And of course the 110 varieties of pork/ham laid out on the buffet with a roast pig prominently rotating on a spit above a fire.
Posted on 07/11/2006 7:59:10 PM PDT by Pikamax
Couple's wedding clashes with Muslim fun day By Nigel Bunyan
(Filed: 12/07/2006)
A couple's plans for a £5,000 wedding at Alton Towers were thrown into confusion yesterday after it emerged that the theme park had double booked them with a fun day for 20,000 Muslims.
Amanda Morris, 30, and her fiance, Scott Lee, 31, have been told that if they go ahead with the ceremony they will not be allowed to go on celebratory rides together.
Furthermore, Miss Morris and her female guests will have to cover up to be in line with guests of Islamic Leisure wearing hijabs. "I've been looking forward to this day for 18 months, and suddenly it's in ruins," she said yesterday.
"Everything was booked - the photographer, the hotel rooms, everything. Then some of our guests started getting letters saying they would have to cover up because it was a Muslim event.
"Alton Towers haven't even had the decency to let us know they had hired it out. It's not the Muslim event - it's not their fault that Alton Towers have double booked.
"The people with Islamic Leisure want their day as much as we do. I don't blame them at all. But Alton Towers shouldn't have done this. They should at least have rung us to discuss it."
Miss Morris, a recruitment sales advisor, and her fiance, a market trader, booked their wedding in the Emperor's Suite last year.
The bride-to-be said: "It's a nightmare. We have been planning this for so long and now this happens nine weeks before the ceremony.
"People are ringing us saying it must be a joke. I don't know what we are going to do now. I would still like the wedding to go ahead, but I just don't know how it will all work out. I'll be gutted if I have to cancel it now."
The couple, who live in Leeds, chose Alton Towers as the venue for their wedding because they have previously enjoyed staying in the complex's hotel.
At the time they made the booking the only date available was Saturday, Sept 16. They were happy to accept it, believing that they and the 60 guests for whom they had booked 20 rooms would be able to enjoy the following day on the rides.
Since then, however, Alton Towers have hired out the complex for its first Muslim fun day.
Believing that they and their own guests had the complex almost to themselves, Islamic Leisure drew up a list of requirements.
These included the provision of prayer areas and bans on music, alcohol and gambling. In the Muslim tradition, women would also need to cover their bodies, as well as going on rides separately to their menfolk.
The couple have since contacted Islamic Leisure, whose staff confirmed that the wedding party would be asked to adhere to their conditions.
Yaseen Patel, the organisation's director, confirmed: "The body will have to be covered, (though) they do not have to wear the hijab."
An Alton Towers spokesman said staff would be discussing "the options available" with the couple.
She claimed it was a condition of the Islamic Leisure booking that wedding and hotel guests would be exempt from the Muslim dress code.
Did anyone give any reasons as to why the wedding folk would have to conform to the muzzies' barbaric (I consider required hijabs and segregation to be barbaric) practices? Even if they didn't have first billing, why should they be able to state the dress code for a separate event? These muzzies have to operate in western society don't they? Sheesh.
You could drop a note to the Feds regarding her views. Possibly Elliot Ness would ask her about her green card.
Islam: the future for the Europe and the UK...and us?...
The rides could be 'adjusted'....whoooosh
How about the couple and guests gaily ignore the Muslims and ride together, go hijabless and generally raise consternation.
My guess is the wedding party booked only the hotel accommodations they needed for guests and the ceremony. They assumed the park would be operating normally during the time and sold the venue to friends and family as a good time for all after the wedding. It sounds like they are only conflicting in actual use of the park rides and other entertainment.
As for the Muslims, the men do accommodate to most western society but not the women. I'm sure their argument is that their women must be protected from western licentiousness by allowing them to go out only under the restrictest conditions.
That said, I think it is ridiculous to conform to Muslim standards in a western nation. They came here and should accommodate themselves to us, not the other way around. If the Muslim group had arranged for the park to serve only its members (or permitted nonmembers who voluntarily agree to conform to the standards it set), then I can perhaps understand the problem. I just have problems with ex poste facto applying those standards to people who had already booked to be there. The park should exempt the wedding party from the restrictions and tell the Muslims to reserve earlier next time.
"Those who bow to this make me ill."
Lighten up. Surely you realize that islam is a religion of peace? No?
Meanwhile islam was demon-strating its' peaceful religion in India today.
And of course the 110 varieties of pork/ham laid out on the buffet with a roast pig prominently rotating on a spit above a fire.
ping
Who enforces Sharia law if the wedding party guests DON'T WANT to cover up all the "naughty bits"?
I don't think that's the official law there...
yet.
Same thing.
Probably short for FUNdamentalist.
That's interesting.
Women in Iraq are not required by law to cover up and many of them don't. They dress like we do.
And yet, in the U.K. at a public amusement park, they can impose this crap on women??
There's something very wrong with that.
yeah..looks to me like this gal needs t9o contact a lawyer..
Don't forget to serve lot's of pork with a roasted pig's head as a centerpiece on the buffet!
damn straight...all over that plan like a bad rash. Dont forget the BBQ though.
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