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You see how quickly and easily demands for special consideration in the name of civil rights -- which are granted in the name of fostering assimilation -- become exclusionary and supremacist. "Father and son banned from council swimming pool for not being Muslims," from the Daily Mail (thanks to all who sent this in):
A stunned dad and his little boy were banned from swimming at a popular public sports centre - because they are not Muslims.The man, known only as David T, and his 10-year-old son were stopped from going into the pool at Clissold Leisure Centre in Stoke Newington, east London.
Last night embarrassed management at the complex said staff were wrong to turn customers away from the designated 'men-only modesty session' on Sunday morning.
The council says the special early-morning get-togethers are aimed at community groups who have strict rules on segregation.
But the dad and his lad were prevented from swimming when they turned up at 9am on Sunday.
David T said: "I arrived at the pool to discover that they were holding what staff described to me as 'Muslim men-only swimming'.
"I asked whether my son and I could go as we were both male. I was told that the session was for Muslims only and that we could not be admitted.
"I asked to speak to the duty manager, who confirmed that this was the case."
He added: "I asked what would happen if I turned up and insisted I was Muslim.
"The manager suggested that they might ask the Muslims swimming if they minded my son and I swimming with them.
"If they didn't object, we might be allowed in."
The men-only modesty swimming sessions take place every Sunday from 8am to 9.30am.
Two websites have been advertising the sessions for Muslim men only....
Posted by Robert at April 17, 2008 1:55 PM
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He'll have to grow a beard and buy some nice "Asian" clothes.
Integration through segregation. The multicultural ideology.
It'll get worse. Much worse.
Posted by: pr126
at April 17, 2008 2:44 PM
Sue Myrick calls for Carter's passport to be revoked:
http://www.house.gov/list/press/nc09_myrick/041608carterpassport.html
at April 17, 2008 2:47 PM
Today, Rep. Sue Myrick will be on Fox News at 2:10pm (this is the estimated interview time set by Fox News so you may want to watch from 2pm-2:30pm). She is being interviewed by E.D. Hill regarding her call to revoke former President Jimmy Carter’s passport. Please tune in for this live interview, or set your recorders. Most people in the 9th District will find Fox News on Channel 57.
Rep. Myrick will also be discussing this issue today on WBT Radio (1110AM) with Jeff Katz at 4:05pm.
at April 17, 2008 2:48 PM
This is not "multi-culturism."
What this is, actually, is Islam's apartheid system in action.
Posted by: pythagoras
at April 17, 2008 3:21 PM
Are they going to sue for descrimination? I hope they do......If it were the other way around, the British equivalent of ACLU and CAIR would be all over this. They can sue for racial discrimination since islam is now a race. It should work both ways.
Posted by: Al-Insan-El-kamel
at April 17, 2008 3:22 PM
Two websites have been advertising the sessions for Muslim men only....
Apartheid?
Posted by: Dsinc
at April 17, 2008 3:25 PM
Islam is a race?
Then it stands to reason that Jews, Christians, Buddhists, Atheists, et al, should be considered a race too, right?
I thought Islam was a religion/governmental system.
The double standards are endless.
Posted by: champ
at April 17, 2008 3:30 PM
Victories for Muslims.
Pyrrhus victories, however.
at April 17, 2008 3:31 PM
champ said:
"Islam is a race?
Then it stands to reason that Jews, Christians, Buddhists, Atheists, et al, should be considered a race too, right?"
Yes - why sould we not turn the tables and accuse those selfsame muslims, who are squealing 'racism' at every opportunity, of being racist themselves, in their attacks on us?
Are kufir and dhimmi not racist terms?
So - can we now look forward to a wave of trials against muslims, because of their racism?
Would be good ...
Posted by: Calon Lan
at April 17, 2008 3:36 PM
And this facility is paid for by council tax? I hope he gets a rebate.
