Posted on 07/19/2005 1:03:41 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o
It's Saturday evening, the end of a hot day, and a group of women and children have gathered at North Seattle's Meadowbrook Pool for their monthly swim.
Most of the pool staff has left, except for two female lifeguards, who on this day will be on duty for the next two hours.
The women and children all Muslims have been swimming in private once a month at Meadowbrook as part of a program organized by the North Seattle Family Center.
Because Islam requires Muslim women to fully cover themselves in public, swimming in pools or the ocean is largely off-limits for many.
But across the Puget Sound area, that's starting to change as public and private pools at times are sending home their male staff members, covering up their windows and allowing women of faith to swim alone and in private...
Access to these pools is not free; the groups, like all others that use these facilities, pay a rental fee....
(Excerpt) Read more at seattletimes.nwsource.com ...
Unnngh! I spit bagel crumbs all over the keyboard. Now I'm going to have ANTS in the computer!
*****This is not the imposition of Shari'a in Seattle. In fact, maybe the gals'll get enough physical strength and confidence out of the deal to look their husbands right in the eye and say, "Bermuda shorts, baby --- and I don't mean maybe."
Pardon me for resorting to common sense to interpret the intent of masking the windows on the indoor pool with brown paper. By masking the windows, the women could then relax from the requirement to wear the burkas required to preserve public modesty dictates. Post #388 clearly supports that conclusion:
So I stand by my assertion - the women that swam in the pool behind the masked windows didn't have to wear the multiple layers of clothing to swim. Why mask the windows if they were going to wear burkas? As I said before. I'm sure they wore modest swimming attire though - and who cares.
"I regret having offended your delicate sensitivities with a single, sarcastic line in a single post"
Well darn it, it's the least you could do (laughing).
Don't tell anyone (Gold Star tax-chick might get peeved), my guess is Hillary's going to treat you to a cruise trip on the Rosie O'Donnell Fun Line with Janet Reno as the ships captain. Just a hunch.
;)
" This is done with the blessings of the mullahs and husbands are expected to beat their wives if necessary."
I wager beating the wives is a weekly "ritual". Ya know, give them a taste of what will happen if the wife ever decides to step outside the mullahs line of slavery. I choose to keep my sights focused on the big picture (problem).
At least I'll have tax-chick to pal around with. ;)
When are we leaving? Alaska would be nice, this time of year!
Yeah, we could watch the effect of global warming on glaciers. :rolleyes: :)
Heh heh! We could hop up to Barrow and agitate for drilling ANWR.
As a man who has dedicated much of my lifeling attention to getting women out of their clothes, I can't share in that sentiment. ;-)
I hadn't thought of that. The possibilities are endless.
We could wear NRA caps while shooting skeet - accidentally aiming at the odd seagull (did I say that out loud).
Before 911 it was very hard to convince people of the insidious nature of fundy islamism.
Prior history, cooperation with the US against the Soviets, and more importantly, a domestic US campaign talking about "revealed religions", "peoples of the book", conservative social values all helped disguise the true nature of the poisonous ideology and theology.
What's simply amazing and mindboggling is after 911, how Americans have responded in an openminded and tolerant manner, only to have the shariapurdah lifestyle insidoously permeate and infiltrate society.
With huge dollops of PC ness both on the left and right.
The Islamis certainly have our number.
"At least I'll have tax-chick to pal around with."
I'm not the "least" bit interested in who you pal around with. Now go build a bridge and get over your immature self while us grown ups discuss the terrorist problem.
My daughter wants to shoot skeet, and we already have NRA caps!
I have no problem with groups renting the pool for private pool parties.
With huge dollops of PC ness both on the left and right.
This thread deals with public access and private use in the context of a Muslim group. Some posters seem to be confused about the issues and laws regarding the situation. The applicable constitutional principle would seem to be:
Bill of Rights
Amendment I
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
On the other hand, if the context of thread were to be immigation policy and home land security, then I would advocate:
Banning swimming pool rentals by Muslim women and children is just ridiculous.
Then go to a thread that deals with the terrorist problem.
I have no problem with groups renting the pool for private pool parties.<<<<
Neither do I.
My comments reffered to the opression muslime wmen still live under while living in this free country. That kinda tells me something unpleasant about islamic control..
Inshallah! Allahu AKBAR!
This all comes down to ONE thing.
For the MONEY- there can be- and ARE-places in this country where SHARIA LAW is enforced!
For those dollars, a piece of America was rented out to Islam so IT'S rules could apply there.
Do we KNOW those women and children AREN'T praying/howling/caterwauling to allah before/during/after swimming? If they are- we just rented public space for religious rites!
Isn't it odd that Islam can have it both ways?
Be PROTECTED as a 'religion' when they support barbarism and terrorism, but be EXEMPT as a 'religion' when they want to use public property to follow their 'religious' law?
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