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Navy Decides Against Using Image Of Muslim Woman For Target Practice | The Navy decided not to use a cardboard cutout of a Muslim woman for target practice, reports the Virginian-Pilot, which first published a photo of the target last week. The hijab-wearing, gun-toting woman was part of a new training range for Navy Seals at Virginia Beach. Both her image and the Quran verse on the wall behind her have been removed after the Council on American-Islamic Relations wrote a letter to Defense Secretary Leon Panetta on Friday, stating the target “sends a negative and counterproductive message to trainees and to the Muslim-majority nations to which they may be deployed.”