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Islamic law comes to the Phoenix Airport

Score another victory for the stealth jihad: At Phoenix's Sky Harbor International Airport, the janitorial firm GCA Services recently instituted a new uniform that featured pants. But 30 Somali Muslim women who work for GSA Services protested: Up to that point they had been allowed to wear skirts, and they thought that pants offended against the modesty that Islam mandates for women. With help from the Council on American-Islamic Relations, they won permission to forgo the new uniform and wear skirts on the job.

Traditional Islam enjoins modesty: Muhammad, the prophet of Islam, declared that adult women should never appear in public unless everything except their face and hands was covered. ...

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