Posted by: Celsius
at April 17, 2008 3:40 PM
Obviously is this fellow and his son hardened islamophobes that did go there to offend and hurt the poor muslims religious feelings. They did get the unambiguous message that it was a kuffar-rein bath but the pigheaded islamophobes insisted, guess they are in for some serious reparations if the poor muslims can get their act together after the distress of this insult.
at April 17, 2008 3:47 PM
"The men-only modesty swimming sessions take place every Sunday from 8am to 9.30am."
What the hell is a men-only modesty swim session?
Posted by: johnb
at April 17, 2008 3:50 PM
This was all from Harry's Place (web site). The pool time are found on here.
Up until the article in the Daily Mail, you could find Muslim Men Swimming only times all over London, but someone rapidly updated the website to remove this choice. Actually, I wouldn't mind it, if only a a warning to others.
Posted by: Seymour Paine
at April 17, 2008 3:53 PM
Too angry to post.............will go and away and practice the Eight-Fold Path or something. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
Posted by: tanstaafl
at April 17, 2008 4:56 PM
This is just insufferable bullshit.
Posted by: undaunted
at April 17, 2008 5:19 PM
Another ridiculous question.....are these muslims using the pool for swimming or bathing?
A public health issue may be overlooked if these guys are not bathing regularly, will not shower before entering the pool and then consider this bathing.
And what about pool staff....are there women employees around? are they restricted from fulfilling their job because they can't access the pool area? what about the lifeguard? is the lifeguard male? is the lifeguard muslim?
And most importantly.....if they run along the edge of the pool and the lifeguard warns them not to run, do the muslim swimmers declare jihad on the lifeguard?
Posted by: alaskan1000
at April 17, 2008 5:25 PM
Muslim bigotry! Imagine a Christian only swimming time? Muslims aside, why the hell is there a men only swim time allowed at all. Gender segregation is sexist and not allowed in liberal societies, with some exceptions.
Posted by: James Martel
at April 17, 2008 5:26 PM
could it be perhaps that moslems view non-moslems as unclean that they don't want to swim with them?
If I lived there, I think I might want to pull up some research on how Jews and Christians weren't allowed outside in the rain so as not to sully the moslems and show it to those in charge of setting pool hours.
Posted by: eve_anne_gelical
at April 17, 2008 5:27 PM
Seems like orthodox Jews would also be very interested in this 'men-only' modesty session, if there are any left in the U.K.
Posted by: Infidel33
at April 17, 2008 6:05 PM
something to think about the next time you see a Muslim sue because they feel a little inconvenienced about something..
as Islam advances, civilization falls by the wayside.
Posted by: pulsar182
at April 17, 2008 6:41 PM
US offers Pakistan government $7bn in non-military aid to fight terrorism
The US has promised to curb air strikes by drones against suspected militants in Pakistan, as part of a joint counter-terrorism strategy agreed with the new civilian government in Islamabad, the Guardian has learned. That strategy will be supported by an aid package potentially worth more than $7bn (£3.55bn), which is due to go before Congress for approval in the next few months.The package would triple the amount of American non-military aid to Pakistan, and is aimed at "redefining" the bilateral relationship, US officials say.
Pakistan will also be given a "democracy dividend" of up to $1bn, a reward for holding peaceful elections and forming a coalition government. Of that, $200m could be approved in the next few days.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/apr/17/pakistan.terrorism
Amazing. Jizya has never worked. Its hard to believe that politicians havnt learnt anything since 9/11.
1.Our governments seem to think that money grows on trees.
2. This handing out our money to our sworn enemies has become a like a drug habit. They just have to give it away to Muslims, or have withdrawal symptoms.
at April 17, 2008 6:47 PM
I believe I read the Muslim men themselves have rules about how long their bathing trunks should be even with each other. IF dad and son got in the pool in anything shorter they risked being ravished by lust-crazed Muslim men. So, it was for their own good to be turned away.
