It would be dependant on the particular religion of the person.
I say this because, in a certain large store, I chose to sit on a bench next to a young Muslim female, whilst waiting for my wife to go through the checkout.
In that same checkout queue there was a more elderly Muslim female, who on spotting me sitting next to the younger person, rushed out of the queue and came over to her to angrily tear a strip off the young girl and told her to remove herself from the bench.
She was then forced to stand a distance away while what I presumed was her mother, had gone through the checkout.