Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Theme park calls off "Muslim Fun Day"
Reuters ^ | Aug. 2, 2006

Posted on 08/02/2006 1:34:33 PM PDT by COUNTrecount

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's biggest theme park has called off the country's first "National Muslim Fun Day" because of lack of interest, the park said Wednesday.

Alton Towers in central England was to open on September 17 for Muslims -- with halal food, a strict dress code and prayer areas.

Music, gambling and alcohol were to be banned for the day and theme park rides such as "Ripsaw," "Corkscrew" and "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" all segregated by sex.

But the park said the event's organizers, Islamic Leisure, who rented the park for the day and were marketing the event, had called it off due to "insufficient ticket sales."

"Alton Towers is disappointed that the planned Family Fun Day Sunday 17th September has had to be canceled," the park said in a statement. A park spokeswoman said Islamic Leisure would refund those who bought tickets.

Islamic Leisure's phones were not being answered on Wednesday.

Organizers had hoped to fill a niche for Britain's 1.7 million Muslims, some of whom may be uncomfortable with mainstream entertainment.

But the fun day had caused some consternation: a non-Muslim couple scheduled to hold their wedding at the park's hotel complained to newspapers that event organizers told them the bride and female guests would have to cover up.

The park promised the party would be exempt from the rules. A park spokeswoman said the wedding would take place as planned.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: alreadyposted; didntsearch; dukplicatepost; duplicate; duplicatepost; nevermind; readmorepostless; searchfirst; searchingisfun; themepark; ukmuslims
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-5051-54 next last

1 posted on 08/02/2006 1:34:35 PM PDT by COUNTrecount
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: COUNTrecount

Fun is against Islam!


2 posted on 08/02/2006 1:35:18 PM PDT by MNJohnnie (Fire Murtha Now! Spread the word. Support Diana Irey. http://www.irey.com/)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: COUNTrecount

Fun? Not interested. Read our book.


3 posted on 08/02/2006 1:36:16 PM PDT by siunevada (If we learn nothing from history, what's the point of having one? - Peggy Hill)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: COUNTrecount

"Muslim Fun Day"?!?

Let me guess, all participants receive a complimentary bomb belt and an AK-47?


4 posted on 08/02/2006 1:37:08 PM PDT by mkjessup (The Shah doesn't look so bad now, eh? But nooo, Jimmah said the Ayatollah was a 'godly' man.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: COUNTrecount
Theme park calls off "Muslim Fun Day"

Issue your own fatwah..only 10 cents. 2 nickels, 10 pennys. FATWAHS HEEERE!GET YOUR FATWAHS!!!!!!!!!!


5 posted on 08/02/2006 1:37:12 PM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: COUNTrecount

Called off due to "isufficient ticket sales".

Just more proof that another thing Muslims are trying to eliminate is anything FUN. Being called on to martyr oneself just doesn't add up to my kind of fun.


6 posted on 08/02/2006 1:37:26 PM PDT by hoagy62 (America: SUPREME!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: 75thOVI; Abathar; albee; Alice au Wonderland; Amityschild; andie74; Andy'smom; Augustus McCrae; ...

No amateurs, please.
Send FReepmail if you want on/off ISHP list
The List of Ping Lists

7 posted on 08/02/2006 1:37:35 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: COUNTrecount

Doesn't muslim fun generally involve prodigious quanities of Semtex and rusty nails?


8 posted on 08/02/2006 1:37:46 PM PDT by AngryJawa ({NRA}{IDPA})
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: COUNTrecount

They just realized that most of the things Muslims considered 'fun' were actually regarded as War Crimes under International Law.


9 posted on 08/02/2006 1:38:21 PM PDT by Borges
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: COUNTrecount
National Muslim Fun Day?

Considering recent history; perhaps we should do more research into what MUSLIMS consider FUN!(before we schedule it)

Think hard...

