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Pamela Geller, Breitbart: Why Would a Devout Muslim Want to Work at Abercrombie and Fitch?

Jun 3, 2015 10:36 am By Robert Spencer

samantha-elaufIt is a sad indication of the deep trouble that we are in that the Supreme Court would consider this case and not ponder even for a moment about the implications. It was so “easy” for Scalia because he never stopped to ask himself why a pious Muslima would want to work in a clothing company like Abercrombie & Fitch. He should have. We will all be paying for a long time for the short-sightedness of Scalia and his colleagues.

A good question that no one is asking: “Why Would a Devout Muslim Want to Work at Abercrombie and Fitch?,” by Pamela Geller, Breitbart, June 2, 2015:

The Supreme Court ruled Monday in favor of Samantha Elauf, a Muslim woman who sued for discrimination after not being hired by Abercrombie & Fitch, because her insistence on wearing the Muslim hijab conflicted with their dress code.

Justice Antonin Scalia said of the 8-1 ruling, “This is really easy” – but neither he nor the Justices who voted with him showed any indication of realizing what was really at stake in this case.

She won an award of $20,000 in 2011, but a Court of Appeals overturned that, with the judge explaining: “Ms. Elauf never informed Abercrombie before its hiring decision that she wore her head scarf, or ‘hijab,’ for religious reasons.” The Supremes should have taken the hint. They didn’t.

Why didn’t she? It wasn’t inconsequential, at least not for her. She spent the ensuing years suing, losing, suing again, appealing until her case reached the highest court in the land. So why didn’t she mention it? What was her agenda? That is perfectly clear now.

I ask you: what devout Muslim girl would want to work for a firm that peddles erotic, sexy clothes and soft-porn images? Their catalogue is not allowed in many homes. Many parents have rightly judged that it is too racy for their teenage daughters. So what is the pious hijabed one Samantha Elauf doing wanting a job like that?

It was all a set up. Why would Elauf want to work there? In order to force another major American business to accommodate Islamic norms – and this time, that sinister agenda won the aid of the United States Supreme Court.

It is more than suspect that this devout Muslim woman sought a career at Abercrombie & Fitch. Abercrombie & Fitch’s images in its advertising are soft porn. Why doesn’t Samantha Elauf apply for a job modeling for Larry Flynt’s magazine?

What she sought was a lawsuit — litigation jihad, as evidenced by the participation of the Hamas-tied Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), designated a terror organization by the United Arab Emirates, in her suit.

Hamas-CAIR pursues these “discrimination” lawsuits all around the country, pressing American workplaces to change the way they operate to accommodate Islamic norms. The goal is to establish and reinforce the principle that anywhere American cultural mores conflict with sharia, it is Americanism that has to give way. 

This is exactly the pattern that I meticulously document in my must-read primer, Stop the Islamization of America.

And now the Supreme Court’s decision will ensure that there will be many more such cases, just as the mainstream media’s refusal to run Muhammad cartoons because Muslims kill over them only ensures that there will be more violent threats, more bloody demands for submission. Demands for accommodation result in…more demands.

Take, for example, the Hertz company. Hertz bent over backwards to accommodate its Muslim workers: they have prayer rooms, prayer times, etc. They just didn’t want the Muslim workers leaving work to pray outside of scheduled break times. Mind you, they could easily pray before or after work, but no. This imposes Islam on everyone else – just as Samantha Elauf wanted to do at Abercrombie & Fitch by demanding that they change their dress code and give up their right to set the public tone of their own company. After the initial surrender on Hertz’s part, Muslim workers began suing Hertz, charging “Islamophobia.”

Star Transport was sued for rightfully terminating two Muslims who refused to do their job. If these Muslim truck drivers didn’t want to deliver alcohol, then they shouldn’t have taken a job in which part of their duties would be to deliver alcohol. It’s that simple.

A Muslim woman sued Children’s Hospital Boston after being fired for refusing to get a flu shot. If you don’t want to take the necessary steps to work in a hospital and adhere to the rules to insure the health of the public at large, then don’t work in a children’s hospital.

A New Mexico Muslima sued Planet Fitness over its headgear safety rules. Obviously headgear is prohibited in this gym because it presents a safety hazard. But people’s safety be damned. This suit mirrored the melee that ensued at a New York Playland Park when park officials adhered to their safety rules in order to keep park attendees free from harm. Muslim visitors got angry that the park was enforcing its ban on headgear by prohibiting the women from wearing their traditional head coverings on some rides.

A Muslim woman who worked as a hostess at a Disneyland restaurant sued Disney. Like Elauf, Imane Boudlal wore the hijab, but the garment violated Disney’s dress code. Disney offered up a compromise hat for her to wear, but Boudlal refused, of course. It wasn’t about hijab; otherwise the cute cowboy hat that Disneyland offered Boudlal would have been fine (everyone on the floor at Disney wears costumes). It was about imposing Islam on the secular marketplace.

