Posted on 03/15/2007 10:32:37 AM PDT by DogByte6RER
No burqini, Muslim woman in London takes sauna in full hijab
From our Correspondent
London, Mar 15: It's not known whether she wanted to make a statement by her action or was it just an expression of her religious sentiment, but a Muslim woman surprised everyone when she took Sauna bath wearing a full hijab and then jumping into a swimming pool in the same robe.
Subsequently, she changed out of her wet hijab into a dry one and left the David Lloyd Leisure Centre in Oxford, alone.
She was allowed to swelter in a sauna because the Centre's worried staff did not want to offend her. But, after the incident, Centre manager Liam MacGilp briefed all pool and sauna attendants on the company's policy not allowing attending sauna baths or swimming pools in outdoor garments, reported The Sun.
According to the paper, the Centre staff did not know if they should enforce a dress code that asks customers to wear suitable clothes.
People in the sauna - all wearing normal swimming cossies - were amazed as the woman joined them in the steam room in her robes.
A surprised Muslim spokesman Taj Hargey asked: "How can you swim properly if you wear a hijab?"
Members of the David Lloyd Leisure Centre said they were baffled by the women's actions. Club member Ian Caldwell (46) was sitting in the sauna when the fully-dressed woman walked in.
He said: "I pointed out that it was a sauna and asked her if it was appropriate. All the other women in there were all in bathing costumes. When I saw her in the pool later, she was still wearing the Islamic outfit. The pool attendant said she was allowed to wear this due to her religious customs. It was just political correctness gone completely barmy. To be serious, this is a question of hygiene, not religious rights."
Reacting to the incident, Taj, the chairman of the Muslim Educational Centre in Oxford, said: "Wearing a veil is nothing to do with Islam, it is a cultural tradition. People should have appropriate swimwear when they come to a leisure centre. It is basic common sense."
The incident demonstrated a problem among some Muslim women in Britain, he said and added:
"They think this is their way of making a statement, but this is the worst possible statement.
They are shooting themselves in the foot."
Maybe this muslim woman just wanted to use the swimming pool to wash her hijab and then she used the sauna to get all of the wrinkles out!
However, it's strange that she would iron the wrinkles out of her hijab in the sauna BEFORE she washed it in the swimming pool. Oh well...what can you expect from an ideology that is still stuck in the 14th century?
Probably just some sicko crossdresser wanting to be noticed.
Probably just some sicko crossdresser wanting to be noticed.
Sounds like a Saturday Night Live sketch to me. Too bad John Belushi isn't around to play one of the Muslim women getting tripped up, falling down and smothering in the steam. He would be perfect.
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That's cute.
I thought it was against health regulations to wear street clothes into a comminal pool.
So glad to see they have resurrected the show "Smurfs Live!" for a new national tour!
Common sense, indeed. If we read more such reactions to modern day activities and events, there would not be such a divide between Islam and other western religions and traditions.
Do these awful creatures have any idea how despicable they are?
She's probably just trying to hide all the bruises, wounds, and scares from her abusive Muslim husband. Those freaks don't know anything but violence. Forget the usual family verbal argument, I'll be her hubby just smacks her on the knees Tonya Harding style.
If "she" wore the hijab the whole time... how can they be sure "she" was a she?
I wonder how this would have gone down in Germany, where you are required to go naked in the sauna?
She probably is a he who just wanted to go into the sauna to ogle the naked she people who were there.
We used to have a guy who went to an exercise salon and never did any exercises.
He just sat on the sideline and ogled the women who were doing the exercises. (a girl told me, I never went to see for myself.)
Well, if she can wear her burka, I can wear cut offs. But if she thinks mixed sauna and spa use if going to be banned because that's against her blood cults customs, she can take a hike.
If she proved anything by her actions, she proved how freakin' retarded muslims are. Go ahead muslima, Knock yourself out, jump off the diving board at the deep end in a full length burka, see if I care.
Don't expect effective CPR through that grill though.
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