Woman settles lawsuit after being barred from public pool wearing Muslim garb

AP ^ | 2.18.05

[ambrose]

Woman settles lawsuit after being barred from public pool wearing Muslim garb

LINCOLN, Neb. A Muslim woman in Omaha, Nebraska, says it's nice to feel like part of the community again now that a public swimming pool's dress code has been modified.

Lubna Hussein had been barred from accompanying her three children to the pool area because she was fully clothed, even though she wasn't going in the water. It took a federal lawsuit to get dress code altered.

The suit, filed by the A-C-L-U, has now been settled and the dress code accommodates religious or medical needs.

Hussein says she was twice turned away from the pool after explaining her religion requires her to keep her body covered, except for her face and hands.

Hussein says her little girls are looking forward to trying out the water slide.

[Brian328i]

So what exactly do her daughters wear into the pool, a full body wetsuit?

[1FASTGLOCK45]

This makes me sick!
What if these jihads start blowing themselves up because they are allowed to wear their garbs everywhere? I demand to see their faces when they are in public! It's a safety thing. Imagine all those guns they can hide under all those big coats.. Oh wait, don't they dress like this in NY already?

[SevenofNine]

If she was offend take the garb off LADY must been hot day

HELLO I don't get that Ambrose

I really don't get that
Let see she sue because the pool manager refuse allow her to wear the Muslum garb

SHUT UP

[Theo]

Read the article again, slowly this time.

The woman wanted to accompany her kids as they swam, but wanted to wear (very) modest clothing (per her religion). Her face is not covered. She's not jumping in the pool. Can you honestly see something wrong with that?

[Gondring]

This makes me sick!

What if these jihads start blowing themselves up because they are allowed to wear their garbs everywhere? I demand to see their faces when they are in public! It's a safety thing. Imagine all those guns they can hide under all those big coats.. Oh wait, don't they dress like this in NY already?

EXACTLY! I mean, everyone is flipping out and we are fingerprinting American citizens at the border because of the reported possibility of bra-bombs, and here we are allowing swimsuits at pools!

Obviously they think we're clueless dolts who don't know how to overreact! </sarc>

I daresay that it's an extremely low likelihood that some mother (or even a jihadist impersonating a mother) is going to choose to blow up a pool. In fact, if they feel they must attack someplace, a pool is about as low-threat as possible. It lacks walls to confine the blast or create shrapnel, and many of the potential victims will be shielded by the water (and if the blast is in the water, those outside will be protected).

Of course if nobody were in the pool at all, it would be one cool CANNONBALLLLL!!!

[politicket]

It's an interesting testament to our current society when a woman is ridiculed for being modest. It used to be that women were ridiculed for looking like prostitutes and praised for their modesty. Which one is scriptural for you Christians out there?

[jan in Colorado]

So, is it very common for a jihadist to impersonate a mother?

You really miss that Border thread, don't you?

[jan in Colorado]

Do you know what the dress code was before the woman filed a lawsuit to get it changed?

I didn't get the impression that she was ridiculed for being modest. In fact, I didn't get the impression that she was ridiculed at all.

She was turned away because she didn't meet whatever the dress code was for the pool at that time.

I'm so relieved that the ACLU was on top of this very serious human rights violation.</sarc>

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

I'm certainly a defender of modesty, as long as it is voluntary.

I'm not sure if the source of anger in some of these replies is so much in the issue of modesty as it is for the double standards.

Do you think the ACLU and the judiciary would have defended a priest taking some of his parish to swim in the pool and his right to wear his collar and suit? How about the Amish? I highly doubt it.

Once again, they seem to defend the PC and turn their back on the non-PC.

[sheik yerbouty]

Beware of people wearing medieval garb..

[cherry]

some pools require that anybody who goes thru the shower room out to the pool area be actually wearing a swimsuit.....otherwise, there is usually a seating section outside the fenced in pool area....

this might be the case here....

bigger question:.....how can any mother or father take away the joy of swimming from the daughters they supposedly love?......they are sentencing their girls to a life time of little freedom and joy......what a waste...

[politicket]

The ACLU should all be thrown into the pool (the deep end).

I was just making a statement about the change in American society where women dressing modestly violates somebody's set of "rules". That is ridiculous.

[Gondring]

So, is it very common for a jihadist to impersonate a mother?

Don't ask me... it was 1FASTGLOCK45 who started talking about jihadists. The article was about mothers. But just to cover bases, I included the paranoid-delusional route, too.

You really miss that Border thread, don't you?

Hmmm... although I never got many answers* about what people actually do advocate, I never dreamt we'd be having this debate about clothing!

Although banning modest clothing certainly has an ironic touch of moving us in exactly the direction UBL hates us for, that doesn't mean it's a good thing. Then again, I'm not going to argue if women want to run around nekkid and all... ;-)

--Gondring

*but I do give thanks to those who did answer!

[politicket]

bigger question:.....how can any mother or father take away the joy of swimming from the daughters they supposedly love?......they are sentencing their girls to a life time of little freedom and joy......what a waste...

I'm sure that she loves her daughters VERY much. That was really unfair of you to say that. She should actually be congratulated for teaching her daughters that modesty is something to uphold and the principal is MUCH more important than learning to swim.

[jan in Colorado]

Yes, Cherry, that is my point. If there was a rule as to the clothing required and the woman violated that rule, then I don't see that as her being ridiculed.

Of course, she had the ACLU to fight for her so she got the rule changed. This will open a Pandora's Box. The rules are changed one by one...special treatment is just the beginning.

[Gondring]

I think you're exactly right. The purpose of the dress code should be examined, however.

I also didn't get the impression that she was swimming.

I'm curious how many people would support taxpayer funds going to public mandatory-nude swimming pools. I wonder if this is a case of "my level of modesty is fine, but let's exclude those who hold different values"...pretty much the dictionary definition of "bigot": One who is strongly partial to one's own group, religion, race, or politics and is intolerant of those who differ.

[jan in Colorado]

>>>The ACLU should all be thrown into the pool (the deep end).<<<
On this we agree!
Can we add tied up and gagged?

You are making a false assumption.IMHO.

She WASN'T ridiculed for being modest. There is/was a dress code for the pool and what she was wearing violated that rule. Follow the rules or don't participate. That is, unless you can claim discrimination and then get the ACLU to get the rules changed for you. There will be many more rules changed in the weeks and months to come.

[Gondring]

The rules are changed one by one...special treatment is just the beginning.

Yep. Before you know it, those Christians will be demanding to get their "Christmas" as a holiday, or wanting to be allowed to educate their children at home instead of in the schools as is required! Heck, next thing you know we'll have wheelchair ramps and all kinds of special treatment going on! </sarc> <-- (okay, okay...beat me up for using sarcasm, jan...I deserve it! :-)

Of course, if we didn't use public funds for pools, this wouldn't be a problem, would it? ;-)

[Gondring]

I'd rather read the 2nd Amendment to the ACLU after they are tied up and gagged. They'd be begging for the pool--they'd rather die than acknowledge the RKBA is in the Bill of Rights!