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SLAM: TWO WOMAN BATHE FULL-CLOTHED,LIFEGUARD MAKES THEM LEAVE
http://www.agi.it/english/news.pl?doc=200409071439-1078-RT1-CRO-0-NF51 ^

Posted on 09/12/2004 1:53:38 PM PDT by mastercylinder

(AGI) - Bolzano, Italy, 7 September - Two Muslim women went into a swimming pool fully clothed - wearing a tunic and the veil as their religion demands - to accompany their children as they were bathing. Other swimmers protested to the lifeguard who immediately asked them to get out of the water. This took place at the Lido di Bolzano. The Council has spoken about 'respect for the rules' and 'health reasons'. The leaders of the Muslim community in Bolzano understand the ban on swimming in a chador, but at the same time have asked for women only pools as there are in Muslim countries. The two women, accompanied to Bolzano's lido by their children and a man, after having taken the sun while dressed, wanted to refresh themselves. They approached the pool, to follow their children, entered the water and then faced the 'revolt' of a large number of bathers. "Things like that should no longer happen. There is a rule. One cannot get into the pool while clothed, but only in a swimming costume - argued Giustina Marinucci, Bolzano Council's director of sport. "I respect the Muslim religion, but they need to adapt, as we do when we enter their mosques. There are hygienic reasons for the ban on entering a pool while dressed." Aboulkheir Breigheche, the head of the Muslim community said: "In Italy it may be necessary to create pools just for men and just for women. They are free not to respect Islam, but the religion permits bathing just in costume only if there are just women present." (AGI)


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1 posted on 09/12/2004 1:53:40 PM PDT by mastercylinder
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To: mastercylinder
Posted here.
2 posted on 09/12/2004 1:55:43 PM PDT by TomServo ("Hi, welcome to Deep 13, would you like to try a creamy thruster-buster?")
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It's a hygienic thing...one should bathe and switch to clean clothes before entering a pool.

Maybe if they had a special "bathing burka", that would be ok.


3 posted on 09/12/2004 1:56:01 PM PDT by Tax Government (Wage unrelenting economic war on the illiterate, stupid lying bastards at CBS.)
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"Aboulkheir Breigheche, the head of the Muslim community said: "In Italy it may be necessary to create pools just for men and just for women. They are free not to respect Islam,...""

So what is the problem? Moslims should build private pools or have Moslim only facilities built and funded by themselves.

Ever hear of clubs?


4 posted on 09/12/2004 1:56:18 PM PDT by OpusatFR (Let me repeat this: the web means never having to swallow leftist garbage again. Got it?)
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To: mastercylinder
Aboulkheir Breigheche, the head of the Muslim community said: "In Italy it may be necessary to create pools just for men and just for women. They are free not to respect Islam, but the religion permits bathing just in costume only if there are just women present."

Culture creep.

5 posted on 09/12/2004 1:59:11 PM PDT by TADSLOS (Right Wing Infidel since 1954)
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It never ceases to amaze me... You have to assume that, all things being equal, their new country is better than their old country. Why else would they move? And, f it turns out that it's not (for them at least) quite the heaven they hoped for, why not just go back to your old country? If the whole western thing is a problem, stay where you are! It's also amazing how some of these guys want to turn the country they fled to, into the country they fled from.


6 posted on 09/12/2004 2:04:02 PM PDT by Trippin
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Yup. Another cesspool.


7 posted on 09/12/2004 2:06:40 PM PDT by OpusatFR (Let me repeat this: the web means never having to swallow leftist garbage again. Got it?)
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"Aboulkheir Breigheche, the head of the Muslim community and brother-in-law of Ahkmooukheirbierhckimoninkmanu Keibomeninikouboutikhcaundeckistnikimou, said..."


8 posted on 09/12/2004 2:11:54 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Thank you Rush Limbaugh-godfather of the New Media.)
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So what is the problem? Moslims should build private pools or have Moslim only facilities built and funded by themselves.

Ever hear of clubs?

They will never build clubs because this is about changing the culture, not swimming.


9 posted on 09/12/2004 2:41:30 PM PDT by mlmr (George Bush is the best choice for American Safety and for our children's future.)
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There you go. Problem solved!


10 posted on 09/12/2004 3:11:23 PM PDT by tob2 (Old fossil and proud of it.)
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To: Trippin

Another wonderful solution to the problem!


11 posted on 09/12/2004 3:12:34 PM PDT by tob2 (Old fossil and proud of it.)
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It's also amazing how some of these guys want to turn the country they fled to, into the country they fled from.

Pretty much like Californians, you mean?

12 posted on 09/12/2004 4:27:08 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch (The world needs more horses, and fewer Jackasses!)
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