Official approval: A model shows off her burkini
Posted on 06/23/2007 10:41:11 PM PDT by Stoat
Schools have been told they should allow Muslim girls taking swimming lessons to cover themselves from head to toe in special outfits dubbed burkinis.
An increasing number of pupils are insisting that conventional swimming costumes are "immodest" and, citing religious grounds, have been refusing to wear them.
Now councillors in Ealing, West London, are encouraging local pools to stock the £29 Lycra "burkinis" and instructing local schools to let girls wear them.
Teachers have even been given details of an online swimwear company that will deliver the two-piece burka-like outfits, which cover every bit of skin from the ankle to the neck and come with a head covering to conceal the hair.
Official approval: A model shows off her burkini
The burkini is recommended in a document from Ealing council's Standing Advisory Council on Religious Education, which says it wants to encourage "success through diversity".
One of the authors of the report, Nora Leonard, said: "The guidance suggests that the pools allow these burkinis and I have spoken to the firm which runs our pools and they are all in favour of it."
About a quarter of pupils in the area are Muslim and the burkini idea was approved to prevent girls trying to cover their bodies with other, unsuitable clothing during swimming lessons.
"Schools are being encouraged to allow burkinis because of that," Ms Leonard said.
The burkini was designed by an Australian after a group of lifeguards began a drive to recruit more Islamic lifeguards, particularly women, following violent clashes in 2005 between Lebanese Muslim teenagers and white Australians on Sydney's Cronulla beach.
Ealing has also put forward a string of other proposals to help schools meet the needs of Muslim pupils, including setting aside designated "quiet" areas for prayer and honouring "a parent's written request to take their child to the mosque for part of the afternoon".
Schools are also told that it is "good practice" to "reassure parents that their children would not be asked to join in with songs that contradict Islamic belief (eg Christmas carols or hymns) or perform music that could be considered to promote lust, seduction, unrestricted mixing and consumption of drugs, alcohol or other intoxicants".
The report adds: "As a general rule, forms of dance such as ballet, jazz, tango and disco are unacceptable if performed in a mixed environment."
There have been controversial demands from the Muslim Council of Britain for Islamic schoolchildren to be given separate changing rooms for sports and swimming, single-sex classes for sex education, prayer rooms, new rights to Islamic worship and different uniform rules.
The National Association of Head Teachers has dismissed the demands as "completely undo-able".
The suggestions come at a time when the Government is trying to eliminate segregation and encourage "British" values to tackle extremism.
Political Correctness: ”A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical liberal minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.”
By spreading this definition around, perhaps we can employ one of the more effective methods of deflating and defeating the fools who practice and promote it: RIDICULE.
Unless stopped – and soon – PC will DESTROY Western Civilization -- if it hasn’t already.
PASS IT ON!!
(Credit hereby given to my late cousin Karl Benton Clark for either creating this definition or bringing it to my attention)
Such repression of women's rights in these mideast countries, and we're considered the bad guys by the liberal establishment?
Working this summer as the naturalist at our local county park, we have plenty of bathing beauties down by the beach.
Too often though we need to inspect for wood ticks. Damn... someone's gotta do it! ;)
G'day Mate!
Something you might enjoy from one of my favorite Australian singers:
http://www.rolfharrisjukebox.com/
Sun Arise is still one of my all time favorites!
And the focus of the photograph on the foot and ankle, one of the few bits of skin showing.
There are American companies that manufacture and sell similar
outfits.Some of these have bloomers to the ankle, multiple layers, sleeves, etc.
Her ankles are showing! How scandalous! The whore!
Agreed, but unfortunately it doesn't appear to be interfering with their rat-like reproductive rate.
It is doubtful that even intensive therapy could help him.
I suppose that success depends upon which specific 'therapeutic' philosophy is implemented.....
America's Armed Forces.....providing therapy to those in need for over two hundred years.
I wonder which of those are violated by the old song, "Froggy Went A-Courting"
One thing that we can count on....the muzzies will ALWAYS find a way to be offended.