You’ll notice, big companies are always targeted. Hertz, Heinz, Target, Wal-Mart, Disney, and now Abercrombie & Fitch. Why? To set precedents.

And in all these cases, the company bent over backwards to accommodate these demands. But that’s always taken as a sign of weakness, and accommodation gives way to more demands.

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  1. Jaladhi says

    Jun 3, 2015 at 10:46 am

    This is nothing but stealth jihad by all those pious Muslims. These people never give up, they will employ all tactics to harass us at the very least and going through peaceful stealth jihad and up to final violent jihad.

    But the dumb people like those in our country and in SCOTUS can’t see it!!

    • underbed cat says

      Jun 4, 2015 at 1:27 pm

      SCOTUS can you define this?

  2. Jay Boo says

    Jun 3, 2015 at 10:48 am

    (Full of Allah — syndrome)

    Muslims resent it when others don’t acknowledge Allah as the one true god.
    They are even claim to be offended.
    Yet, they routinely assault all other religions with their offensive “No god but Allah” slur.
    The Muzzie man wearing an organ-grinder monkey cap with complimentary man-dress or the Muslimah flaunting her “purity” under a hijab knows all too well that behind each demure facial expression hides a smirk full of smug self-righteous arrogance.

    Whatever becomes contaminated by Muhammad’s Franken-Allah Abomination either dies or slowly rots inside. When Muslims fill themselves up with Allah, should we really be surprised that they might stink?

  3. Agent of Liberty says

    Jun 3, 2015 at 11:05 am

    I have no confidence left in our supreme court! They are all gutless, unpatriotic, and drunk with their own power! They’re going to regret this decision!

    • mortimer says

      Jun 3, 2015 at 11:41 am

      They are establishing the religion of Islam as the official US religion.

    • William says

      Jun 3, 2015 at 2:29 pm

      When will the day come when the Supreme Court no longer is recognized as the final arbiter of the Constitution? Who was it that gave them that authority? It is not in the Constitution. When will most stop relying on that dead body to proclaim what is constitutional and what is not? Can you imagine a USA without the Supreme Court giving final approval of what is constitutional or not? It may surprisingly be not a bad scheme.

  4. Susan says

    Jun 3, 2015 at 11:15 am

    So when little miss deception went on her job interview, was she wearing a rag over her head? If not then this case should be challenged. If she is so modest that she can not go without her rag why not wear on all occasions. If she was wearing it when interviewed then her new employers are idiots for hiring her.

    • mortimer says

      Jun 3, 2015 at 11:21 am

      IT WAS A SETUP and a STING OPERATION to go after money. Period.

      She plotted and conspired to get rich quick.

      Despicable. Jizzya. Plundering. Mohammed’s example. Normative Islam.

      Islam is a sick conspiracy of sick people.

    • Jae M says

      Jun 4, 2015 at 7:10 pm

      The article says, “Ms. Elauf never informed Abercrombie before its hiring decision that she wore her head scarf, or ‘hijab,’ for religious reasons.”
      I think companies will need to ask way more questions in interviews now like:

      Are you required to wear any type of specific clothing while working here?

      Is there any item or product you are not able to handle or be around such as alcohol, pork products or other products?

      Do you require this company to accommodate any religious obligations by providing space or time for you?

      Have it signed on paper that no special treatment is required before you hire someone. That should cut our the lawsuits.

  5. TheBuffster says

    Jun 3, 2015 at 11:38 am

    I wonder what would have happened if A&F had hired her right off the bat?

    Would she have gone to work there?

    • Angemon says

      Jun 3, 2015 at 1:04 pm

      I suspect she would, and she’d create a hostile work environment, and make increasingly “special accommodation” demands until she was given the boot, which would be when she would sue for discrimination.

      • particolor says

        Jun 4, 2015 at 7:32 am

        It was planned right down to the last detail !!

  6. PRODOS says

    Jun 3, 2015 at 12:34 pm

    The Supreme Court’s decision and reasoning can be read here:

    http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/14pdf/14-86_p86b.pdf

    Clarence Thomas (on the 16th page of the PDF) provides a dissenting opinion which (as usual) demonstrates superior reasoning.

