Comments on: U.K.: discriminatory for hair salon not to hire headscarf wearer?

By: anon

anon — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 02:34:48 +0000

I think the hairdresser should offer the woman a job if she wears a decorative wig (such as some Jewish, and indeed Muslim, women wear to cover their hair rather than a scarf). A wig which is “ultra-modern, urban, edgy, and funky”.

That should make it clear that it’s not religious discrimination.

By: Deoxy

Deoxy — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:21:55 +0000

You can have freedom AND multiculturalism at the same time! (Indeed, in many regards, that is exactly what you will get with freedom.)

What you can’t have is freedom and GOVERNMENT-IMPOSED multicuturalism (or government-imposed much of anything, really)… of course, partly, that’s because government-imposed “multi-culturalism” is actually mono-culturalism, in that case, the government culture.

By: Anonymous Attorney

Anonymous Attorney — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 10:46:14 +0000

You can have freedom, or you can have multiculturalism, but you can’t have both.

By: kimsch

kimsch — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 01:02:46 +0000

HotAir covered this last November http://hotair.com/archives/2007/11/08/hairdresser-headscarf-lawsuit/ that story linked to a story at This is London (also dated November) http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23420030-details/Hairdresser+sued+for+religious+discrimination/article.do "Ms Noah said today she had attended a total of 25 interviews for hairdressing jobs without success and had decided to take legal action because she had been upset by Ms Desrosiers' comments. She said: "I decided to sue this hairdresser because she upset me the most. I felt so down and got so depressed, I thought if I am not going to defend myself, who is?"