cook a sound she needed to wear a headscarf and a headscarf signify that it was a religious headscarf and she figured it was a religious headscarf but the tenth circuit said that wasn't sufficient. what was needed was actual knowledge. our position is when you assume when it signifies to you that a religious accommodation that is sufficient notice for an employer to be on notice. >> does that subject or is it relevant meaning the issue is whether they fail to hire her because of the religious practice whether the person thinks it is the issue. that is why -- >> that is what makes this a particularly straightforward case. what the employer did here was out upon the assumption that ms. elauf needed to wear the headscarf and it didn't have sufficient knowledge or certainty to have initiated the accommodation process that congress wanted in section 2000e. >> i think there is substantial argument that the employee does not dimension this first but why did we import the term understand instead of no? >> treatment case the whole idea is it was because of religion. why are you making is so co

maybe she was having a bad hair day and she comes in with a headscarf. but she didn't have any religious reason for doing it. would you reject or for that? no. the reason she was rejected is because you assumed that she was going to do this every day. the only reason why she would do it everyday is because she had a religious reason. >> justice, that has not been the theory of this case. if it had been there would have been ways that they could have tried to prove that they could have western johnson specifically. what would they have done if someone would have come in wearing a ball cap. they could have tried to get compared of evidence. and for the theory which had every opportunity to prove had not been -- >> title vii doesn't require baseball caps, but it does require religious practices and so as i said is not just based on what they do. it is a discrete requirement. >> as i understood it is that abercrombie only didn't hire this person because the headscarf was religious and what i'm suggesting is that they might well not have hired anyone who walk

it was a religious headscarf and she figured it was a religious headscarf.tual knowledge. our position is when you assume when it signifies to you that a religious accommodation is needed that a sufficient notice for an employer to be on notice. >> does that's subjective used relevant meaning the issue is whether they fail to hire her because of her religious practice? >> whether the person thinks it is is the issue. and that is why it happened. >> we think that is what makes this a straightforward case. what the employer did here was act upon the assumption that ms. elauf needed to wear the headscarf for religious reasons and later claimed refuge that it didn't have sufficient knowledge or certainty that it initiated the accommodation process that congress wanted in section 2000. .. this is that what is needed is something approaching certainty. >> if yours is less uncertainty how much less than certainty is that? i say that i don't honestly know. you know it's two out of three. is that sufficient? >> i think the best way to answer this question, the answer

she two her headscarf to her job interview and questioning the lawyer for the company the justice alito said you assumed she was going to do tv day and the only reason -- it every day and the only reason would be because she had a religious reason. the company argued store managers are not allowed to ask about religion during an interview and if the court sides with the plaintiff, it could actually make discrimination worse. >> what you're really asking business owners across the country to profile applicants and employees. >> reporter: the justice scalia seemed open to the argument while several other justices seemed to side with elaf. >> abercrombie & fitch has changed its policy and laf found a job as merchandise -- and elaf found a job as merchandising manager for outdoor outfitters. >>> the senate will move forward on a clean bill to fund the department of homeland security. the measure would not include language that guts president obama's executive order on immigration. if and when the senate passes the bill, it would move to the house where conservatives are pushing back against

then i learned i was not hired by ember kolbe because i wear headscarf, which is a symbol of modestyn my muslim faith. this was shocking to me. i am great for to the doc for looking into my complaint and take him religious determination case to the courts. i'm not only standing up for myself, but for all people who wish to it here to their fate while at work. >> documents from edward snowden have revealed the canadian government is dashing millions of citizen females under a massive cyber security operation revealed jointly by the cbc and the intercept. canada monitored visits to government websites and collected e-mails to the government at a rate of 400,000 per day. sometimes keeping the data for years. mexico has condemned the police killing of an unarmed mexican immigrant in texas. two weeks after another such killing sparked protest in washington state to mexican authorities say police in grapevine, texas violated a decades-old treaty by waiting for days to inform them of the killing of ruben garcia. police say they shot garcia during a traffic stop after he defied orders to hal

woman shez was turned down for a job in 2008 because she showed up at her job interview wearina b headscarf. the case explores when an employer mus take steps to accommod the religious beliefs of a worker or a job applican abercromh since changed its policy on headscarfs and settling similar lawsuits elsewher ts mor we are hearing from the mother whose son was shot and killed along with american sniper chris kyle. a jury convicted eddie routh of murderg chris kyle and chad littlefid at a gun range in texas. chris kyle's autobiogr was turned into a hit movie "america ch littlefield waited to talk about their son to help their case. look out for us because we t because we didn't want to jeopardize e so now it we wantno talk about our prec >> littlefield's mother says during a change of venue request, they had to remind the court that two people were killed that night. not many people knew their son chad and she says that >>> george zimmerman will not be going back to court for killing trayvo thr years ago. the u.s. just it department now says there's not justify eviden to sue him in a civil r