    Excerpt:

    // I would hold that Abercrombie’s conduct did not constitute “intentional discrimination.” Abercrombie refused to create an exception to its neutral Look Policy for Samantha Elauf ’s religious practice of wearing a headscarf … Elauf received the same treatment from Abercrombie as any other applicant who appeared unable to comply with the company’s Look Policy … the majority expands the meaning of “intentional discrimination” to include a refusal to give a religious applicant “favored treatment.” … But contrary to the majority’s assumption, this novel theory of discrimination is not commanded by the relevant statutory text. //

    It’s interesting that Clarence Thomas does identify that his colleagues have in fact given the Muslim lady “preferential treatment” and undermined (expanded) the idea of discrimination.

    Everything about Islam is about undermining the Kafir and Jihading us into submitting to its nihilism.

    • Arthur says

      Jun 3, 2015 at 11:20 pm

      Thank you PRODOS for the factual details.

  7. cs says

    Jun 3, 2015 at 5:32 pm

    Pam nailed nicely this one.

  8. Dave J says

    Jun 3, 2015 at 5:45 pm

    While it is likely that this was putup to push the Islamic dress code onto an Employer, I think it is unfair to question her seeking the job. We don’t know how pious or not she was. Apparently she appeared for the interview in tee shirt and jeans, which met the AF dress code, but was wearing a hajib, which did not (nor would any variety of other headgear, including a backwards baseball cap). The dress code is available to applicants in advance, presumably.

    So they didn’t hire her. They should have stuck to their guns on principle, but instead they buckled and changed the dress code. Jihad wins another small battle.

  9. TheOPINIONATOR says

    Jun 3, 2015 at 6:24 pm

    Seems to me the hijab is a throwback to many centuries past and Middle Eastern countries that did not have written laws to protect women from attacks by men. Western nations all have such laws thus the hijab is no longer necessary and should not be compulsory, of course, to expect Muslims to get into the right century is undoubtedly a “pipe dream”

  10. somehistory says

    Jun 3, 2015 at 8:22 pm

    Anyone…except eight people selected to *judge*…can see that she did what she did in order to sue; not just for the money and the attention, but more importantly, to advance islam, tenets of satan, and the worship thereof.

    Several years ago, I worked for quite some time for a very, very large company. There was a loose dress policy, but no flip flops and a couple of other things not allowed. We could, and many did, wear hats or other things on the head. Having very unruly hair, I wore a baseball cap…no logo allowed. Then, we got a new site manager and he sent out a memo that outlined *new* policies at his site only…not business wide. His memo said, “Nothing on the head.”
    I went to him with my *request* due to my hair problem. He listened nicely and then said, “No. No one can wear anything on the head, even though I sympathize with your problem.”
    Not long after, I passed a muslim girl…flip flops flopping and scarf flapping about as she walked…in the department where I worked. She looked like she had just stepped out of a harem in Baghdad.
    She was the only person at the site where nearly a thousand people worked to wear headgear. There was a muslim man who was given *permission* to go out from work every day…several times…to put down his rug and do deep bending exercises. His beard was very, very long. That too was a special accommodation.
    All for the beast to control *buying and selling* and to show those who refuse to worship satan just how little we count.
    (Revelation 13)

    • rab says

      Jun 4, 2015 at 9:58 pm

      Indeed! In the advancement of pislam, anything goes. Even to spill another mudslime’s blood. There was a go-cart raceway, that had rules for the protection of the customers. The mudslimes decided to pay them a visit. burkas/niqjb et all. Following the lawsuit, they were allowed to enter. Needless to say, one long scarf got caught in the drive system. I do believe that a serious injury or death resulted. The following lawsuit etc closed the track down.
      As long as it is in the advancement of pislam, the lives of anyone and everyone is halal.

  11. ANDREW SAPIA says

    Jun 3, 2015 at 11:10 pm

    So they have to hire an old man with man boobs regardless of the fact that the have a look, a college preppy look that is inseparable from their business model. Hooters has to hire flat chested woman, or transgendered men. The whole point of going to hooters is to see hooters and be served by a girls with large hooters. This is just crazy!

  12. Arthur says

    Jun 3, 2015 at 11:26 pm

    Yes, now we should have some Jains apply to work on the kill floor of a slaughterhouse and then refuse to kill animals because it is against their religion. THAT should head to the Supreme Court so we can get a ruling on religious accommodation which is completely incompatible with the duties of a job. What could the outcome be? A free pension for every Jain sponsored by the meat packing industry?? I suspect the Supreme Court would be able to rule against the hypothetical Jains, leaving open the question of where the line gets drawn for religious accommodation and which case represents precedent.

  13. Greg Zotta says

    Jun 4, 2015 at 4:10 am

    Creeping Sharia! The Muslim Brotherhood calls for a “Civilization-Jihadist Process,” in which they would destroy the Western civilization from within. Radical Muslims believe the infidels will have to convert to Islam, be enslaved or be killed. Muslims can lie to the infidel to promote Islam. They state, we do not want to democratize Islam, we want to Islamize democracy. That is what we want. Islam is a political and military system masquerading as a religion.

