Posted on 12/23/2011 11:17:35 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) announced today that the Department of Defense will begin allowing Muslim and Sikh students who wear an Islamic head scarf (hijab) or a turban to participate in the Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps (JROTC).
We welcome the fact that Muslim and Sikh students nationwide will now be able to participate fully in JROTC leadership activities while maintaining their religious beliefs and practices, said CAIR National Executive Director Nihad Awad.
In October, the Washington-based Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization wrote to Defense Secretary Leon Panetta after a 14-year-old Muslim student at Ravenwood High School in Brentwood, Tenn., was forced to transfer out of a JROTC class when her commanding officers told her she could not wear hijab while marching in the September homecoming parade.
CAIR requested constitutionally-protected religious accommodations for the girl and for future Muslim JROTC participants.
In a Dec. 19 letter sent to CAIR, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army Larry Stubblefield wrote:
I have been asked to respond on behalf of the Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta to your October 13, 2011 letter concerning Miss Demin Zawitys request to wear a religious head covering (hijab) while participating in an Army Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (JROTC) event at Ravenwood High School.
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All part and parcel of the Islamic agenda to “transform” the face of America into something it’s not....Islamification of the USA is a go...with little if any resistance by any of our leaders.
Put a fork in the USA. We’re done.
Those are all the right questions. For answers you can expect either crickets or to be denounced as a racist.
“The answer is after 2012 when BO takes his second term and expands the long military traditon of allowing hijabs with service wear.”
Yes since we have always been a Muslim nation.
politically correctness gone crazy.... WTF
This is beyond outrageous. Muslims may make their religion part of the uniform, but private citizens and soldiers may not take Bibles into Walter Reed hospital?
We are already under sharia law, it seems.
The blond has a look that says “I’ll shoot yer Huevos off!”.
Tin-Foil Food for thought.
g_w
Yeah, as if Muzzies will fight for this country.
Yeah, as if Muzzies will fight for this country. Thanks grey_whiskers.
“Stealth jihadis use political, cultural, societal, religious, intellectual tools; violent jihadis use violence,” Gingrich said. “But in fact they’re both engaged in jihad and they’re both seeking to impose the same end state, which is to replace Western civilization with a radical imposition of Sharia.”
Newt Gingrich http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/268497/20111216/newt-gingrich-s-sharia-law-stance-raises.htm
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