Swimming in modesty

newsobserver.com ^ | 01/01/09 | Yonat Shimron

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

I swim at this pool and read a similar article yesterday. What a load of crap.

[TornadoAlley3]

[Perdogg]

I saw a muslim woman swim at my pool. She wore a jogbra and some shorts and that ended up see through after getting wet.

[pnh102]

Geez. Build your own damn pool.

[the invisib1e hand]

In mostly Muslim countries, it is common to have separate pools for men and women. But in the United States that's virtually unheard of...

Perhaps it's because the United States isn't a muslim country.

And incidentally, it's never gonna be.

Get the old man to put a pool at the house, and youse can all meet there.

[GAB-1955]

Why? If they want to rent the pool for a private party, why should they be different, say, than a nudist group?

[DonaldC]

In the fundamentalist circles I am in, the discussion of modesty has come up a lot. For example, many think a skirt wearing woman is more modest than one wearing jeans...and it goes on. But consider this, the more modest woman is the one not drawing unwarranted attention to herself. A woman entering a pool in a swimsuit is not going to attract more attention to herself because every other woman at the pool is wearing the same thing. On the other hand, the woman wearing the body tent is going to attract all kinds of lookers. So who in reality is being the most modest?

[OCC]

So I assume they are allowed to drive? The Raleigh area has a large Muslim population for some reason, including many Palestinians.

[JillValentine]

If these members of the Cult of Hating Sex are so insistent on “modesty,” they can either build their own pool (with all private money, not one cent of taxpayer money) or go back to whatever Muslim sh*thole they came from. It’s incredibly arrogant, rude, and unethical of them to demand that a host country change its customs.

I work out. I like going to the beach or the pool in a bikini. I’ll keep my bikini, and they can keep their abayas - in their private pools, or in their Muslim countries.

[bethybabes69]

"I see this as sign of Muslims learning to operate within American civic institutions," said Omid Safi, a professor of Islamic studies at UNC-Chapel Hill.

To paraphrase:

"I see this as sign of Americans having to waste money, and compromise the American way of life, in order to cater for ridiculous cult-like demands" said bethybabes69, a citizen who's fed up of seeing this very same agenda day in, day out.

[NoGrayZone]

But in the United States that's virtually unheard of, and as a result many Muslim women grow up not knowing how to swim.

Then get a freakin pool in your own backyard and invite all your mooslim women friends over!

[GATOR NAVY]

Why? If they want to rent the pool for a private party, why should they be different, say, than a nudist group?

I agree. What pisses me off is when muslims demand that their beliefs be accommodated and that taxpayers pick up the tab (i.e foot washing facilities in public rest rooms, etc.) but that's not the case here. I'm fine with them paying for the pool time and the blinds if they want special treatment.

[pnh102]

I like going to the beach or the pool in a bikini.

And you have pictures to prove this. ;)

[stylin19a]

And incidentally, it's never gonna be.

unless if this crap keeps up

[driftdiver]

Just for the records, I like bikinis too. Not that I’ve ever worn one.

[bill1952]

And you have pictures to prove this.

Yeah, I am skeptical, as well.
Lets see some proof. ;^)

[bethybabes69]

Why? If they want to rent the pool for a private party, why should they be different, say, than a nudist group?

They shouldn't, but they are objecting to sharing space with ordinary Americans, based solely on their own extreme cultural beliefs, not because they want to celebrate in a group activity, it's just recreational swimming.

The dangerous precedence here is the minute that happens, you are creating segregated societies, just like South Africa had, buses, cinemas, swimming pools for whites and blacks etc.

You simply cannot have a balanced, peaceful community whilst one group refuses to associate with another, and thence you create a multicultural dumpster, a place where your future terrorists are borne out of. Come to Yorkshire, I'll take you for a drive, 10 miles from my home, and I'll show you that dumpster first hand.

These tiny steps are so important, they'll incessantly eat away at your way of life.

[tx_eggman]

Maybe it's just me, but I prefer seeing this:

to seeing this

[SatinDoll]

Wearing a large amount of clothing will comdemn you to drowning no matter how well you know how to swim.

How stupid can a person or political movement be? Islam is not a religion but a political movement.