Silly Lawsuit of the Day

Awhile back I had a post on obscenity charges that had been brought against an Abercrombie & Fitch store in Virginia Beach. Given the racy advertising that they do, both in stores and in their catalogs, you'd assume the someone who was concerned about morality would want to stay far away from such places. Apparently not:

The Oklahoma chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-OK) announced today that it has filed an EEOC complaint on behalf of a Muslim woman who was allegedly denied employment at an Abercrombie Kids store in that state because of the applicant’s religiously-mandated headscarf, or hijab.

The woman told CAIR-OK that a district manager claimed he could not hire her because her Islamic headscarf “does not fit the Abercrombie image.”

Michelle Malkin adds this:

What, wasn’t the OKC Hooters hiring? This plaintiff is fighting to preserve her modesty while going to work for a company that’s injected more soft porn into our cultural bloodstream than Cinemax?

Next up: the Bada Bing Strip Club gets sued for refusing to let their dancers shimmy inside a burqa.

Of course the plaintiff was going to work for Abercrombie Kids, which is a pretty creepy bit of branding synergy right there. I didn’t even know such a thing existed. But I can see the niche it fills–parents worried that modern society is too sheltering. Some dad’s out there going, “my kids are going to preserve their innocence too long…is there a store where I can get them a head start on that lucrative streetwalker career?”

This is one of those "Iran-Iraq War" kinds of disputes in which you wish both sides could lose, but only after a long, bloody and costly serious of battles.