Army appeases cair again, more pc garbage.

[powderman]

Army to allow hijabs, turbans in Junior ROTC

By Caroline May Published: 3:43 PM 12/22/2011 | Updated: 10:45 PM 12/22/2011



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The Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) has announced that the Department of Defense will now allow Muslim and Sikh students participating in Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (JROTC) to wear headscarves and turbans while in uniform.
The decision, announced Thursday, followed an October incident in which Muslim teen Demin Zawity quit JROTC when her commanding officer at a Brentwood, Tenn. high school would not allow her to wear her hijab in the homecoming parade.
CAIR later wrote to Defense Secretary Leon Panetta requesting “constitutionally-protected religious accommodations for the girl and for future Muslim JROTC participants.”
In a letter to the Muslim organization sent on Panetta’s behalf, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army Larry Stubblefield explained that based on the incident that led Zawity to quit JROTC, the Army will now be making more accommodations for religious headwear in the training program.
“Based on your concerns, the Army has reviewed its JROTC uniform policy and will develop appropriate procedures to provide Cadets the opportunity to request the wear of religious head dress, such as the turban and hijab,” Stubblefield wrote in the letter, made public by CAIR. “This change will allow Miss Zawity and other students the chance to fully participate in the JROTC program.”
Army spokesman George Wright confirmed Stubblefield’s letter to CAIR and explained to The Daily Caller that while JROTC is affiliated with the Army, it is not actually a part of the Army. The new procedures will provide JROTC with a exemption method more similar to current Army procedure mandated through the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993.
That law allows soldiers on active duty to apply for religious [COLOR=green !important][COLOR=green !important]accommodation[/url][/COLOR] if they want to alter their uniforms in accordance with their religious beliefs. The exemptions are applied on a case-by-case basis. Soldiers who are transferred must reapply.



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[m-g Willy]

And I was told NOT to put a bible in any care packages we send to our troops.
And I also heard that no one was allowed to wear a cross while in Iraq.
I guess these "religious rights" only apply to muslims.
 

[LunaticFringeInc]

So are they all (JROTC) going to wear Turbins I mean I thought the purpose of "uniform" was so that we all had the same outfits on so as to be uniform...  Are they going to allow beards, gohtes and Fu Man Chu's as well as opposed to clean shaven and neatly groomed?  But who am I to question this when we allow Boys to join the Gril Scouts and Girls to join the Boy Scouts.  You just got to wonder how much more screwed up we can get...

[powderman]

The scum don't like the uniform?? DON'T JOIN, GET OUT. No such critter as an AMERICAN muslim, their cult always comes 1st. POWDERMAN. 

[yellowtail3]

No such critter as an AMERICAN muslim, their cult always comes 1st. POWDERMAN. 

You're wrong about that, and persistently so. I could introduce you to some American Muslims. They have the same rights as you, and all of them are better informed (but I don't know all that many). Hey - that CAIR bunch you don't like, many American members of that organization. That's the truth, and would be very easy to prove.
 
Powderman, have you never met an American Muslim? They definitely do exist.
 
Is this an issue for you which is outside of reason?