That is, until all non-muzzies are dead.
It wouldn't be of any concern to anyone if that was the only thing being demanded, but it's only one small part of the Muslim goal to remake the rest of the world into their twisted, Sharia-inspired vision.
From the article:
"There have been controversial demands from the Muslim Council of Britain for Islamic schoolchildren to be given separate changing rooms for sports and swimming, single-sex classes for sex education, prayer rooms, new rights to Islamic worship and different uniform rules"
The goal is not assimilation, but conquest and domination.
I have not noticed any evidence that muzzie men have the slightest regard for the comfort and dignity of women.
Such repression of women's rights in these mideast countries, and we're considered the bad guys by the liberal establishment?
The Left will always overlook every other evil in the world and focus solely upon the West, because it is the most successful culture in the history of the world and is therefore the greatest threat to the repression and totalitarianism that the Left wishes to inflict upon the rest of us.
I don't think that anyone else has a problem with them exercising their free choice either; I think that most here are taking note of this article not because of a desire to limit the choices of muslim girls or to force them into an immodest act but because it is one more example (and a highly visible one) of muslims forcing the rest of society to change in order to accommodate them and to mold itself into a uniform template of Sharia-inspired parameters. From the article:
Now councillors in Ealing, West London, are encouraging local pools to stock the £29 Lycra "burkinis" and instructing local schools to let girls wear them.
and
Ealing has also put forward a string of other proposals to help schools meet the needs of Muslim pupils, including setting aside designated "quiet" areas for prayer and honouring "a parent's written request to take their child to the mosque for part of the afternoon".
Schools are also told that it is "good practice" to "reassure parents that their children would not be asked to join in with songs that contradict Islamic belief (eg Christmas carols or hymns) or perform music that could be considered to promote lust, seduction, unrestricted mixing and consumption of drugs, alcohol or other intoxicants".
The report adds: "As a general rule, forms of dance such as ballet, jazz, tango and disco are unacceptable if performed in a mixed environment."
There have been controversial demands from the Muslim Council of Britain for Islamic schoolchildren to be given separate changing rooms for sports and swimming, single-sex classes for sex education, prayer rooms, new rights to Islamic worship and different uniform rules.
The "burkini" is merely a highly visible example of the overall muslim goal of resistance to assimilation and a gradual push toward remaking Western society into a Sharia culture.
I don't think that anybody would even take notice of the "burkini' if that was the only issue at hand.
The burkini was designed by an Australian after a group of lifeguards began a drive to recruit more Islamic lifeguards, particularly women, following violent clashes in 2005 between Lebanese Muslim teenagers and white Australians on Sydney's Cronulla beach.
This pisses me off! Instead of appeasing these teenagers, they should have ARRESTED THEM.
Agreed; we should not be forced to change Western cultural norms in order to appease others. If I were to move to Japan, as an example, I would not be marching in the streets, demanding that all outdoor signage be bilingual with English or that American food be served in Japanese school cafeterias. I would do my utmost to adapt myself to the cultural norms of the society in which I have chosen to live, and I think that most here are reacting in the way that they are because they expect a similarly congenial ethic to be demonstrated by those who choose to live in a Western society.
Given the brevity of your post I'm not entirely sure what your point is, particularly considering the fact that America is never mentioned in the article.
I have no doubt that any American company that manufactures such items would be delighted to sell them to anyone on Earth, including the Kingdom of Sauidi Arabia or Indonesia where they would most likely be enthusiastically welcomed by the local culture and society, and their use would not represent a radical departure from local cultural norms and ethics as they do in Great Britain. Furthermore, if it is this American company that is manufacturing the items being discussed in this article which focuses on Great Britain, it is not they who are "instructing" the schools to change their uniform policy, and it is not they who are "demanding" that other wide-ranging, radical changes to accepted Western cultural norms be made in an effort to appease a highly vocal and frequently violent, steadfast and strident minority.
Alas, it seems only radiotherapy can be effective..
And this shameless slut also has her face revealed! Quick, someone throw some acid on her!
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