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: Dispatches from the Culture WarsDiscrimination Against Jedis
By Ed Brayton
A guy who claims to be a real Jedi says he was discriminated against by a British supermarket that demanded he remove his hood:
Tesco has been accused of religious discrimination after the company ordered the founder of a Jedi religion to remove his hood or leave a branch of the supermarket in north Wales.Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post...Daniel Jones, founder of the religion inspired by the Star Wars films, says he was humiliated and victimised for his beliefs following the incident at a Tesco store in Bangor.
The 23-year-old, who founded the International Church of Jediism, which has 500,000 followers worldwide, was told the hood flouted store rules.
Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on September 26, 2009 (boomark / email).
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