Posted by: poetcomic1
at April 17, 2008 6:53 PM
Does anyone know what happened with the hairdresser who was being sued by a hijab wearing applicant? I think her name was sarah derossiers or something like that. I think she had her day in court in march but I can't find out anything more...
Posted by: nyone
at April 17, 2008 7:08 PM
swimming pool take over?
just wait until they takeover your church, your grocery store, your apartment building, your favorite restaurant, your families farm, the toll booth on the bridge, the utilities company, the radio station, the library, your childrens school, the nice park with the playground and your heritage and history.
at April 17, 2008 8:24 PM
“Last night embarrassed management at the complex said staff (including the duty manager I suppose) were wrong to turn customers away from the designated 'men-only modesty session' on Sunday morning.”
The embarrassed managers were all tap-dancing in unison, no doubt.
Let's be honest. This has probably been going on for some time; long enough, likely, that it really has come to be known, and accepted as, 'Muslim men-only swimming'.
O.K., there probably are non-Muslim men who, for whatever reason, would prefer a 'men-only' swim session.
But some questions do arise:
What group requested a ‘men-only’ session, who approved it, at what point did this morph into a ‘Muslim-men’ only session, how long had the Muslim website been advertising this as such, why didn’t ‘moderate’ Muslims blow the whistle on this, and more importantly, why didn’t staff members voice opposition to it?
at April 17, 2008 8:28 PM
Islam has no Gays, Ahmadinejad said so.
Posted by: pulsar182
at April 17, 2008 8:42 PM
I believe I'd rather swim in the East River than with that bunch...What is modesty for men? The older gents I know go around bare at the pools.
Posted by: CapitalistGig
at April 17, 2008 8:44 PM
It's time to start a new anti-apartheid movement. This time against gender and religious apartheid.
Let's rock and roll everyone!
Posted by: Voltaire
at April 17, 2008 8:53 PM
I've got nothing against multiculturism unless it involves muslims.
My propsed slogan is "Multiculturism YES, Gender and Religious Apartheid NO"
at April 17, 2008 8:58 PM
a poster asked: "What the hell is a men-only modesty swim session?"
They don't want women gazing upon their fat hairy bodies, I suppose.
I don't understand what's happening to Britain. Even in rabidly politically-correct Canada, no-one would be so stupid as to allow a "Muslim only" swim time in a public pool. Is it something in the water? Mass brainwashing? Post-traumatic stress disorder following 7/7 (they think that if they just do enough nice things for Muslims, they won't kill them anymore)? Someone please help me out here.
at April 17, 2008 9:27 PM
It seems that when Muslims demand gender-segregated spaces, those spaces somehow magically morph into "Muslim-only" spaces. They advertise them as such in their own communications, even if they don't call them that when dealing with the kaffirs. That's probably going to happen with the "Women only" gym hours at Harvard U and other places.
Posted by: angloirishslav
at April 17, 2008 9:37 PM
There is one way to put an end to this farce really fast , just start a Blog rumour that this event is the Islamic-wing of NAMBLA and the State is approving it by banning any witnesses that will report the Mohammedian Pedophilia .
Or just start a day where a sign reads "Non-Muslim's" only , what how fast they fight for the right to swim with infidels.
This is like trying to appease a spoiled brat that is never happy and wants special Rights from everyone else in the family.
Posted by: ala-sux
at April 17, 2008 9:45 PM
A spokesman for the Equality and Human Rights Commission said: "Segregating services may amount to unlawful discrimination and could create a sense of unfairness, inadvertently increasing community tension." (from the Daily Mail)
For "may" read "does"
For "could" read "does"
For "inadvertently" read "deliberately"
Apart from that, almost a half-way reasonable summary from the Commission.
Oops!
For "almost" read "not even near"
at April 17, 2008 9:58 PM
Muslim do not like to swim with dirty kaffirs.
