Marine Gets Suspended From College Because He Requested Non-Muslim Counselor
Marine Gets Suspended From College Because He Requested Non-Muslim Counselor
U.S. Marine Jeremy Rawls was given the boot from his university after he asked for a non-Muslim counselor.
In fact, the school — Mississippi College — actually went so far as to label the guy a “threat,” because of his request.
I bet if he were a Muslim asking for a non-Christian counselor, he would’ve been treated very differently.
From Campus Reform:
Since February, the rising senior at Mississippi College in Clinton, Miss. has struggled to maintain good grades and reclaim his work-study position after MC administrators allegedly suspended him and labeled him a threat to himself and other students.
In an exclusive interview with Campus Reform, the former active-duty Marine who served two combat tours in Iraq said his suspension came after he requested to meet with a different counselor in the school’s Office of Counseling and Disability Services. Rawls, who is diagnosed with combat-related post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), was originally paired with a female counselor who wore traditional Muslim dress during his initial visit to the office.
“It’s not that I didn’t want to participate… I didn’t want to traumatize her and it wasn’t a good environment to be talking about [my disabilities] with that specific person,” Rawls said.
Rawls’s original reason for visiting the school’s counseling office was to pick up paperwork intended for his professors, a task that had been delayed because of a lengthy recovery from knee surgery.
“Every semester I have to identify with the school as disabled and they give me letters to give to my professors,” Rawls explained. “This semester I had a surgery at the beginning which caused some issues in getting some letters.”
According to Rawls, his attempts to meet with staff members to discuss the school’s policy about changing counselors were repeatedly ignored and it wasn’t until a recent meeting with administrators that he was able to speak with staff.
“Their response was suspending me pending a mental evaluation which I provided and then they put me on further restriction and a reintegration program,” Rawls said.
What exactly is a “reintegration program?” Is that code for “progressive brainwashing” because it sort of sounds like it to me.
The guy was trying to spare this woman the trauma of hearing what he did in combat, and given what he likely experienced, it would’ve been awkward to have that conversation with a Muslim individual.
Then again, maybe it wasn’t really that she was a Muslim, but the fact he was trying to spare a woman the horrors of his war stories, and they thought he was being sexist.
Who could blame Rawls for not wanting a Muslim counselor? After all, it was radical Islamic terrorists he fought against during his time in Iraq. They were the ones trying to shoot and kill him. I don’t think I’d be a big fan after that either. It’s understandable.
Regardless, this doesn’t seem like an action worthy of suspension, and the school should absolutely be ashamed of how they treated this American hero.