A federal court has ruled that a Sikh college student must be allowed to join his school’s Army ROTC with his long hair, beard and turban intact. In her decision, Judge Amy Berman Jackson of the ...

WASHINGTON – A federal court ruled today that a Sikh ... unshorn hair, beard, and turban violated his rights under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), which was designed to protect personal ...

Sikhs were able to serve in the U.S. military with beards, long hair and turbans from World War I until 1981, when it was changed in the first year of the Reagan administration by then-Defense ...

The other four are officers. Sikhs were allowed to wear beards, unshorn hair and turbans with their uniforms from World War I through the Vietnam War. The standard exception to the uniform policy ...

At the next red light, Khalsa’s head was pulled out of the window of his car, his turban was forcibly removed and his long hair was cut off, authorities say. The Sikh Coalition, a national civil ...

“But I could not cut my hair and remove my turban. They’re not mine ... doing away with the long-standing exemption for Sikhs. Rajdeep Singh, the director of law and policy at the Sikh ...

Three Sikhs who want to keep their religiously mandated uncut hair, beards and turbans during Marine Corps basic training brought their case to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals Tuesday afternoon.

Captain Simratpal Singh, a Sikh-American officer who has served in combat, won a long-term religious accommodation from the U.S. Army to serve his country with a beard, turban and long hair ...

Airman 1st Class Harpreetinder Singh Bajwa has become the first active-duty Sikh airman permitted to wear a turban, beard and long hair, following the practices of his faith. (Courtesy of ...

(RNS) A federal judge has ruled a Sikh college student must be allowed to join a college Army group and keep his long hair, turban and beard -- part of his "religious uniform." (RNS) A federal ...

A federal court has ruled that a Sikh college student must be allowed to join his school’s Army ROTC with his long hair, beard and turban intact. In her decision, Judge Amy Berman Jackson of the ...