A European court's ruling about religious clothing could have unfortunate results. -Zia Bella Blair 7th

A European court recently issued a controversial ruling that effectively says employers can legally ban their employees from wearing religious symbols at work. And while the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruling doesn't single out any one religion, the cases in question involved Samira Achbita, a Muslim woman who was fired from her job as a receptionist for wearing a hijab to work, and Asma Bougnaoui, a design engineer at an IT consultancy firm fired after a customer complained about her headscarf. In its ruling, the ECJ stated that companies are allowed to institute in-house rules prohibiting employees from wearing political, philosophical, or religious symbols, in order to project a neutral public image. And while it seems fair enough that a private company may not want to come off as endorsing the political or religious views of its employees, it comes at a time when anti-Muslim sentiment is reaching a fever pitch across Europe and North America.  This ruling, while non-binding, sends a discouraging message that may come off as legitimizing anti-Muslim views. "It will lead to Muslim women being discriminated in the workplace, but also Jewish men who wear kippas, Sikh men who wear turbans, people who wear crosses. It affects all of them, but disproportionately Muslim women," Maryam H'madoun of the Open Society Justice Initiative told The Guardian. This article comes from Upworthiest. I think this is so wrong, no one should be discriminated against no matter what the intention.