Dressed to protest

A woman has pulled her son from a school in Kentucky because they allowed two Muslim girls to wear a hijab (a traditional head scarf that covers the hair and neck), but wouldn't allow her son to wear a T-shirt (all T-shirts, except those with the school logo on them are not permitted) with the letters FBI on it, and underneath the words "Firm Believer in Christ."

When she protested in front of the school, some unintended guests stopped by to support her:

School officials and students said Whiteside's protests attracted the attention of the Ku Klux Klan. She was joined outside the school by other men and women, some of whom were clad in white robes and carried Confederate flags and white-supremacist regalia.

Whiteside said she didn't organize any involvement with the KKK, adding that her concerns were being misconstrued by students and school officials as racially driven.

Those protesters told those who backed the school and the two Muslim girls they did not understand because they did not have "white pride." Mrs. Whiteside said she would no longer demonstrate if it was "going to be taken out of context," but continued her push that this was some sort of equal rights abuse.

The article, however, doesn't really present the woman's argument very well, however. Is it an issue of religious tolerance? If so, the hijab is not an endorsement of the Muslim religion, but rather required dress for a holy life. The FBI shirt mentioned does not fall into that category.

Is this an equal rights issue? If so, federal law allows religious garments to trump school dress codes.

And finally, and perhaps most importantly, when will Bill O'Reilly pick this up and run with this as another example of people hating Christians? Maybe I should send him the link?