Posted on 04/28/2016 8:52:08 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo
A cadet at The Citadel said he is being punished with 33 hours of marching after he revealed in a Facebook post that the school was considering allowing an incoming cadet to wear a hijab in uniform.
The cadet, senior political science student Nick Pinelli, said officials at the public military college originally sought to charge him with behavior “unbecoming to a cadet,” a Class I offense that can lead to dismissal under the school’s disciplinary code. Instead, he said the school reduced the charge to “gross poor judgment” and handed him the maximum punishment: 40 “tours,” each consisting of 50 minutes of silent marching with a rifle in a barracks quadrangle. Pinelli, who has also been working as an intern for Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, must complete the tours before graduating on May 7.
Pinelli’s April 13 Facebook post led to national media coverage and sparked heated debate among Citadel cadets and alumni about the issue of the hijab, a head covering worn by some Muslim women. The Citadel is considering accepting a Muslim freshman who has asked to be able to wear the head scarf — an exception to the school’s military dress code. No final decision has been made on the issue.
“If I valued liberal ideology, I would go to UC Berkeley,” Pinelli wrote in the post.
Col. Brett Ashworth, a spokesman for The Citadel, declined to comment on whether Pinelli is being punished. “Due to FERPA (Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act), I can’t discuss individual disciplinary action,” Ashworth wrote in an email.
Wasn’t that long ago the Citadel didn’t accept women at all.
I couldn’t find your post on the Citadel’s Facebook page.
I found a lot of posts about Doggie Day at the Citadel. Of course that event will have to be cancelled once the Muslims get there.
My statement was a little more complicated than that.
are there any muslim headstones there?
I think he meant “all over the board”, as in many different people of minds that are different. ...............
As a woman of Western Civilization, the wearing of the Hijab is offensive. It symbolizes the rape, crucifixion, beheading and submission of infidels.
I have no problem with freedom of religion but Islam, especially militant Islam, is offensive to any Western woman. How does the US Military determine if a Muslim holds the more militant parts of the Koran above the US Constitution?
Nah. . .just saturate the gravesite with bacon grease. . .
When I was at the Citadel a tour was an hour and marched 3 of them on Saturdays. After a raid on Furman an upstate football rival there were so many cadets awarded tours that we marched them off in platoon formation.
“UC Berkeley is one of the toughest schools in the country to graduate from”
Then why have the graduates I’ve met been so stupid and incapable?? Their reputation is poor.
***the school was considering allowing an incoming cadet to wear a hijab in uniform. ***
Male or female student? Never can tell these days!
When the students spend their time sitting in trees, it can be hard to get those credits needed to graduate. Falling off of the roof of a frat house doesn't help, either.
Not entirely on topic, but, for a perspective on what Muslims consider “good stories” about Muslims, see:
I didn’t post directly on the page... not a ‘friend’. I commented on another post... piggy backing I guess you could say... unless you’re a muslim... that wouldn’t work then... Sorry, I should have been more precise...
I do not understand what you mean by that statement. Please clarify.
Only that I'm sure the Muslim community has a wide range of views regarding their citizenship.
Roger that. Unfortunate mixed metaphor.
Yes, and given that there are more than 5000 Muslims in the military today it's not a surprise.
I was thinking about the Muslims who immigrated here in the 19th century, and that they probably thought differently than today’s Muslim.
In the 19th century the Ottoman Empire still clung to existence in the Near East, and there were no nations such as Iraq or Syria, just historical regions dominated by a few families. Islam existed, but there was no nation with petro dollars financing huge Mosques across the United States as exists today with Saudi Arabia.
Islam controls its adherents through peer pressure. The less Muslims and less well organized the hierarchy of Islam then the easier it is to blend into what ever nation exists locally. Serving in the United States military would not feel uncomfortable.
There exist the ruins of Mosques in our Midwest region. Muslims came to this country in the 19th century to become wheat farmers, so I would not be surprised that they served in our military during the 2oth century. Those days are long past and Saudi Arabia is Hell bent on conquering the world for the fundamentalist version of Islam, as in the medieval 7th century version our ancestors in Europe endured for several centuries and eventually drove out in the 17th century.
Everything has changed but the more things change, the more they stay the same in this case.
I graduated from The Citadel when it still had honor. Now, even with 7 battle flags on their school flag from the Civil War, they can no longer play Dixie. We played it after every touchdown. I will not contribute to a PC school. I suspect they will give in on this, also.
Oh, well . . .
Gossiping about internal matters is. This was gossiping as it was not even his case.
Fourteen Citadel students were punished last Dec for Christmas caroling with pillowcases on their heads. The students claimed it was not racial that they were dresses as “the ghosts of Christmas past” but the school did not buy it.
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