Assistant chief of police, Anita Najiy, created a bone of contention between the Miami Police Department and the Fraternal Order of Police President, Javier Ortiz, after she refused to hold her hand over her heart for the Pledge of Allegiance during a recent promotional ceremony.
Ortiz became livid in seeing Najiy refuse to honor the Pledge, stating that she failed to exhibit courtesy and etiquette that “must be exercised when wearing a law enforcement uniform.”
“If you’re not pledging allegiance to the United States, my question is what country are you pledging allegiance to?” Ortiz asks. “Anyone who isn’t offended by that is not American, because when you become a U.S. citizen, you pledge allegiance to the US.”
Ortiz also states that Najiy’s disrepect comes from her Muslim belief, but that normal “protections” or exemptions generally given in the name of religious freedom and speech doesn´t apply to those in police uniform because “you’re supposed to be neutral.”
MOVE TO PAGE 2:
The Pledge of Allegiance is totally un-american! Dictatorships make you pledge allegiance to them not a free Republic
As a police officer sworn to protect the people and properties in your assigned area one must be loyal to the community and state which you are residing in. An example of what I see as a problem is if faced with a terrorist muslim group where would her loyalties be? Being a muslim herself makes me see flags for whether she would enforce the laws of our country or would she step aside and let hell be raised by terrorist Muslim group. Where would her loyalties start and end.
The Pledge of Allegiance is totally un-american! Dictatorships make you pledge allegiance to them not a free Republic. The Pledge is to the FLAG! Not to your country!
The Pledge of Allegiance is totally un-american! Dictatorships make you pledge allegiance to them not a free Republic
The Pledge of Allegiance is totally un-american! Dictatorships make you pledge allegiance to them not a free Republic. Taking an oath and pledging allegiance are two different things!
The Pledge of Allegiance is totally un-american! Dictatorships make you pledge allegiance to them not a free Republic
The Pledge of Allegiance is totally un-american! Dictatorships make you pledge allegiance to them not a free Republic. Oh and the standing military is Uncons$#%&!@*utional!
Oath and pledging allegiance to a flag are totally different
fire her
If that’s the case, they have no business holding any office in the U.S.
I certainly wouldn’t trust her to do a policeman’s(woman) job. She should be dismissed