{"id":65120,"date":"2016-04-05T17:13:49","date_gmt":"2016-04-05T21:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=65120"},"modified":"2016-04-05T17:13:49","modified_gmt":"2016-04-05T21:13:49","slug":"more-of-the-sikh-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=65120","title":{"rendered":"More of the Sikh debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=65121\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-65121\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Specialist-Harpal-Singh-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Specialist Harpal Singh\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-65121\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Specialist-Harpal-Singh-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Specialist-Harpal-Singh-222x333.jpg 222w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Specialist-Harpal-Singh.jpg 267w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>We talked the other day about the Army capitulating to Captain Simratpal Singh and they&#8217;re allowing him serve with his beard and his turban. Well, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.becketfund.org\/three-sikhs-army-religious-protection-pr\/\">The Becket Fund<\/a> writes to tell us that there are three more Sikhs in the wings who have filed a lawsuit so they can serve in uniform. Specialist Kanwar Singh, Specialist Harpal Singh, and Private Arjan Ghotra are scheduled to go through Basic Combat Training next month and without special dispensation, they&#8217;ll have to shave to begin their training.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe Army\u2019s delays leave Sikh soldiers uncertain about their future for months on end,\u201d?said [Eric Baxter, senior counsel at Becket].?\u201cIn the meantime, they are often treated like second-class soldiers. The Army needs to stop sending the message that religious minorities are not welcome in the military.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think the Army is sending that message at all. They&#8217;ve caved every time. The gas chamber just might weed these guys out, though. And, I&#8217;m sure the Army is is going on a case-by-case basis. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We talked the other day about the Army capitulating to Captain Simratpal Singh and they&#8217;re allowing &hellip; <a title=\"More of the Sikh debate\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=65120\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More of the Sikh debate<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65121,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-army-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/65121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}