“To me, it was the same thing as if they had asked someone to take their top off.”
A Muslim soldier claims she was asked to remove her hijab by her command sergeant major during a suicide prevention briefing earlier this month. Sergeant Cesilia Valdovinos told The Army Times she was at a chapel in Fort Carson, Colorado, on March 6 and was forcefully taken outside by her command sergeant major to remove the hijab in front of other people.
“To me, it was the same thing as if they had asked someone to take their top off,” the 26-year-old soldier told The Army Times. US Female Marine, Gunnery Sargeant Michelle Mollen of the 2nd Battalion, 1st Marines Regiment, patrols in Garmser, Helmand Province, Afghanistan on March 12, 2011. A female, Muslim, soldier claims her command sergeant forced her to remove her hijab earlier this month. ADEK BERRY/AFP/Getty Images
In a statement to Newsweek Col. Dave Zinn, commander 2nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, said they are aware of the incident and said they take these reports seriously.
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