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Canada's Mounties Say Female Officers Can Wear Hijabs
NPR ^ | August 24, 2016 | JASON SLOTKIN

Posted on 08/25/2016 6:27:48 AM PDT by Leaning Right

Canada's national police force says it is allowing women in its ranks to wear the hijab.

A spokesman confirmed Wednesday that the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, known as the Mounties, recently approved the headscarf for its Muslim officers.

"This is intended to better reflect the diversity in our communities and encourage more Muslim women to consider the Royal Canadian Mounted Police as a career option," Scott Bardsley, spokesman for Canada's public safety minister, told the Canada-based Global News.

(Excerpt) Read more at npr.org ...


TOPICS: Canada; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: canada; hijab; mounties
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At one time, an immigrant would adapt to his new country. Now the country adapts to the immigrant. This can't end well.
1 posted on 08/25/2016 6:27:49 AM PDT by Leaning Right
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To: Leaning Right

Do they ride camels or horses?


2 posted on 08/25/2016 6:28:25 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Leaning Right

diversity.....IS KING!!!!

Cause it’s worked so well throughout history /s


3 posted on 08/25/2016 6:28:39 AM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: Leaning Right

How you going to know whether it’s a terrorist or not. Do we want police officers wearing masks so they can’t be identified ?


4 posted on 08/25/2016 6:31:40 AM PDT by Scythian_Reborn
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encourage more Muslim women to consider the Royal Canadian Mounted Police as a career option

Is there a need? If not, is there a want? If not, why the constant pandering?

Why have decades of tradition as expressed in the rule book - standards for everything from height, weight, fitness, hair, tattoos, etc. etc.? Why is Group A expected to adhere to these standards when they are thrown out the window for someone wearing a dinner napkin?

If someone is openly demonstrating that they are subservient to males, voluntarily or involuntarily, and that same someone is indicating that their religion comes before all secular duties why would any law enforcement agency want such a cowardly, backward-thinking individual?

5 posted on 08/25/2016 6:35:30 AM PDT by relictele (Principiis obsta & Finem respice - Resist The Beginnings & Consider The Ends.)
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From the article footnote:

‘We no longer support commenting on NPR.org stories,’

I shouldn’t wonder. Why would government propagandists operating on the public dime want to hear from the public, especially when the public disapproves of their agenda?


6 posted on 08/25/2016 6:36:50 AM PDT by relictele (Principiis obsta & Finem respice - Resist The Beginnings & Consider The Ends.)
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To: Leaning Right

Submission

That is what Islam means


7 posted on 08/25/2016 6:37:48 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam , Know Peace)
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To: Scythian_Reborn

I won’t stop. I would think it’s an imposter trying to kill me.


8 posted on 08/25/2016 6:38:01 AM PDT by Bulwyf
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To: Leaning Right

Sergeant Preston is rolling around in his grave.

I wonder how many of us she’ll shoot when we laugh at her.


9 posted on 08/25/2016 6:40:34 AM PDT by Rannug ("all enemies, foreign and : domestic")
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Before too long it might look as if we should build a wall at *both* borders.
10 posted on 08/25/2016 6:40:51 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (In Today's America Feelings Are The New Truth)
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I think the Mounties look pretty cool in their red uniforms.Not so cool in a black burlap sack however.


11 posted on 08/25/2016 6:42:29 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (In Today's America Feelings Are The New Truth)
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How long before the Mounties have an insider murder?


12 posted on 08/25/2016 6:44:24 AM PDT by Uncle Sam 911
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To: relictele
From what I understand, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp will only allow comments until it is evident they are taking a conservative direction....then they close out the comments. Sure sign of a site that can't handle the truth about their lies.

A lot of people slander Alex Jones, but his comments sections after each story, are a battleground of thought. Some of it is obscene and idiotic, but at least it's wide open. I like that idea.....the idea of free speech, with all its warts and carbuncles.

13 posted on 08/25/2016 6:45:08 AM PDT by Scooter100
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To: Leaning Right

Next will be burka’s....imagine that.


14 posted on 08/25/2016 6:51:22 AM PDT by goodnesswins (Hillary SUPPORTS those who support CLITORECTOMIES for little girls...)
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Will the Hijabs be Mountie Red?


15 posted on 08/25/2016 7:06:22 AM PDT by gigster (Cogito, Ergo, Ronaldus Magnus Conservatus)
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To: Leaning Right

You brilliantly point out that under today’s rules, the United States of America could NEVER have become what it is today.
Rather, the land between the Atlantic and Pacific would consist of 48 independent countries, many of them in a virtually “state of war” against their neighbors. Kind of like the Balkans.
It is even likely that there would have been enclaves withing each “country” where either members of the majority or members of varied minorities would not be allowed to go.


16 posted on 08/25/2016 7:07:44 AM PDT by CaptainAmiigaf (New York Times: "We print the news as it fits our views.")
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To: gigster

I’m guessing that color would be too sexy.....they’ll go for black. Anything to buck convention is what they want.


17 posted on 08/25/2016 7:08:24 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Leaning Right

18 posted on 08/25/2016 7:09:33 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: Gaffer

they walk, silly, 2 paces behind the men on horses...

theyre just lowly females...


19 posted on 08/25/2016 7:27:59 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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In their perfect world one day these Hijab Mounties will wield a sword to separate their Mountie comrades’ heads from their bodies.


20 posted on 08/25/2016 7:29:24 AM PDT by Gaffer
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