  14. Greg Zotta says

    Jun 4, 2015 at 4:10 am

    “This certainly is consistent with the president’s (Hussein Obama) view that the American people hold very dear to the First Amendment right to freedom of religion and protect that right to observe that religion, to practice that religion and to not be discriminated against because of the way in which they observe their religion is an important American value, one that appears to have been upheld by the Supreme Court just yesterday,” Unless, of course, that religion happens to be Christianity. Hussein Obama agrees with the Supreme Court that businesses must make accommodations for Muslims,but not necessarily Christians, as the Christian bakers found out by not making a gay wedding cake.

  15. Nohj Yelruf says

    Jun 4, 2015 at 5:34 am

    It is blatantly obvious to me and all other level headed people in this world that Islam have their own contorted rule book, if they are unable to find the answer through deviation then the will resort to their basic fall back:

    READ AND WEEP!!!

    Taqiyya, Islam’s information war (Of Lying!!!)
    Author unknown to the public for obvious reasons:
    This is important to understand Islamic phraseology, save it, translate it, tell your friends and family, tell them what ‘Taqiyya’ is. Every time you hear a Muslim say “I am not a terrorist,” “I am a moderate,” “terrorism is un-Islamic.”
    The skilful use of ‘taqiyya and kitman’ was often a matter of life and death against enemies; it is also a matter of life and death to many contemporary Islamic terrorists. As so often in the history of Islam, a theological doctrine became operational.
    During the Spanish inquisition, Sunni Moriscos attended mass and returned home to wash their hands of the ‘holy water’. In operational terms, ‘taqiyya and kitman’ allowed the ‘mujahadeen’ to assume whatever identity was necessary to fulfil their mission; they had doctrinal and theological and later jurisprudential sanction to pretend to be Jews or Christians to gain access to Christian and Jewish targets: ‘the mujahadeen can take the shape of Islam’s enemy’.
    Taqiyya is common to both Shiite and Sunni Muslim discourse and has significant implications for understanding Islamic fundamentalism and terrorist operations. The theory and practice of counter terrorism would be counter productive, indeed pointless, and even harmful, without reference to ‘taqiyya and kitman’ and the crucial role of deception ranging from Islamic jurisprudence to Al Qaeda training manuals, which carry detailed instructions on the use of deception by terrorists in Western target countries.
    According to Christian ethics lying is a sin; In Islamic jurisprudence and theology, the use of ‘taqiyya’ against the unbelievers is regarded as a virtue and indeed a religious duty.
    “Verily the most honourable of you in the sight of God is the most pious among you; verily, God is knowing, aware!” Koran 49:13
    Shi’a interpret the phrase above as “he among you who exercises Taqiyya most”
    Like many Islamic concepts taqiyya and kitman were formed within the context of the Arab Islamic matrix of tribalism, expansionary warfare and conflict. Taqiyya has been used by Muslims since the 7th century to confuse and split ‘the enemy’. A favoured tactic was ‘deceptive triangulation’; to persuade the enemy that jihad was not aimed at them but at another enemy. Another tactic was to deny that there was jihad at all. The fate for such faulty assessments by the target was death.
    The full transcript of the above article can be found at:
    http://www.albatrus.org/english/religions/islam/taqiyya.htm

    Remember one very important point, Muslims use ‘Taqiyya’ between different sects of Islam, so understand they will not hesitate to use it against all ‘non believers’.

  16. Joe Shmo says

    Jun 4, 2015 at 7:52 am

    I hate the Hijab. I hate the way it implies that all men are rapists that can’t control themselves.

    Btw The American Supreme Court has historically gotten it wrong a lot of the time. As a body they have been far too political.

  17. Dean Hyatt says

    Jun 4, 2015 at 12:37 pm

    As Pamela identifies it is “Americanism” that is under attack, but the law and the courts have already done the biggest part of that destruction already. The much vaunted Civil Rights Law went too far when it attacked and destroyed an individual’s right to associate with whomever he or she pleases. This is fundamental to one’s right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. It should have been enough to reverse the discriminatory Jim Crow laws, which were State mandates, but unfortunately it didn’t stop there. Every person on their private property, which includes every business, should be able to choose who they do and do not want to associate with, no matter how much we disagree with their choices.

  18. xxxChurch100 says

    Jun 4, 2015 at 6:51 pm

    I am going to start wearing the men’s hijab .. the balaclava ….
    I work in a school science Dept … with access to all kinds of chemicals and compounds .
    If the staff fear and complain about my new standard of head covering and jihad utterances whilst I am mixing up these chemical , I am going to sue my employer !

    Early retirement with a fat payout .

    It all makes perfect sense now .

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