Thread: U.S. Army uniforms to include Muslim headscarves, turbans?

Islamic groups tied to international jihad continue to infiltrate American military

After intervention by the Council on American Islamic Relations, the Defense Department reportedly decided it will now allow Muslim students participating in the Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps to wear headscarves and turbans while in uniform.
The decision marks the latest influence by controversial Islamic groups on military affairs.
WND previously broke the story that an Islamic group that has been closely tied to the Muslim Brotherhood and was named by the Justice Department as an unindicted co-conspirator in a scheme to raise money for Hamas is the official endorsing agency for the U.S. Armed Forces Muslim chaplain program.

The Islamic Society of North America, or ISNA, also runs regular events for the military's Muslim chaplains.
WND also reported the Army's Muslim chaplain program was founded by a terror-supporting convict while the Army's first Islamic chaplain, who is still serving, has been associated with a charity widely accused of serving as an al-Qaida front.
On Thursday, CAIR announced its activism was responsible for the decision to allow Muslim garb in the JROTC.
The Islamic group got involved following an incident in October in which a Muslim teen, Demin Zawity, reportedly quit the JROTC when her commanding officer at a Brentwood, Tenn., high school would not allow her to wear her hijab in the homecoming parade.
CAIR sent a letter to Defense Secretary Leon Panetta requesting "constitutionally-protected religious accommodations for the girl and for future Muslim JROTC participants."
Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army Larry Stubblefield responded to CAIR's complaint by explaining the JROTC program will not allow religious headwear.
"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."


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Guess Odrama wasn't kidding about bringing a 100 million Muslims in here!

I wonder if this is not being too generous when the military is trying to create a shared group identity. Sikhs wear turbans more consistently that Moslems and somehow the Orthodox Jews have managed to do without yarmulkahs. These groups have not complained to the same degree and certainly deserve to have equal consideration. I find that there is unjustified anti Islamic sentiment indulged here. However the hijab is more cultural and is not considered a religious requirement even by all Moslems.

It might be in the ROTC in schools but it wont fly in the regular sevices.The military prides itself in uniformity being retired military ive seen and lived it.I dont see it going over in there.

(retrieved your avatar for ya. RB)

This is politically correct B.S. As Duckman pointed out, the purpose of the uniform is uniformity. Gee,what a difficult concept for these knotheads to grasp. As to constitutional rights and freedom of religious expression, those go by the wayside in the military. You have limited freedom of speech, limited freedom of movement, limited right to privacy, and limited choices in what to wear and when. You are subject to the Uniform Code of Justice, which I always looked at as a military person's constitution because what rights your have, and their limitations, are spelled out in the code, and it does take precedence over civil law with regard to military matters.

Granted, JROTC is not the same as active duty, but with regard to the Muslim girl who decided to drop out of JROTC because she did not like the limitations on what she could wear in a formal military assembly (parade), I would say good riddance. JROTC implies a desire to become a commissioned officer, which implies the need to demonstrate the ability to lead, and that includes leading by example.

Last but not least, when was the last time you saw a military parade of US troops whose Jewish members were wearing yarmulkes, or native American members were wearing feathered war bonnets. Good grief, what would be next......Military Yankee fans wearing their baseball caps and Drew Brees fans wearing their Number 9 Saints shirts because they are religious fanatics about their team?