10 posted on 08/02/2006 1:38:40 PM PDT by Van Jenerette (Your Republic...if you can keep it!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: AngryJawa

That, and being blown to hash.

I'll skip, thank you.


11 posted on 08/02/2006 1:38:49 PM PDT by hoagy62 (America: SUPREME!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]

To: COUNTrecount

Gee, I'm sorry that the Islamic IMMIGRANTS aren't comfortable with the cultural standards of the country that they willingly MOVED TO.

I would guess that more gender segregation is coming in schools, restaurants, movie theaters, and public transportation so Islamic immigrants can feel comfortable. Maybe we can do aware with British law and replace it with Islamic law. How about requiring modest clothing for women and beards for me?

If I demand a beer and individual rights in an Islamic country, I'm an imperialist. If an Islamist wants to change my culture, I'm supposed to lie back and think of England.


12 posted on 08/02/2006 1:39:13 PM PDT by redpoll (redpoll)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: COUNTrecount

maybe they'd have filled the place up by, instead of calling it Muslim Fun Day, they'd have called it "Kill An Infidel of Your Choice Day"..


13 posted on 08/02/2006 1:39:13 PM PDT by GeorgiaDawg32 (I'm a Patriot Guard Rider..www.patriotguard.org for info)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: COUNTrecount

The event was called off once prospective customers realized suicide bomb vests, beating your wives into submission were not permitted and that Jews would be allowed into the park that day as well.


14 posted on 08/02/2006 1:39:15 PM PDT by TheKidster
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: COUNTrecount
"National Muslim Fun Day"

called it off due to "insufficient ticket sales."

Sometimes the jokes just write themselves........
15 posted on 08/02/2006 1:39:25 PM PDT by day10 (Whenever you come near the human race, there's layers and layers of nonsense.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: siunevada

Well--how much fun is being at a theme park in a burqua covering your face and most of the rest of your body, being in segregated lines for the rides, and stopping often to face wherever they face to pray?


16 posted on 08/02/2006 1:39:33 PM PDT by basil (Exercise your Second Amendment Rights--buy another gun today!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: COUNTrecount

There's a related story about a wedding booked in advance that was informed by the park's hotel that all attendees would have to comply with Islamic dress codes...even though the Islamic day was booked after the wedding. Hope the wedding party sues the heck out of the park to make an example.


17 posted on 08/02/2006 1:39:36 PM PDT by peyton randolph (Time for an electoral revolution where the ballot box is the guillotine)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: COUNTrecount

Too bad. Now they can't get to play, "Fly the plane into the building." They'll miss the "Jew stabbing competition," too. I guess, Muslims can't ever get a break.


18 posted on 08/02/2006 1:41:58 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY ((((Truth shall set you free))))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: COUNTrecount
I bet there are some disappointed cheerleaders out there..

Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting

19 posted on 08/02/2006 1:42:02 PM PDT by AdvisorB (For a terrorist bodycount in hamistan, let the smoke clear then count the ears and divide by 2.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: COUNTrecount
a strict dress code and prayer areas. Music, gambling and alcohol were to be banned for the day and theme park rides such as "Ripsaw," "Corkscrew" and "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" all segregated by sex.

Gotta love those muslims. They are just so pure and holy. Of course they think nothing of killing innocent woman and children that don't happen to believe what they do and cutting off people's heads, but that's a different story

20 posted on 08/02/2006 1:42:12 PM PDT by paul51 (11 September 2001 - Never forget)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: hoagy62

Just wait, this kind of nonsense will come here to America, brought to you by liberals and the P C police.


21 posted on 08/02/2006 1:43:30 PM PDT by Plains Drifter
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]

To: martin_fierro

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPc65cYtFjI&search=spageti

muslim women eating spaghetti.......now that's fun!


22 posted on 08/02/2006 1:43:56 PM PDT by sheana
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: COUNTrecount
The theme park would have had a much better turn out if it had rides such as;

Kill the Infidel. ( knives and cutting devices provided free.)

