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Muslim Junior ROTC Student Wants to Wear Head Cover With Uniform
FoxNews.com ^ | October 20, 2011 | Perry Chiaramonte

Posted on 10/20/2011 4:48:50 PM PDT by Hunton Peck

You can wear a Muslim head scarf, and you can wear the uniform of the Junior ROTC. Just not at the same time.

That’s the word from the U.S. Army, which is supporting an officer’s ruling last month that a 14-year-old Tennessee girl could not wear her traditional head covering while in uniform at a parade.

The student, Demin Zawity, of Brentwood, Tenn., quit the Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps program at Ravenwood High School and returned to regular gym classes when commanding officers said she had to take off her hijab if she wanted to march in the homecoming parade.

"It was during Spirit Week. We were getting ready for the homecoming parade and the head officer said that I wouldn't be able to wear the head scarf while I had the uniform on," Demin said.

"I said that it was a religious thing and that I really couldn't take it off.”

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"We as a school system are bound to the regulations of the Army. We cannot conduct the program unless we follow the regulations," said Jason Golden, Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel for the school district.

"We were practicing all week and the day before the parade he pulled me over to the side and said that I couldn't march," Demin recalled, speaking of her senior officer. "I wanted to break down and cry right there, but I held it in and went into stoic mode."

But Demin’s family feels she is being discriminated against, and has reached out to the Council on American-Islamic Relations, which is calling on the school district and the Department of Defense to change a policy that it says "effectively bars a Muslim student from participating in the class."

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TOPICS: Education; Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: cair; headscarf; islam; jrotc
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To: magslinger

According to the article you posted they didn’t use the swastica when Germany also adopted it and changed to the Thunderbird in the 30’s. So, according to your article, American soldiers did not wear the swastika on their uniforms during WWII.


21 posted on 10/21/2011 4:45:43 AM PDT by eastforker
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To: eastforker

Exactly my point. They changed it long before the Nazis were our enemies in fact. We have been at war with the Mohammedans since before we were a country in our own right. American soldiers should not wear Mohammedan symbols.


22 posted on 10/21/2011 5:16:20 AM PDT by magslinger (To properly protect your family you need a Bible, a twelve gauge and a pig.)
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To: Hunton Peck

Not only no, but f_ck no!


23 posted on 10/21/2011 5:36:41 AM PDT by j_tull (I may make you feel, but I can't make you think.)
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