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Preserving modesty in the pool (Muslim women in Seattle)
Seattle Times ^ | July 19, 2005 | Lornet Turnbull

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 ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: bathingbaathists; bleeding; dhimmitude; falsemodesty; heart; in; islam; liberalapologists; liberals; liberalweakness; modesty; muslim; muslimamericans; muslimwomen; privacy; purdah; religionofpeace; religionoftolerance; seattle; sharia; socialprocess; swimming; trop; ussacrifice; women
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To: Mrs. Don-o

Thank you God that I was not born a muslim!!!


61 posted on 07/19/2005 1:24:18 PM PDT by WestCoastGal (Jack erased my tagline, need a new one!! :))
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To: Mrs. Don-o

The article states public pools are modifying their hours, excluding others, telling male employees to go home, to allow a certain segment of society a privilege others do not have.

As I said, private, fine, but public pools, hell no.

If that's what they want, build a pool at the islamic centers and swim in burkas for all i care.

And if they wish to swim with clothes on, don't exclude others from a taxpayer run property for that privilege.




62 posted on 07/19/2005 1:25:17 PM PDT by swarthyguy
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To: montag813

Or a bomb


63 posted on 07/19/2005 1:25:31 PM PDT by mlc9852
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To: HamiltonJay

Muslim women have been programmed to do their job: function as terrorist incubators.


64 posted on 07/19/2005 1:25:57 PM PDT by ArmedNReady (Demand That Your Congressmen Declare Islam a Terrorist Organization)
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To: All
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 bath.

There. Fixed it.

65 posted on 07/19/2005 1:25:57 PM PDT by Prime Choice (Embrace all who seek the truth. Beware all who find it.)
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To: Rummyfan

Bingo! We have a winner!


66 posted on 07/19/2005 1:26:51 PM PDT by najida (The hardest person to forgive is yourself.)
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To: mlc9852; Mrs. Don-o

"Just so long as we never ask Muslims to conform to the American way of life. Just so long as we bend over backwards not to offend them. Just so long as we kiss their butts because we are so happy to have them in our country. I know I feel safer with Muslims in America."

You said what I was thinking, better than I thought it! :)


67 posted on 07/19/2005 1:26:52 PM PDT by brownsfan (Post No Bills)
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To: montag813
You wrote: "The way to fight them and win on this is via public health argument...that if someone is clothed you cannot see whether they have open sores or other such condition that might threaten their fellow bathers, and therefore it is unsafe to allow them in a public pool.

Explain to me why you want to "fight them and win."

Also explain to me why this argument wouldn't apply to swim-caps, swim-trunks, in fact any clothing at all.

Family story: my own granddmother is reputed to have begged off swimming, once, because she needed to repair the knees on her swim outfit. (Victorian--- and that's no secret!) :oD

68 posted on 07/19/2005 1:27:04 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Ears perked..)
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To: cvq3842

So they employ male and female lifeguards but kick out the male employees to accomadate the Muslims. This only makes the public pool party to the suppression of Muslim women by their jerk zip-wad men. Make them follow the pool rules and wear appropriate swimsuits.

Or....they could put their own swimming pools in their Islamic Centers that are so well financed with oil profits.


69 posted on 07/19/2005 1:27:46 PM PDT by Monterrosa-24 (Where is our Charles Martel? Who will be our hammer against Islam?)
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To: brownsfan
Are you nuts? You think it's rather nice to be completely segregated?!

What is the differnece between a group of muslim women renting the pool for their private use and me and my buddies renting it to have a cannonball contest?

70 posted on 07/19/2005 1:27:50 PM PDT by Phantom Lord (Fall on to your knees for the Phantom Lord)
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To: Prime Choice

ROFL!!!!


71 posted on 07/19/2005 1:27:53 PM PDT by goodnesswins (Our military......the world's HEROES!)
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To: swarthyguy

I'm certain you wouldn't mind a return of prayer to public schools, though.


72 posted on 07/19/2005 1:27:55 PM PDT by Junior (Just because the voices in your head tell you to do things doesn't mean you have to listen to them)
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To: evets

Sick people.
Why not just step into a drawstring garbage bag and tie it tight?
There is something seriously wrong when you 'hide' yourself from the world you live in and fear it.


73 posted on 07/19/2005 1:29:01 PM PDT by ClearBlueSky (Whenever someone says it's not about Islam-it's about Islam. Jesus loves you, Allah wants you dead!)
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To: Mrs. Don-o; All

OKAY....question....how many of YOU would really go swimming in a PUBLIC POOL in Seattle anyway?


74 posted on 07/19/2005 1:29:21 PM PDT by goodnesswins (Our military......the world's HEROES!)
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To: Red Badger
I once saw a muslim man and his wife here at the beach (Gulf Coast Florida) he was wearing shorts and a teeshirt. She was wearing a FULL body robe and a headscarf. the temp was in the 90's.

More proof that Islam is a cult religion for brainwashed...

75 posted on 07/19/2005 1:29:26 PM PDT by vox humana
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To: Mrs. Don-o

76 posted on 07/19/2005 1:29:26 PM PDT by najida (The hardest person to forgive is yourself.)
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To: swarthyguy
Slowly, but surely, America's society modifies itself for muslim demands

No. Modifying for muslim demands would require that the pool gives the pool time to the muslims free of charge to accomidate their religious requirements. They are not doing that. The muslim women and children are having to do what any other group would have to do to have private use of the pool for a period of time.

77 posted on 07/19/2005 1:29:26 PM PDT by Phantom Lord (Fall on to your knees for the Phantom Lord)
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To: Rummyfan

All it says in the koran is that women's breasts should be veiled, nothing about the face and head being covered.
Mecca must've been a fun place before old Mo'.

The burka was probably a preislamic mode of dress suitable for a hot sunny dry climate - preserves the skin from excessive dehydration and exposure.


78 posted on 07/19/2005 1:29:52 PM PDT by swarthyguy
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To: Mrs. Don-o

There is a movement with the Chrisitan community for women who take the biblical exhortation to cover their head literally and at all times. I found a website through them that sells modesty bathing costumes to them (or anyone that would want one I suppose). One of the suits was from a victorian pattern. Some are more like a wetsuit that ends just above the knee. I have seen Mennonite women standing in the surf just up to their ankles, because they can't wear a bathing suit.

There is something to be said for segegration in some things, where women can just be themselves, like Curves not allowing men into their excercise rooms. I like that. (Don't have to worry about sucking in my tummy when the guys aren't around :P).

If women of any religion are allowed in while these ladies have the pool, it doesn't bother me.


79 posted on 07/19/2005 1:30:26 PM PDT by vladima
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To: Phantom Lord

"What is the differnece between a group of muslim women renting the pool for their private use and me and my buddies renting it to have a cannonball contest?"


See post #42.


80 posted on 07/19/2005 1:30:35 PM PDT by brownsfan (Post No Bills)
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