Make me a Martyr. ( this ride flings the Islamic into a concrete wall with a painting of Mohammad on it)

Shoot the Rocket at the Jew. ( hand held rocket launchers free to the first 20,000 muslims.)

And everyones favorite ride

The Spontaneous Riot ride ( dozens of hate filed muslim clerics chant as riders get in a fevered pitch to go on a jihad.)
23 posted on 08/02/2006 1:43:58 PM PDT by A message (We who care, Can Not Fail)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: COUNTrecount
Theme park calls off "Muslim Fun Day"

Talk about two words that don't belong together - "Muslim" and "Fun" are them!!! No wonder it was called off, even Muslims know they don't have fun.
24 posted on 08/02/2006 1:44:24 PM PDT by DustyMoment (FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: AngryJawa

"Doesn't muslim fun generally involve prodigious quanities of Semtex and rusty nails?"

Not all the time. Sometimes they prefer to firebomb an embassy or simply burn an efigy.


25 posted on 08/02/2006 1:44:32 PM PDT by diverteach
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]

To: hoagy62

Muslims are always trying to eliminate everything. Theirs is a religion of destructiveness, not nurturing and a love of creating.


26 posted on 08/02/2006 1:44:38 PM PDT by Niuhuru
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: COUNTrecount

What? The theme park calls off Muslim Fun Day? Heads will roll! (maybe that's why they canceled it)


27 posted on 08/02/2006 1:47:10 PM PDT by Christian4Bush (To exercise your first amendment rights, go to college. To defend them, join the military.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: COUNTrecount
"National Muslim Fun Day" --- Music, gambling and alcohol were to be banned for the day and theme park rides such as "Ripsaw," "Corkscrew" and "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" all segregated by sex.

How can anyone stand that much fun!?

28 posted on 08/02/2006 1:47:24 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: COUNTrecount
This should be good news for the poor bride who scheduled her wedding for Sept 17 at this amusement park.

She was told that she and the bridal party would have to adhere to muslim rules if they wished to ride any of the rides.

London Telegraph Story

29 posted on 08/02/2006 1:47:46 PM PDT by MediaMole (9/11 - We have already forgotten.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: diverteach
Not all the time. Sometimes they prefer to firebomb an embassy or simply burn an efigy.

Yep. Sometimes less is more, you know?

There are days when you just don't have the time or energy to atomize yourself and a bus full of Jews. 8^)

30 posted on 08/02/2006 1:49:25 PM PDT by AngryJawa ({NRA}{IDPA})
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 25 | View Replies]

To: COUNTrecount

>> Music, gambling and alcohol were to be banned for the day and theme park rides such as "Ripsaw," "Corkscrew" and "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" all segregated by sex. <<

Oh, fun! I can't possibly imagine why hundreds of thousands weren't crashing the gates!

(/sarcasm)


31 posted on 08/02/2006 1:50:35 PM PDT by dangus
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: COUNTrecount; martin_fierro; sheik yerbouty

Well I won't be heading there anyway.


32 posted on 08/02/2006 1:52:57 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: COUNTrecount

Have these dummies read the Q'uran?


33 posted on 08/02/2006 1:53:48 PM PDT by evad
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: COUNTrecount

Peta objected to that game played on horseback with the dead goat.


34 posted on 08/02/2006 1:56:28 PM PDT by paddles
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: COUNTrecount

"Hit the Infedel with a stone and win a burka for your 'lovely' date! Only £1 per stone! Step right up!"


35 posted on 08/02/2006 1:56:52 PM PDT by BJClinton (What happens on Free Republic, stays on Google.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: hoagy62
Called off due to "isufficient ticket sales". Just more proof that another thing Muslims are trying to eliminate is anything FUN.

