Good deal. We can use all the Sikhs we can get. Truly ferocious fighters and they do not like islamists at all.
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Can’t wear gas masks, chemical suits, or firefighting equipment.
Long-term, I wonder. because this ruling - if it stands - will be applied to other dress issues as well. So why not allow hijabs? And burqas?
Contrary to the old liberal slogan, there is not always strength in diversity.
Agreed. There’s a reason all those 1930’s movies about the British Raj and the wars over the Khyber Pass showed His Majesty’s units in turbans and beards. The British could trust Sikhs in their fight against marauding Afghan hill tribes. And Indira Ghandi was stupid enough to trust hers after ordering the assault on the Golden Temple.
Bull, this is exactly the kind of activism, and multi-culturalism, and hat and hair diversity, the military doesn’t need.