Look, the fact is that we are too accomodating towards a culture that has proven that its basic tenants seek to destroy the very humanistic values you espouse, by using them against you. First of all: "tenets." (I can't help myself. I'm a teacher.)
And second, if I preemptively abandon my "humanistic" values, I lose. But I choose not to lose. I choose not to abandon my "values." I choose to treat people --- yes, even Muslims --- as fairly as I can. It has something to do with the way I was raised. You can say "humanistic" if you want, but my choice of adjectives would run toward "Christian," "Western," "American."
If the Seattle Dept. of Parks and Recreation chooses to accommodate a couple of privacy-seeking mamas in lady-of-Fatima swimsuits, just as it accommodates the nudist groups (which it does) I don't see how that constitutes a threat to American National Security or Western Civilization.
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."
I'm there to cheer 'em on.
*****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."
This is ultimate naiveté. DO you know what, “"Bermuda shorts, baby --- and I don't mean maybe,’ represents to these women? It represents a beating administered to their bodies that we will never know about because they are always covered in public. The black and blue marks are covered up and no one reports them. Sharia law is enforced inside these households. This is done with the blessings of the mullahs and husbands are expected to beat their wives if necessary.
Take a step into their world and stop the bleeding heart liberal crock! And you want us to accept such a cover up?
I say we tear down the whole social initiative they have in this country and demand that they be Americans or keep their sharia and purdah inside their homes, so that victims like you do not presume to enable it. This social system is the same one that turns so called peaceful moderate Muslims into terrorists. When a woman is beaten one too many times , she is all the more happy to give herself over to Allah and strap on a suicide vest, because her God is her only refuge.
Its time we stopped allowing any of our pools to be temporarily converted into community harems.
Let them get their own pools and see if you would be invited to swim there in a burkah.
Then you can admire them up close without allowing purdah to be a "quaint" accepted social custom in the USA, rather than a social process that produces killers of innocent men, women and children. While your at it why not go whole hog and have your husband beat the crap out of your body, so you can wear a burkah in swimming and know one will know! That should satisfy your intrinsic liberal need to show them acceptance in the context in which it occurs, rather than in the false context that you, and others who think like you imagine.
Wake Up!