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08-25-2016, 03:07 AM
Mounties **w allowed to wear hijabs
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Canada's national police force has become the latest law enforcement agencyto allow its female ******rs to wear the hijab.
The commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/en) (RCMP) recently approved the addition to the uniform for Muslim women, public safety minister Ralph Goodale's spokesman Scott Bardsley said (http://bigstory.ap.org/article/613ba23b873f429dbccf323d77d0ae13/canadian-mounties-allow-******rs-wear-hijab) Wednesday.
It sees the force follow in the footsteps of Toronto and Edmonton, as well as forces in Sweden, **rway, some U.S. states and London's Metropolitan Police in allowing the headgear.*
SEE ALSO: The long journey of America's first Olympian to compete in a hijab (http://mashable.com/2016/08/04/ibtihaj-muhammad-muslim-fencer-hijab-olympics-america/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
The new move aims to better reflect Canada's diversity, Bardsley said, and encourage more Muslim women to consider a career as a Mountie. Women currently make up around a fifth (http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-37173669) of the RCMP force. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/24/mountie-uniform-hijab/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Canada's national police force has become the latest law enforcement agencyto allow its female ******rs to wear the hijab.
The commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/en) (RCMP) recently approved the addition to the uniform for Muslim women, public safety minister Ralph Goodale's spokesman Scott Bardsley said (http://bigstory.ap.org/article/613ba23b873f429dbccf323d77d0ae13/canadian-mounties-allow-******rs-wear-hijab) Wednesday.
It sees the force follow in the footsteps of Toronto and Edmonton, as well as forces in Sweden, **rway, some U.S. states and London's Metropolitan Police in allowing the headgear.*
SEE ALSO: The long journey of America's first Olympian to compete in a hijab (http://mashable.com/2016/08/04/ibtihaj-muhammad-muslim-fencer-hijab-olympics-america/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
The new move aims to better reflect Canada's diversity, Bardsley said, and encourage more Muslim women to consider a career as a Mountie. Women currently make up around a fifth (http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-37173669) of the RCMP force. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/24/mountie-uniform-hijab/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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