Muslims shouldn’t be taught martial arts.
I lived in Halifax for more than 10 years. It’s a small Canadian city with a total population of about 350,000, with a mix of urban, suburban and rural (mostly fishing villages and coastal properties). 15 years ago the muslim population was barely visible. Those muslims that did live in Halifax were quite secular in their dress and habits and they mingled quite freely with the local population (a mix of Scottish, Irish, English and French - with a smattering of immigrants and some descendants of freed American slaves). 15 years later, the muslim population has exploded and the newcomers are coming from hardcore middle eastern countries and bringing their strident islamic views with them. It is very common now in Halifax to see women with the Niqjab or full Burka, men with long beards and multiple “wives”.
Does anyone really think that several thousand hardcore muslims from hot, dry middle eastern countries chose to settle in a coastal Canadian city that is cold and damp in winter and which has nothing to offer them in terms of food markets, restaurants or mosques?
The powers that be in the middle east are colonizing western countries and they are doing so in a way that will ensure that muslims populate every town, village and city in North America, as they have in Europe. They want to make it politically impractical for politicians to criticize islam and they have no intention of blending into Canadian or American society. Although still relatively small in terms of the overall population of Halifax, they already have a couple of muslim private schools and have plans to build a mosque. The Trojan Horse of immigration has ensured that the enemy is already within the city gates.
Yours is the first comment I've seen on that track, and that was my initial thought. The recreation center may have a non-discrimination policy, but any martial arts instructor must discriminate, or subsequently could be held liable for the mis-use of what he/she teaches.
One solution would be to teach completely separate classes, by skill level, at the approval of the instructor(s).
Personally, I would never (these days) teach anything above beginner level techniques to a muslim, or a communist, on an inner-city yute, or any other person of questionable character -- and the only way to determine their character is to observe their behavior in the beginning classes and their interactions with other beginning students.
Many Japanese martial arts schools have done this to American students since the USA dropped the boomers on a couple of their cities. American students in Karate classes generally get ten or fifteen years of horribly disfiguring calisthenics, with very little useful martial arts skills beyond the horribly taught poor forms of basic punches, blocks, and kicks (along with a whole lot of totally useless Japanese yells for "soy sauce" and "saki").
A good instructor would save the aikido (or hapkido) skills for the "advanced" classes, and have the muslim new-comers square off against a concrete wall for ten or fifteen years of straight-toe kicks, finger spears, head-butts, etc.