Rasheed Alhassan v. General Michael W. Hagee, Commandant, United States Marine Corps, and Major Jon D. Quehl, United States Marine Corps

WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge.

Lance Corporal Rasheed Alhassan sought a discharge from the United States Marine Corps as a conscientious objector but his request for conscientious objector status was denied. Alhassan petitioned the district court for relief under habeas corpus but the district court denied his petition finding that the Marine Corps had a basis in fact for denying him status as a conscientious objector because he made his request immediately after learning of his imminent departure to Iraq and he never expressed any anti-war religious sentiment until he was about to be deployed. We…