{"id":857,"date":"2008-08-08T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-08T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/news\/2008\/08\/muslim-teenager-files-complain.php"},"modified":"2008-08-08T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-08T15:00:00","slug":"muslim-teenager-files-complain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2008\/08\/muslim-teenager-files-complain","title":{"rendered":"Muslim Teenager Files Complaint Against Store Over Head Scarf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TULSA, Okla. (AP) &#8211; A Muslim civil rights group has filed a federal complaint on behalf of a Muslim teenager who alleges she was denied a job at Abercrombie &amp; Fitch because she wears a hijab, or head scarf.<br \/>\nThe complaint, filed at the Oklahoma City office of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, claims that a district manager for the clothing store at Woodland Hills Mall told the girl in late June that the head covering, worn by observant Muslim women, didn&#8217;t fit the chain&#8217;s image.<br \/>\n&#8220;Employers have a clear legal duty to accommodate the religious practices of their workers,&#8221; said Razi Hashmi, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations-Oklahoma, which helped the girl file the complaint. &#8220;To deny someone employment because of apparent religious bias goes against long-standing American traditions of tolerance and inclusion.&#8221;<br \/>\nHashmi declined to name the girl, but said she is younger than 18.<br \/>\nUnder the Civil Rights Act of 1964, employers must reasonably accommodate the religious practices of an employee unless doing so would create an undue hardship for the employer.<br \/>\nA manager at the Tulsa store referred all questions to the corporate office, which didn&#8217;t return calls.<br \/>\nThe EEOC received 2,541 complaints of religious discrimination in fiscal year 2006.<br \/>\n<em>Copyright 2008 The Associated Press. 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