Unfortunately, this is not the only swimming pool in Britain that has "muslin men only" swim-time. The primary question should be, "will the trend continue or be deemed racist and stopped?"
Posted by: Nobody
at April 17, 2008 10:04 PM
Hang on. I sense a golden opportunity here. Let them have their Muslim men only swimming sessions. There can be no objection then to a non-Muslim only day at the park, at the cinema, at all restaurants (no need to include pubs, he he), at all university lectures, at Marks & Sparks, at all chemists, in fact in all public places and events, every facet of pre-Islamic British life and society. Why stop there? How about a no Muslim British society? Now that's the ticket. They want their precious Shari'a? No problem, the whole of north Africa and the desolation of the most inhospitable scrub lands on earth in the deserts of the Middle East are waiting for their arrival, a veritable Shari'a paradise in the here and now. What are they waiting for? No wait, what are WE waiting for? It is long past time for them to leave the British Isles. The multiculturalist social experiment has failed with regard to the Muslim subpopulations of Europe. I know plenty of Christians, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, humanists and atheists with whom I would trust with my very life, but not a single Muslim with whom I could do the same. Mass deportation would be a peaceful solution compared to what is inevitably coming if our society remains on the present course.
Posted by: SaracensAtTheGates
at April 17, 2008 11:26 PM
Is this PC, or going to get worse?
Posted by: hemoglobin
at April 18, 2008 1:11 AM
Their hygiene is questionable, I think this is their weekly(only) bath time. If you know what's good for you, stay away. I am staying in a largely muslim country and sampled their pool manners, not to mention their womenfolk sitting in the pool fully clad in burgas.
Anyway if you can't beat them, join them. you ain't got no more choice in the matter. Bye-bye British Isles
at April 18, 2008 1:22 AM
Drinking Fountain - Muslim Men Only.
Posted by: pr126
at April 18, 2008 1:27 AM
David T said: "I arrived at the pool to discover that they were holding what staff described to me as 'Muslim men-only swimming'.
"I asked whether my son and I could go as we were both male. I was told that the session was for Muslims only and that we could not be admitted. . .
"The manager suggested that they might ask the Muslims swimming if they minded my son and I swimming with them.
"If they didn't object, we might be allowed in."
............................
In the treatise Lightning Bolts Against the Jews, Muhammad Taqi al-Majlisi (1628- 1699), perhaps the most influential Muslim cleric in the Savafid Shi’ite theocracy in Persia, made a list of the laws concerning the dhimmis:
“And, that they [the dhimmis] should not enter the pool while a Muslim is bathing at the public baths".
Well, great. We now operating are under the barbaric laws of 17th-century Iran in modern, liberal, tolerant Britain.
at April 18, 2008 1:28 AM
buy your own allah-damned pool!
200 families throwing in 10 Euros a week for membership at the "Allah Waters Spa" - they can do whatever the hell they please.
Posted by: A Simple Sinner
at April 18, 2008 1:35 AM
It is almost the same as what Israel had to go through. Is ISrael always has to give and give. They should never have given up the Gaza strip.
Look what happened to that beautifull place.
Now it are the moslims in the West, wanting more and more.
Are they giving special time too, for swimming for Black people, the Hindu's and whatever other culture they have.
Once you give in with a finger, they want your whole arm.
The more I find out from the Koran, the more I hate it and all the misery what comes along with it.
What is going to be the solution to this problem?
Apartheid, like South Africa, that did not work either. Apartheid, is a Dutch word, meaning separation. All of is, is compleetly out of hand in England. Even talking about Sharia law, unbelievable. The other European countries are right behind it. Too many dhimmi's over there, thinking it wil just fade away with tolerance, untill their own culture is compleetly gone. The USA better watch out, they are slowing moving forwards, from within the country.
