Muslim-only swimming session irks London club members

DailyIndia.com ^ | December 10, 2006 | Indo Asian News Service

[DogByte6RER]

Muslim-only swimming session irks London club members

By Indo Asian News Service

London, Dec 10 (IANS) A row has sparked off over special Muslim-only swimming sessions at a popular public pool in Croydon during which bathers are required to be covered from head to toe with their swimming costume.

Non-Muslims may swim during the sessions, but only if they follow the strict dress code.

Women are banned from attending but have their own special swimming sessions outside opening hours.

The angry club members have vowed to hand over their memberships back to Thornley Heath leisure centre, according to Daily Mail newspaper.

'To make a special provision for them (Muslims) is just ridiculous and strikes me as imposing a 'Us and them' mentality which is wrong,' one member, Alex Craig said.

The centre is extremely popular locally as it is the only swimming pool offering cheap sessions for miles around.

'I turned up and saw a sign saying it was closing early for Muslim afternoon - I couldn't believe it,' said Daniel Foley.

'Muslims are not allowed to show intimate parts of their body. This is non-negotiable. Muslims have as much right to go swimming as anyone else,' a spokesman for the leisure centre said.

A local mosque has however defended the introduction of Muslim-only swimming sessions at the pool.

[DogByte6RER]

Welcome to Londonistan...now put on your burqua, bow down and face Mecca.

[DogByte6RER]

Here are some pool toys for the "Muslim only" swim day...

[CaptRon]

Muslims have as much right to go swimming as anyone else,' a spokesman for the leisure centre said.

Nobody is denying you that right. The fact that you have self-imposed rules for doing so is your own concern, no one else's.

[GATOR NAVY]

'Muslims are not allowed to show intimate parts of their body. This is non-negotiable.

So let them build their own damn pool.

[VOA]

Muslim-only swimming session irks London club members

So much for that Muslim belly-aching about not being allowed to
fully join (assimilate) into the society of a country they've chosen
to move to.
(to flee the Islamic hell holes they used to live in)

[Rummyfan]

'Muslims are not allowed to show intimate parts of their body. This is non-negotiable. Muslims have as much right to go swimming as anyone else,' a spokesman for the leisure centre said.

Sure they do. But if they insist in trying to impose their standard on other non-muslim swimmers, maybe they should just go get their own damn pool!

[VOA]

Bend over, infidels!

But make sure you have on proper Muslim attire!

[USMCWife6869]

Ah-ah-ah :finger wagging:

Can't have it both ways, people. I'd be ticked too. If they want to swim so bad, then build your own dang pool.

[east1234]

Hmmmm.... Skimmers working overtime and lots of Chlorine after these sessions.

[Millee]

ROFL!!!!!

[Old Professer]

Muslims aren't allowed to drive below 95MPH...

[TChris]

Most of Britain: "I, for one, welcome our new Muslim overlords!"

[Issaquahking]

Dhimmi's!!!

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

[conferencecaller]

and must always drive toward Mecca.

[Tatze]

[Eva]

The WSJ had a large front page article on the alignment of the old communists with the Muslim terrorists and how the two groups have joined together to fight America and capitalism. The article names Red Ken as a leader of the movement.

[reagan_fanatic]

[Quix]

Welcome to Londonistan...now put on your burqua, bow down and face Mecca.
= = =

AND

accept the . . . uhhhhh . . . sharp explosive prods, pokers, . . . of Ah-mad-de-nut-job and company.

[Quix]

Let them build a pool under their mosques. There are plenty and more than plenty of those cropping up everywhere.