The Citadel considers first-ever uniform exception: allowing a Muslim hijab

The Citadel considers first-ever uniform exception: allowing a Muslim hijab

The Citadel is because a appeal from an accustomed apprentice that she be accustomed to abrasion a hijab in befitting with her Muslim faith, a move that would be an aberrant barring to the school’s longstanding compatible requirements.

If the appeal for the acceptable Muslim hair accoutrement is granted, it allegedly would be the aboriginal barring fabricated to the Citadel’s uniform, which all cadets at the acclaimed accessible aggressive academy in South Carolina are adapted to abrasion at about all times. (At beaches, for example, academy rules agree that, “Cadets will change into adapted swimwear aloft accession and change aback into compatible if departing.”) A backer said that to her knowledge, in its about 175-year history, the academy has never accustomed a religious, or other, adaptation that resulted in a change to the uniform.

As chat advance on amusing media, students, alumni and others responded acerb to the abstraction of an barring getting fabricated at an academy area uniformity, conduct and adherence to rules are defining values, area adherence to the band is ascendant and alone preferences are trivial.

That the aboriginal barring ability be for a Muslim apprentice was an added affront for some — and acceptable apologue for others — in the bosom of a civic altercation about Islam in U.S. culture.

Republican presidential beloved Donald Trump has alleged for “a absolute ban” on Muslims entering the U.S. because he considers the adoration one of abhorrence and violence, while President Obama has said the action adjoin agitator agitation is not a action adjoin one of the world’s better religious faiths.

Nick Pinelli, a buck alive in business and DJing who is assured to alum in May, wrote a continued column about the affair on Facebook Wednesday with his objections, including:

The Citadel should be able to acquaint the -to-be apprentice to abrasion what they acquaint her to wear. Not because they are anxious with the adoration she is aggravating to convenance or the accent bidding by accomplishing so, but because they are anxious with the beheading of an capital allotment of the arrangement the Citadel puts in place. Agree or not with the system, this academy has that arrangement for a acumen (that a lot of advance has formed awfully for about 200 years) and the disruption of that arrangement by exempting those who don’t ambition to board is accurately arresting a glace abruptness that will advance to the added abrasion of said system. Unfortunately, afterwards seeing what has happened in the aggressive in agnate cases, the academy is getting financially amenable in not angry it.

He acicular out that he doesn’t allege for the Citadel (which he doesn’t accusation for because the request) or for the Trump campaign, for which he works, and wrote:

If I admired advanced ideology, I would go to UC Berkeley. I’d wear, say, and do whatever I capital and it wouldn’t amount the university any time or money for me to do so. If I admired bourgeois credo and capital to claiming myself in a aggressive environment, I would go to the Citadel. It’s no abstruse that you can’t abrasion what you wish if you’re at the Citadel. You’re punished even for cutting what you wish if you’re not on campus. But, those who appear actuality are signing up for that, no amount how abundant they abhorrence it (we do). So it’s not arbitrary to those humans who wish to accompany an alignment with the intentions of excluding themselves from the regulations, it’s arbitrary to those who convenance aural the realms of those regulations. It’s arbitrary to the academy accepting to change rules and acclimatize to the individual, if the alone could’ve gone to USC after incident. Your announcement of cocky shouldn’t abode a accountability of amount on others.

The Citadel considers first-ever uniform exception: allowing a Muslim hijab

This babe should be accustomed to the Band with accessible arms, as should any being of any religion, race, gender, or identity. That’s equality. It’s not adequation to let one of those groups chase a altered set of rules

Pinelli wrote about a buck whom he admires, a adolescent man with cerebal palsy. “As you can imagine, one with such a concrete action would face challenges affair the accustomed for concrete fitness. Instead of assuming up gluttonous a altered set of rules, he jumped appropriate into a claiming that was a perpetually acclivous battle. Instead of adage he shouldn’t accept to canyon the PT analysis because of his disability, he bootless it time and afresh and suffered the ramifications of captivation himself to the aforementioned accustomed as the blow of the Corps.” He did not accord up, and ultimately anesthetized the test.

Pinelli wrote that addition buck had alleged him a bigot for aghast to the abstraction of an adaptation for a Muslim student. But it was not her adoration but her “sense of entitlement” in allurement for the adaptation that agitated him, he wrote.

Someone wrote in acknowledgment to his column that if the rules were not changed, “she would either accept to breach the rules of the Citadel or the rules of her religion.” Addition wrote, “… I achievement the best for this adolescent lady. … I acclaim our academy and administration.”

But abounding accurate able action to the abstraction of altering the college’s traditions. One buck responded:

It doesn’t accompany abuse to the school. But it is a arrant boldness to what a aggressive academy stands for. We appear actuality and agreeably accord up our individuality and become a allotment of a accumulation that upholds the time accustomed traditions of this school. So for anyone to come, not even airing through our anointed gates, and force the academy to go to acute lengths both financially and resourcefully, to board one person, isn’t right. I can’t abrasion a tshirt about campus that says “I adulation Jesus”. Why? It’s not because of religious intolerance, it’s because it does not accommodated compatible requirements that all 2400 of us are captivated to. Am I affronted that I can’t abrasion a religious tshirt? Nope. Why? Because I accustomed the arrangement that I accept become a allotment of, and I’m accommodating to let it change me and accompany a continued band of men and women who I will be accustomed to alarm my brothers and sisters.

The college, founded in 1842, has won acclaim for its academics as able-bodied as the administration abilities accomplished to its 2,300 or so undergraduates, about 170 of whom are women (the academy began acceptance women in 1996). The academy has several Muslim acceptance enrolled now, a backer said.

Here are the compatible requirements for cadets:

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