Jedi vs Tesco

This story is a week old but well worth a mention. Basically a bloke who is a follower of the Jedi religion, apparently he founded the international church of jedism, was asked to remove his Jedi hood when shopping in Tesco in Bangor. He accused them of religious discrimination. This prompted a lovely response from Tesco which I have pasted below:

Tesco said: "He hasn't been banned. Jedis are very welcome to shop in our stores although we would ask them to remove their hoods.

"Obi-Wan Kenobi, Yoda and Luke Skywalker all appeared hoodless without ever going over to the Dark Side and we are only aware of the Emperor as one who never removed his hood.

"If Jedi walk around our stores with their hoods on, they'll miss lots of special offers."

Amusing as this all is, and the statement from Tesco is very cleverly done, it does raise the question would Tesco ask a nun to remove her wimple or a Muslim woman the hijab? And if a Tesco store did would their head office issue a response that delved into interpretations of Islam or Christianity. I think not, they wouldn't dare. In the UK religion is either something to laugh about or steer clear of.

This rule is clearly sparked by Tesco not wanting "hoodies" in their shops. So they don't want kids in hoods in their shops. That in its self I have issues with, why can't kids wear hoods if they want to, but I'm not going to bang on about this. Tesco really should be consistent in their approach either ban all head gear that can obscure the face or find better ways to tackle kids hanging about shops.