re: #242 reine.de.tout

Answering my own question, now that I’ve thought about it. It is different, in that in the Home Depot incident, there was no religious requirement that the guy wear the pin; whereas in this case, the headscarf is a requirement of her religious beliefs.

I wonder why they have a “no headgear” requirement at this place?

I don’t think that head scarves or for that matter any specific dress code is a requirement of any religion. In the case of Islam and women the word is “modesty”, but modesty is relative and when in the USA…

Bottom line is that most, if not all, religious dress custom is just wearing a uniform that says “look at me, I’m different from you”, or in the case when everyone else does it, “look at me, I’m as pious as you”.

There’s an expression that says “wearing one’s religion on one’s sleeve”, and it is not a compliment.