this case began several years ago and abercrombie since abandoned their no headscarf policy. news, new york. >> all the way to the supreme court. a lot of people are watching this to see what role religion can play in the work force and clearly they weighed in on this. >> long, wide-reaching implications there. >>> also coming up, a story we're trying to figure out around here. what does a staff sergeant of the u.s. army have a common with an 11-year-old girl? how about this a growing fascination that grown men have with these pastel painted talking ponies. >> you are new to them, right? >> very new. >> ahead in the next half hour, could these bone-chilling temperatures actually help us lose weight? we are checking out the latest diet craze called cold dieting. you are watching "world news now." >> announcer: "world news now" continues after this from our abc statio >>> there are two demographic groups that could possibly be less alike. grown up manly men from their 20s to middle age and pre-teen girls. >> however, increasingly they have one thing in common "my little pony."

whether clothing retailer abercrombie & fitch discriminated against a muslim woman because she wore a headscarf.

& fitch admits that they understood she is wearing the headscarf because of her religious practice.hey turned her down because they said you do not fit with our look and did she did -- did she have to say, i wear this because i'm a muslim? matt: why would she have to say that if they knew it already? >> they definitely know it. they admit they knew it. >> that is correct. unless you put the burden on the job applicant, you will have too many cases where the employer is guessing about the situation that is not a fair burden. stephanie: but they she was were in the head scarf and the burden is on them? >> the lower court said that because the job applicant failed to say to the job interviewer, i am wearing this because i muslim because of that, she loses in the employer wins. that is what the chamber of commerce and all the big as this is want to preserve. >> could one make the argument abercrombie & fitch could say we have this look, this is how we sell product. >> there is not a dispute about that. you could not come in here and wear t-shirts and expect bloomberg to come in here. >>

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so from a french perspective, if some magically laws restricting whether it's wearing headscarfs or whether it's speaking your mind regardless of how hateful

so from a french perspective, if some magically laws restricting whether it's wearing headscarfs or whether it's speaking your mind regardless of how hateful and obnoxious the words were, would that make it better or worse in the short term, medium term and long term and how realistic is it to even think policymakers would move in the direction of less restriction? >> i don't think we're really discussing or considering more limitations to free speech. as floyd abraham said we already have legislation in place which -- for historical reason. the holocaust took place on our continent. nazis was on the european continent. so this was different from leer. this there is consensus on these laws generally. so nobody thinks seriously that in france we're going to have laws prohibiting or limiting the way you can draw the mohammed or mock such religion or the other one. i don't think this is being considered at this stage. what may happen -- and what is already happening i think is that we all will be a bit more cautious. we already saw that in 2006 when those cartoons were first published in denma

i used to be able to go out on the street wearing jeans and without a headscarf, she said. her why she couldn't do that now. the saudi, rereplied, immediately. a preference to the saudi-funded madrasahs. the taliban came out of those madrasahs just as a great many of the isis criminal s do now. >> and they got her. they killed her. >> they killed her. mike? >> joe where does this reluctance, do you think, comes from where that the president of the united states seemingly will not call this what it is what islamic radicalism, what leaders around the world are doing? does it have anything to do with -- this is not coming from the state department. my understanding is the state department internally is much stronger against this than is the white house. where does it come from within the white house? >> well, i think it comes from the nsc which is pretty weak and also there are a group of people, both at the state department and at the nsc who are -- who are humanitarians and human rights advocates. >> why wouldn't they be the most mad? >> they're mad at general cc because he

from the first time they arrived having seen my mom who also wears the headscarf, they had been harassedhas one parking spot. the neighbor an adjacent one and a neighbor's adjacent to that and the neighbor told him do not park in that visitor's parking slot because that belongs to my wife. they respected it. but what happens when you have friends visiting? they park in a visitors' parking spot. they continued receiving this kind of harassment with guns being -- the gun being flashed under his shirt. it reached the point where yusor texted as sannrazan, sent it asking, please tell my roommate to your roommate to move because this neighbor is bothering me. this prompted the roommate to call the apartment complex management who told them a visitor spot is a visitor spot. no one can claim it. regardless they avoided parking in that spot. his friends and family know not to park in that spot. deah went to the extend printing out all the spots and highlighting which were visiting parking spots that can be parked in avoiding the win that the neighbor had issues with him parking in. that was not