This will make you feel secure, especially if you are a woman.
Even though it's illegal, Hussein is requiring female soldiers in Afghanistan to wear moose-slum hijabs instead of helmets.
So women are already being subjected to moose-slum control and discrimination BY OUR OWN GOVERNMENT.
Anyone still doubt Hussein Obama's intentions? Wonder how many women have refused and been court-martialed or left the military?
Obama's PC Military: Female Soldiers in Afghanistan now required to wear Islamic Headgear rather than Helmets
Saturday, February 05, 2011 9:11
"Cultural Sensitivities" triumph over Safety
From Eric Dondero:
In 2002, congress passed legislation overturning a DOD policy requiring female soldiers stationed in Saudi Arabia from wearing traditional Muslim head coverings. But lately, the legislation has been increasingly ignored by the administration.
Stars & Stripes published 9 photos last Fall of female soldiers stationed in Afghanistan wearing traditional hijabs, instead of standard US Army headgear, as worn by male soldiers in the outfits. There was an outcry in the military community that the Army was bowing down to political correctness.
Female Soldiers put at a disadvantage as opposed to Male counterparts?
But now, many in the military community are recognizing there's a safety issue involved, as well.
From the MilBlog, The Two Malcontents by Margaret Calhoun Hemenway "Are U.S Servicewomen Trading the Safety of Helmets for Hijabs?" Feb. 2:
The DoD “abaya” policy was defended under the guise of “cultural sensitivities”...
Most important, a headscarf is no protection against a sniper or IED. A helmet is standard protective gear for the most important part of the human body: the brain. A female soldier in a headscarf limits her peripheral vision, a problem when operating in a hostile or potentially hostile environment. With the bizarre hybrid of a camouflage uniform topped by a headscarf, a female service member is identifying herself as an American soldier but simultaneously making a concession to Islam (in uniform, as a representative of the American government) – hardly an image to inspire confidence, and one that will provoke derision from a religiously motivated enemy that views such acts as weakness.
Hemenway is hopeful that with a new Republican House, and more Republicans in the Senate that congress may now have the will to force the Obama administration to respect the 2002 law.
Congress needs to ensure that the spirit of the legislation repealing the “abaya” mandate is extended to protect female service members who may be pressured by superiors to forego the safety of the helmet for the hijab and compelled to disrespect their First Amendment-protected religious beliefs.
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