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Defense department agrees to allow Muslim cadets to wear hijabs
orlandosentinel.com ^ | Dec. 22, 2011 | jeff kunerth

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 Zawity’s 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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To: Conservative Infidel

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.


21 posted on 12/24/2011 5:14:01 AM PST by caww
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To: Georgia Girl 2
The answer is after 2012 when BO takes his second term and expands the long military traditon of allowing hijabs with service wear.
22 posted on 12/24/2011 5:45:07 AM PST by WorkingClassFilth (Soon to be a man without a country.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
for a Sikh, it truly IS part of their religion(not that i approve of letting the wear it in the US military either), but NOWHERE does it say in the koran the headjob must be worn!!!!
23 posted on 12/24/2011 6:12:28 AM PST by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Put a fork in the USA. We’re done.


24 posted on 12/24/2011 6:27:47 AM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Conservative Infidel

Those are all the right questions. For answers you can expect either crickets or to be denounced as a racist.


25 posted on 12/24/2011 6:32:07 AM PST by Yardstick
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To: WorkingClassFilth

“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.


26 posted on 12/24/2011 7:09:38 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

politically correctness gone crazy.... WTF


27 posted on 12/24/2011 7:39:27 AM PST by ncfool (The new USSA - United Socialist States of AmeriKa. Welcome to Obummers world or Obamaville USSA.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

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.


28 posted on 12/24/2011 7:43:06 AM PST by Ironfocus (Unseat the Looter-in-Chief)
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To: henbane

The blond has a look that says “I’ll shoot yer Huevos off!”.


29 posted on 12/24/2011 8:08:54 AM PST by dljordan ("Tyranny, like Hell, is not easily conquered.")
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To: Free ThinkerNY; SunkenCiv; neverdem; decimon
Next step: Holder and various other Communist and/or Muslim infiltrees to propagate military arms to many other people who will "blend in" via hijabs. And in this "security conscious"-yet-PC world (think: anyone but white heterosexuals and/or Christians), what better way to have a group "just as strong, just as numerous, just as well-funded" ?

Tin-Foil Food for thought.

g_w

30 posted on 12/24/2011 8:36:01 AM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: grey_whiskers; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; ...

Yeah, as if Muzzies will fight for this country.


31 posted on 12/24/2011 9:09:18 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Merry Christmas, Happy New Year! May 2013 be even Happier!)
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To: grey_whiskers; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; ...

Yeah, as if Muzzies will fight for this country. Thanks grey_whiskers.


32 posted on 12/24/2011 9:09:39 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Merry Christmas, Happy New Year! May 2013 be even Happier!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

“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


33 posted on 12/25/2011 8:39:30 PM PST by garjog
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