Or that the kind of Muslim that goes to parks isn't interested in "Sharia Day" there, and the kind that is into Sharia doesn't go to parks

36 posted on 08/02/2006 2:03:17 PM PDT by SauronOfMordor (A planned society is most appealing to those with the arrogance to think they will be the planners)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: COUNTrecount

Hey, is that the one that was going to ruin that poor English couple's wedding? GOOD!


37 posted on 08/02/2006 2:06:27 PM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: COUNTrecount
"Britain's biggest theme park has called off the country's first "National Muslim Fun Day" because of lack of interest, the park said Wednesday. "

How sad is that. Really I wonder how DO Muslims have fun? I mean within their own traditions...not Westernized fun...their type of fun. Do they have picnics, movies, dancing, parties, puppet shows? Anyone know the true answer?

38 posted on 08/02/2006 2:11:52 PM PDT by Hound of the Baskervilles ("Well, Watson, we seem to have fallen upon evil days.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: COUNTrecount
Main attraction


39 posted on 08/02/2006 2:13:21 PM PDT by Cobra64 (All we get are lame ideas from Republicans and lame criticism from dems about those lame ideas.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: COUNTrecount

What! No interest?

You mean they were no takers for the throat slittling competition?

No one wanted to take part in the beheadings?

Nobody step up for the suicide bombing contest?

What's the matter with them?


40 posted on 08/02/2006 2:16:44 PM PDT by Wil H
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: COUNTrecount
They lacked the proper events like the Zionist Shooting Gallery, adulteress stoning and rocket relay.
41 posted on 08/02/2006 2:19:26 PM PDT by Mike Darancette ("The ecology of the Earth is not more complex than we think. It is more complex than we CAN think.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: COUNTrecount

Muslim Fun Day hasn't been cancelled, only relocated. See related post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1676486/posts


42 posted on 08/02/2006 2:21:58 PM PDT by TenthLegion (Have fun in life; you won't get out of it alive.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Plains Drifter

It already has. I recall reading of some park that had an exclusive Muslim day a year or two ago. I think it was Great America in New Jersey.


43 posted on 08/02/2006 2:22:31 PM PDT by xp38
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 21 | View Replies]

To: COUNTrecount

sure that's what I would to - take my family to a gathering of Muslims - good way to get murdered....


44 posted on 08/02/2006 2:24:07 PM PDT by Republicus2001
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: MediaMole

Thanks so much for posting that! I was wondering if this was the same theme park. What a relief for her!


45 posted on 08/02/2006 2:37:12 PM PDT by BlessedBeGod (Benedict XVI = Terminator IV)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 29 | View Replies]

To: COUNTrecount

The only fun that Muslims have is murdering Jews and Infidels. That is their entertainment.


46 posted on 08/02/2006 2:37:53 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: MNJohnnie; snippy_about_it

I guess when they cancelled the "Behead a Jewish Infidel ride" the muslims lost interest.


47 posted on 08/02/2006 3:21:13 PM PDT by SAMWolf (Don`t go there...And If you do don`t get comfortable.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: COUNTrecount
Muslim Fun Day

"One more lap around the rock and then everybody back to your goat herds."
48 posted on 08/02/2006 4:44:48 PM PDT by Blogatron (- Automated Freeping Device. (Please insert 2 cents for the next rightist harangue))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: COUNTrecount

Some of the things the organizers planned were, "Stone the Adultress", "Blow up the Ripsaw", "Blow up the Corkscrew", "Blow up Charlie and the Chocolate Factory." Then they were going to play, "Blamed it on the Jews". Then they were going to behead any of the staff who wouldn't covert to Islam.





49 posted on 08/02/2006 5:36:12 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault ("..this administration is planning a 'Right Wing Assault' on values and ideals.." - John Kerry)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: COUNTrecount

Whats next? The over 21 visit to a strip club?


50 posted on 08/02/2006 6:18:00 PM PDT by cardinal4 (America, despite the usual suspects, stands firmly with Israel..)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-5051-54 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson