Do you think 'religous modesty' is a grounds for exemption from military life?

[Faith]

Personally, i don't think women should fight in wars. i believe that women are inately nurturers, who have no place taking lives.

For that matter...neither should men..which is why i don't believe in wars...but coming back to my Q, do you think 'religous modesty' is a grounds for exemption from military life?

i mean, so what if these women get 'caught kissing'...that shouldn't mean that they deserve to be in the army.

There just isn't any connection..

JERUSALEM – Israeli, female, and looking to dodge the draft? Don't get caught kissing.
With more 18-year-old females claiming religious modesty as grounds for exemption from male-dominated military life, Israel's army is hiring investigators to spy on suspected draft evaders, catching them doing decidedly unreligious things.
"We need those girls," Lt. Col. Gil Ben Shaoul, deputy commander of Israel's military recruitment center, told The Associated Press.
The army says the surveillance program began last year and has caught 520 young women, many who admitted they did not deserve the religious exemption and signed up for military service. In 1991, 21 percent of women avoided service on religious grounds, according to army figures; last year the figure was 36 percent, even though overall only around 20 percent of Israelis classify themselves as religious.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090318/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_israel_kissing_surveillance;_ylt=AuCi6F_BJunRxi4dwoJw66ELewgF

 

[the_hedda_lettuce]

I believe all the citizens of Israel are required to do 4 years of military service.
So if that's their law, that's the law.

It sounds like 520+ women need to take their big girl pills and suck it up like the millions of men and women before them have done.

 

[G F]

religon should not come in to it woman are just as bad as men in fact woman is more dangous as they will fight to the death to defend their young, so i think this is a woman choice not to fight

 

[Wicked Wanda]

The people that live in a country should not be exempt from fighting for that country based on gender, sexuality or age.

If someone wants to defend their country they should be able to regardless whether or not someone else thinks their gender is the "nuturer" or not.

If there are certain laws in a country that someone breaks than that person should have to serve military time or jail time depending on the crime. If they don't want to adhere to the laws they can either move to a country that doesn't have the law or work towards changing the law if it's unjust.