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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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1 posted on 12/23/2011 11:17:39 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
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To: Free ThinkerNY

CAIR is a terrorist front group. We need to sieze their assets and zip-tie their leadership before throwing them off the pier.


2 posted on 12/23/2011 11:20:49 PM PST by Old Sarge (RIP FReeper Skyraider (1930-2011) - You Are Missed)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Watch out America, how many concessions are we willling to make to appease the Islamists! Remember Sharia is not far behind! WAKE UP!!!
3 posted on 12/23/2011 11:26:00 PM PST by Isabel2010
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Kay-dettes.

Ain't a handful of them worth a half bucket of warm spit.

But I do respect officers that made it through the maze. I actually got to salute a 3rd Lt. once (a long time ago, in a land far away) I also accidentally saluted a Colour Sergeant. That got corrected quickly.

/johnny

4 posted on 12/23/2011 11:26:07 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (gone Galt)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Can the American ghetto dwellers wear doo-rags?
5 posted on 12/23/2011 11:58:40 PM PST by Realman30 ("I've already made a donation to Haiti. It's called taxes". . . . El Rushbo.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
and Johnny is NOT allowed to wear an American flag t-shirt in high school
6 posted on 12/23/2011 11:59:25 PM PST by Java4Jay (The evils of government are directly proportional to the tolerance of the people.)
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To: JRandomFreeper
Kay-dettes.

Ain't a handful of them worth a half bucket of warm spit...

 
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7 posted on 12/24/2011 12:02:59 AM PST by wolficatZ (:"TV is king, you're my everything..")
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Changes need to be made..its worse than 1860..and will be bloodier..


8 posted on 12/24/2011 12:10:59 AM PST by bushpilot1
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Pray for America.


9 posted on 12/24/2011 12:23:30 AM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I want to wear a pancake on my head because my religion is food. Will they let me do it?


10 posted on 12/24/2011 12:26:58 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (Nancy Pelosi - The #1 reason why we need a Constitutional amendment for Congressional drug testing.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
This is what happens when PC insanity trumps required safety gear in the field of military action.

There's gonna be a pile of dead Islamic ladies once the Muzzie shrapnel starts a-flyin'.


11 posted on 12/24/2011 12:54:36 AM PST by henbane
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Good riddance! At the end Islam is a religion of pieces....


12 posted on 12/24/2011 2:01:44 AM PST by cunning_fish
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Drip, drip, drip, drip, drip.......


13 posted on 12/24/2011 3:06:53 AM PST by Rearden (Deo Vindice)
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To: Old Sarge

Soooo,
YOu’re saying obammy should be zip tied and thrown off a pier?


14 posted on 12/24/2011 3:59:41 AM PST by Joe Boucher ((FUBO))
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Appeasement of a murderous cult in the name of political correctness. This garbage needs to be eradicated from the earth. islam is not a religion. It is a social, moral, political, economic construct that sprang from the mad rantings of a deranged pseudo-prophet over 1400 years ago. It has been at war with civilization ever since. We are now caught up in the latest escalation of that war.
It is a war we dare not lose.


15 posted on 12/24/2011 4:17:19 AM PST by PubliusMM (RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion. 01-20-2013: Change we can look forward to.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

That costume is just that. It is not required by their religion. That’s a load of cr**.


16 posted on 12/24/2011 4:17:25 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Free ThinkerNY

passing the PT and swim test in burqas ought to be real speshul

But it may up recruiting when all those muslim women have to bring a male relative to avoid being unchaperoned on the battlefield


17 posted on 12/24/2011 4:39:41 AM PST by silverleaf (common sense is not so common- voltaire)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

The American military (yes, JRROTC members too) wear something known as a uniform. It is called that because everyone is supposed to be dressed alike. I don’t recall any provisions ever made to allow Jewish members to wear yarmulkes. If one joins the military from an urban gang, they have to forgo their gang ‘colors’ and wear the prescribed uniform. Why is one group allowed to segregate themselves and allowed to wear something that is individualistic - not uniform? Additionally, military members in predominately Muslim countries wear military uniforms without religious headgear.


18 posted on 12/24/2011 4:40:17 AM PST by Conservative Infidel (How come they call it "Tourist Season" if we can't shoot them??)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Pathetic!!!!!!!


19 posted on 12/24/2011 5:06:06 AM PST by SumProVita (Cogito, ergo...Sum Pro Vita. (Modified Decartes))
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To: Free ThinkerNY

My question is then are they going to be allowed to wear this stuff in the real military also? A uniform is a uniform. Thats the whole idea. You add to it. What if the jews need to wear a yamulka? What if the christians need to sew a large cross on their uniform? I wonder if that will be allowed? Thats a rhetorical question. Obviously the answer is no way.


20 posted on 12/24/2011 5:11:16 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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