A federal judge ruled earlier this week that Abercrombie and Fitch violated federal anti-discrimination employment guidelines when it fired an employee who refused to remove her hijab while working at the store. Umme-Hani Khan first brought the suit in 2011 after being fired from her job at Hollister, a subsidiary of Abercrombie & Fitch, in Northern California. "When I was asked to remove my scarf after being hired with it on, I was demoralized and felt unwanted," Khan told the San Mateo County Times that year.

Following the ruling, Khan’s supporters emphasized the importance of this case. "All Americans have a right to reasonable religious accommodation in the workplace, and for Muslim women this includes the right to wear a hijab to work," Zahra Billoo, executive director of the San Francisco Bay Area chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (which filed the suit) told the Washington Post.