Posted on 03/04/2008 3:07:16 PM PST by zendari
BOSTON - In a test of Harvard's famed open-mindedness, the university has banned men from one of its gyms for a few hours a week to accommodate Muslim women who say it offends their sense of modesty to exercise in front of the opposite sex.
The policy is already unpopular with many on campus, including some women who consider it sexist.
"I think that it's incorrect in a college setting to institute a policy in which half of the campus gets wronged or denied a resource that's supposed to be for everyone," said student Lucy Caldwell, who also wrote a column in The Harvard Crimson newspaper critical of the new hours.
Student Ola Aljawhary, who is Muslim and works out elsewhere on campus but is not one of the women who requested the change, rejected that argument.
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Turban Sprawl
“The majority should be willing to compromise,” she said.
They teach them well up there at Harvard, LOL !!
while I’m sure it is to the benefit of the men to be banned from seeing these hogs workout, it is still a BS rule
Sharia Creep....
Coming to a campus near you.
signed,
Pigeating Crusader
Tolerance has come full circle!
But when Christians get offended, we get told to F-off!
Cut off their Title IX funding!!!
Nonsense — several muslim women work out at my gym without a problem.
“Sharia creep”...excellent phrase, elcid.
I never believed after 9/11 that I would see such a thing happening in the US. It’s almost as though 9/11 opened the doors and gave these primitive 7th century morlocks entry into our world. Personally, I think it was because of the Bush mantra: “It’s a Religion Of Peace.”
We all know it’s not.
Excellent new phrase.
That was as far as I needed to read.
Sharia Creep....
So it begins.
So where are the men only gym hours? Harvard accepts public federal funding correct? Sex discrimination is a big no no then.
They stand up for their values, Christians don’t.
Well it is sexist. Only the lesbians and transgendered get to look at the gals.
Now if they also established some decent male-only gym hours, where wimpy guys wouldn’t have to worry about looking wimpy in front of girls, then I think they were been (idiotically) even-handed about it. If we’re going to treat everyone equal and expect that everyone be treated equal, then put up or shut up.
Just a newer, trendier form of segregation, now being sanctioned by the liberal elite.
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