The Pentagon has approved a new policy that will allow troops to wear turbans and other religious clothing and engage in religious observances.
Until now there has been no set policy in the military to allow accommodations for religion.
Soldiers must apply for a waiver to be able to wear their religious garment or engage in a specific religious activity, which the military says they will take on a case-by-case basis.
The Pentagon has approved a new policy that will allow troops to seek waivers to wear religious clothing, seek prayer time or engage in religious practices.Defense officials say the waivers will be decided on a case-by-case basis and will depend on where the service member is stationed and whether the change would affect military readiness or the mission.
Until now there has been no consistent policy across the military to allow accommodations for religion. Now, for example, Jewish troops can seek a waiver to wear a yarmulke, or Sikhs can seek waivers to wear a turban and grow a beard.
Others can request specific prayer times or ask that they be allowed to carry prayer beads or other items.
The policy also says that service members can choose not to recognize any religion, according to NBC News.
According to Defense Department statistics obtained by NBC, there are only three Sikh Americans in the military. There are about 3,700 Muslims. 6,300 Buddhists, and 1,500 Wiccans.
The directive stresses that “the importance of uniformity and adhering to standards, of putting unit before self, is more significant and needs to be carefully evaluated when considering each request for accommodation,” according to NBC.
It’s happened here in Canada with them being able to wear turbines and that stupid little sword and now this… what a $#%&!@*ed up time we live in! Persecute the ones that built our great lands and coddle the people that arrived here from somewhere else, you wanna be here, assimilate to our ways or don’t come!
This is bull c**p
What if they want to wear the flag of Isis ??? Is that ok too??
Unreal !!!! This country is getting worse … just give into all these groups .. freaking morons . This is why no one is afraid of us . Snatch his towel off his damn head and wear the hats that ate part of the uniform ..
But the Catholic military have Bibles taken away and priests told they couldn’t have Mass? Oh I get so angry.
let’s see they take God out of everything , yet it’s ok if the muslims demonstrate their religious garb in our military? You have given the enemy in the white house an inch and he has stretched it into milessssssssss., It’s always the muslims he is going out of his way to please while he kicks americans to the curb. He deserves a firing squad for high treason, hopefully one of these days it will come true .
Seriously, has everyone on this thread lost it? Do you believe everything you read on Facebook? Are you all that ignorant of the fact that THE SIKH ARE NOT MUSLIMS. All that I continue to see is hate against these guys based on the way they look.
No way should Americans have to be in the service with these things ! They should not be in our Country, much less in our Military !
this is at the same time Christians are not allowed to have a Bible
Soldiers working in hospitals still wear the uniform every day. Depending on where you work, you have to wear scrubs. These guys still would have to report to duty in a duty uniform.