A Ravenwood High School freshman said her Muslim beliefs were put to the test when commanding officers in her Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (JROTC) program told her she couldn’t both wear a headscarf and march in the September homecoming parade.
Demin Zawity, 14, has since quit the JROTC and returned to regular physical education classes, but the Council on American-Islamic Relations sent a letter of complaint to Williamson County Schools Director Mike Looney.
[A COMMENT] JROTC is not a mandatory course. It is an elective. A course one enrolls in voluntarily. When you voluntarily enroll in a course, you are, to my view, accepting the ground rules, prerequisites if you will, for that class. .... haircut, wear of uniform, and other particulars were well defined .... The rules for wear of the uniform mirror those for the actual military department with which the JROTC program is affiliated.
[A COMMENT] Yeah, so? Who cares what CAIR is troubled by? If this young lady wants to wear muslim headgear and march donning a military uniform, perhaps she is residing in the wrong country. [tennessean.com] Read more [via Islamophobia Watch]
