Posted on 01/10/2015 4:10:56 PM PST by Steelfish
Muslim Sailor Sues For Right To Reenlist And Wear Beard
Jonathan Berts was denied permission to reenlist in the Navy after his request to wear a beard in conformance with his religion was denied, according to his lawsuit. (Navy Times) By TONY PERRY His beard and religious beliefs got him booted from Navy, Muslim sailor says in lawsuit A Muslim sailor has filed a federal lawsuit asserting that he was illegally denied the right to reenlist because he wears a beard in accordance with his religious beliefs.
The lawsuit, filed last month, seeks reenlistment rights for Jonathan Berts, 31, who served nine years on active duty but was denied reenlistment in 2012 after his request to wear a beard was rejected.
Berts, an African American and native of San Francisco, served on the dock landing ship Fort McHenry at Whidbey Island, Wash., and with a beachmaster unit in Coronado before being assigned as a military history and physical education instructor at the Navy training site at Great Lakes, Ill.
At Great Lakes, he was allegedly subjected to a “barrage of derogatory terms, anti-Islamic slurs, and inappropriate lines of questions about his religious beliefs and loyalty to the United States,” according to the lawsuit.
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You volunteer to join the military. You follow their rules....not yours.
“At Great Lakes, he was allegedly subjected to a “barrage of derogatory terms, anti-Islamic slurs, and inappropriate lines of questions about his religious beliefs and loyalty to the United States,”
Good.
Throw the boy out. Obviously, he isn’t interested in being in the military. He can grow his beard as a civilian. BTW: The military already went through the beard and turban bull**** back in the 70s. It didn’t work out then either.
Where do I go to get standing to sue to send the Navy to the shores of Tripoli (and Saudi Arabia) to drive the muzzies back into the desert?
When you pledge to Aica....you leave your country behind. It’s not a religious requirement...it’s a “muslim state” requirement.
pop CS gas..give him a mask..if it seals with his beard...he’s in..
All us old timers remember our first time in the gas chamber right? (cough cough)
ask him which muslim hell hole he’d be most comfortable being sent to...and DO SO..
Maybe the Barbary Coast Pirates are recruiting.
Another Berghahl to go AWOL, for whom they paid millions in ransom to Taliban?
Me! Me! Me! Me! Me! This should be about me!
Obama has already reversed President and Army veteran, Reagan’s decision on the Sikhs, whose activists in the military have been fighting to wear beards and turbans, this is a done deal.
Reagan isn’t president anymore, the Sikhs and the Muslims won.
Hack Hack Yes Hack Hack!
and drop in an old T-6 chute!
If chaplains can’t talk about Christ and the Cross, the Muslims can’t bring their religion in, either.
Oh, yeah.
Enough tears, snot and joy to last a lifetime.
The Sihk activists already made sure they can.
Moslem men should never shave their beards and the US military should refuse to enlist men who insist on keeping beards. There are sensible military reasons why beards are forbidden for the foot soldiers. It goes back past the Greeks. In hand-to-hand fighting beards are dangerous to the wearers.
Throw the boy out. Out of the country. With prejudice.
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