Posted on 04/04/2019 4:40:14 PM PDT by montag813
by Sheri Urban
Spc. Cesilia Valdovinos was demoted this week after she was caught breaking U.S. Army regulations.
Female members of the Army are required to put their hair in a bun for safety reasons. Cesilia was caught repeatedly wearing her hair down under her hijab, despite warnings, so she was demoted.
Now Valdovinos plans to sue the Army over a violation of her civil rights. She says she is a victim of religious discrimination.
The Army Times reported:
Following a rejected equal opportunity complaint and a demotion in rank, a Muslim soldier who has accused her Fort Carson, Colorado, leadership of religious discrimination is contemplating a federal lawsuit, her attorney confirmed to Army Times on Wednesday.
Spc. Cesilia Valdovinos, who was demoted this week following an unrelated Article 15 investigation, will file a complaint alleging violation of her civil rights either in northern Virginia or Denver, according to Mikey Weinstein, founder of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation.
This is a pattern and practice of anti-Muslim bigotry, prejudice and harassment, he said.
The 26-year-old culinary specialists story first went viral in mid-March, after she filed an EO complaint with her command based on an incident with her command sergeant major at the 704th Transportation Battalion.
The senior noncommissioned officer, believing that Valdovinos was wearing her hair down underneath her hijab ― rather than in a bun, per regulation ― demanded the soldier remove the head covering,
Her hair fell to her shoulders, Valdovinos told Army Times, because she uses the extra fabric in the cap to secure her bun. When she removes it, the bun falls out.
Army sources completely dispute her claims:
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She has been in the Army long enough to know that you should NEVER get on the bad side of your Command Sergeant Major or First Sergeant. Very bad times come when that happens.
HELL YEAH!!!!
id say kick her out, but if they do she’ll just end up in congress soemwhere
I always gave my soldiers that option when I was a battery commander. It was their right to do so. I dont recall more than 5-6 in a year and a half.
Simple solution: take her unit to the NBC training facility for a live exercise using CS agent and no preparation other than the standard 9-secs to don mask. Bet she wears her hair as required after that!
Made many a convert after that in my unit! The rules are there to keep you alive, not to harass you.
NBC NCO, Ft Hood, TX ‘81-’83
Southern Filipina I bet.
When my son was in the Airborne 15 years ago he would see pregnant women wearing tennis shoes and BODy’s and an airborne beret. Nice.
Regulations are for kafirs, you stupid infidel.
Why does the Army permit these muslim hogs to wear their islamic head covers on duty anyway?
Put her in Leavenworth then exile for the rest of her worthless life ,
Plus... as a practicing muzzie, her oath was fraudulent.
It needs to be either up in a bun or short. If she refuses to comply with this, kick ‘er out.
You’ll recall that a moose limb student shaved her head completely bald when they refused to let her wear her headrag in France. Bald is an option, therefore no bias.
Let’s see. A practicing muzzie with a mexican family name preparing meals for the troops. What could go wrong?
Get back to me on that.
And when her jihad switch is tripped, shell cause death or harm to destroy our best and brightest in the name of her faith. Think back to 9/11/01 and if someone told you this sub-human muzzie would wear the uniform of a branch of the armed forces youd tell me Im crazy. But here we are.
Damn! Pork chops were the only meal I ever liked in the service.
Yup. Like having Japs in the Pacific in we 2.
Never thought I would see a lot of what we have now. Thought nobody could be that stupid.
General Under Less Than Honorable for Failure to Adapt.
Dishonorable discharge....... problem solved
Diversity is an American enemy
IIRC Ft. Sill still has a PCF.
Why was she ordered multiple times?
Once wasn’t enough in the army?
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