Muslim Company Forcing Christian Employees to Wear Headscarfs

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A Muslim-owned arts-and-crafts store in Dearborn, Michigan is forcing its female Christian employees to wear traditional Islamic headscarves while on the job.

According to local reports, Khilāf Krafts began requiring its eight female employees to wear hijabs last week, following the U.S. Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby, which gave religious rights to family-owned businesses.

Although five women working for the company are Muslims, the remaining three are practicing Christians. The company has threatened to fire any Christian woman who does not comply.

“My boss came in last Tuesday with a Koran in his hand and told us we were dressed like harlots,” says Karen Anderson, 28, a five year veteran of the company, “He gave us each a hijab and said if we didn’t wear it we’d be unemployed.

“I’m a strong believer in Jesus Christ. But my husband passed a few years ago and I need this job to support my kids. I don’t really have a choice. I have to wear it.”

The Supreme Court’s majority opinion in the Hobby Lobby case allowed the Christian-owned retail chain to opt out of a federal law requiring employers to give female employees contraceptive coverage.

Although praised by conservative Christians, liberals fret that the decision will allow companies with devout owners of any faith to opt out of American laws they simply don’t like.

In her dissent Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg expressed similar fears. “Approving some religious claims while deeming others unworthy of accommodation could be 'perceived as favoring one religion over another,'….The court, I fear, has ventured into a minefield.” she wrote.

Khilāf Krafts’ new policy has attracted outrage from women’s rights groups and Christian churches around the country. However, owner Khaleed El-Helani says he’s just a business owner practicing his faith.

“If Hobby Lobby can impose its religious beliefs on its employees, why can’t we?” he demands. “Are Christian business owners somehow more important than Muslim business owners?

“I read through the entire Supreme Court decision. I don’t really see what the problem is here. I’m a small, closely held business. I have devout religious beliefs. Why should I be forced to employ people if it violates my religion?

El-Helani also says he plans on cutting off his employees' hands if he catches them stealing, in accordance with Islamic law.

"This is what religious freedom looks like," he explains, "Thanks John Roberts!"
 

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The bible says women should cover their hair.

1 Corinthians 11:5
But every wife who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head, since it is the same as if her head were shaven.

1 Timothy 2:9
Likewise also that women should adorn themselves in respectable apparel, with modesty and self-control, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly attire,

1 Corinthians 11:15
But if a woman has long hair, it is her glory? For her hair is given to her for a covering.
 

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Lol, have you been to Dearborn??

.. there is freedom of choice. Choose not to get money from Muslims.. and u can choose to dresss like you want at ur job.. even dress like a slut if u please.

Or if you dont like ur kids being in a public school that practices Ramadan then put them in another school..... not one that is funded w Islamic tax dollars.

A few times I was kicking it w bytches and they've had to wear a scarf to an event(black muslim events, I d f w arabs like that)... none of them have an issue... some think they look cute w the scarf. If a chick would go w me to a club... then turn around and have an issue respecting an event.... id drop quick.

Most afrocentric chicks dont have an issue... only time I dont ask for the cover up is w dreads, seg twist, Etc.

Plus, religious freedom for small businesses... how u gonna be a slave then complain?
 

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I suppose there is a philosophical difference between affirmatively forcing someone to wear a headscarf as opposed to just refusing to provide certain types of contraception.

But while I agree that Hobby Lobby was decided correctly given the current state of the law, I think RFRA as a whole is unconstitutional, so IDGAF.
 
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