[Girlene]

That's nice. Does this bother you?

Minnesota: YMCA and St. Paul Police Dept organize sharia swim time for Muslims

To better accommodate girls like Dhamuke, the downtown St. Paul YMCA, in partnership with the St. Paul Police Department, has started a swim group for Somali-American girls................During the hourlong swim practice, all other swimmers are cleared out of the pool. The men’s locker room is locked. Female life guards are brought in. The pool, which is on the building’s third floor, has no windows so they don’t have to worry about prying eyes from outside.

St. Paul Police Chief Tom Smith had discussions with Britts to let the Y know that, through the department’s connections with the Somali-American community, they had learned that such a group was needed.........

Funding for the group comes from two metrowide water safety grants from Hawkins Inc. and Abbey’s Hope Charitable Foundation. The police department helps provide transportation for the girls to the YMCA.

As the author of that piece notes:

Taxpayers now pay St. Paul cops to taxi Muslims to sharia-compliant swim classes. It’s creeping along in many cities .

[clee1]

As a matter of fact.... YES, that does bother me.

Reasonable accommodations are.... reasonable. Such as the case with this new cop. Clearing out other citizens from a public pool so that Muslims can swim w/o being seen by others is NOT a reasonable accommodation - that is abject surrender to the dictates of a particular religion. AFAIC, I wouldn’t like it any better or worse than the Catholic Church getting a city to require that everybody got to confession.