It seems that in the Middle East,they have nothing better to do, then having their big parades, with riffles, burning flags and a bunch of yelling and screaming. If the situation was not so dangerous for the West, they are nothing but a bunch of pityful people, who still want to live in the dark ages. Stay over there and the people who came from there, go back so you can live your life the way you want too. Don't try to take our way of life and culture away. Is this still possible??? Or will this be the beginning of a terrible War.
at April 18, 2008 2:46 AM
Over here, the muslims don't use soap because they believe that the wazu (wudu) that they do five times a day is the ultimate in hygiene. And that, along with the ritual with the stones (also purifying) is the reason why the majority, uh, um, let us say, emit odours that make this poster lose his appetite. I don't know about the man in the article above, but I am not going into any pool in which a "believer" has been, or is.
Posted by: arjun.sevak
at April 18, 2008 4:20 AM
I am really concerned about the rising dhimmitude in Britain.
Why 2-3% muslims in a country like Britain is such a problem I can't understand. In India we have to put up with 18% muslims and no one would dare make a 'muslim only' swimming pool. That would create an outrage or at worst a riot.
I seriously can't figure out what is wrong with the British govt. but I know that the average Britons are seething with rage against islam and the attack on their way of life. Some of that rage also misdirects to 'asians' and 'multiculturalism' and racists get convenient reasons to peddle their ideologies.
Muslims are taking things too far and if this goes on year after year britons will ultimately elect a hitler-esque leader who will immediately have all muslims in concentration camps. And it may not be just the muslims.
Posted by: infidel_hindu
at April 18, 2008 4:29 AM
Look, you bunch of Islamophobes. Muslim-only swimming is perfectly reasonable.
After all, we already have Muslim-only bombing.
Posted by: watling
at April 18, 2008 5:19 AM
infidel_hindu:
the average Britons are seething with rage against islam and the attack on their way of life.
Correct.
But we are living in a pseudo-Marxist state where you only dare debate the failed multicultural experiment in hushed voices.
Things will only get worse as political union with the parent Marxist state of the EU is slowly but surely forced upon us.
Posted by: watling
at April 18, 2008 5:35 AM
"buy your own allah-damned pool!"
better yet ..install the pool as an indoor pool inside the mosque..that way, you can pray, kudu, fondle, bath, curse, plot or otherwise amuse yourself in your own place and not offend the infidels..
but Islam is all about offending the infidels..
Posted by: pulsar182
at April 18, 2008 6:39 AM
WTF? I don't get stopped going in public pools here in Indonesia because I'm a kafir and every Muslim in Indonesia can tell I'm kafir by the cross tattoo on my right shoulder with Jesus written on it. How is it that infidels are discriminated against in their own country yet this infidel can swim in a pool in the world's largest Muslim nation without discrimination? Obviously not enough politically incorrect people left in England or this wouldn't have happened.
Posted by: bigwhiteinfidel
at April 18, 2008 7:40 AM
Hey! If you don't like it, load up your car with explosives and ram it through the center's front doors.
Don't you know?!?!
Posted by: Shy Guy
at April 18, 2008 7:59 AM
Well, first and foremost, I believe that people who cannot adapt in at least a nominal manner to the countries in which they are living should return to their homelands. For the time being, if Muslims wish to have men or women-only swim sessions, or to require swimmers to wear suits that are not the standard worn in the countries where they are living, then they should build swimming pools in their mosques. As far as I'm concerned, any all-men or all-women swim sessions should be prohibited. (If someone does not wish to swim with members of the opposite sex, then they are free to join a gym that is for men or women only, or they can do another form of exercise.) It is not fair to expect the wider community to adapt. Suppose this gentleman had been with his wife, as well? Why should the demands of a small minority dictate the behaviour of everyone else?
Posted by: margheri
at April 18, 2008 9:42 AM
How Gross, if this were pigs or monkeys only swimming session what human would want to get in to such swiming pool? Muslms only? These people do not bath more than once in a blue moon. Who would want ot get into the swimming pool even weeks later let alone swiming with them? While they are still in it? Yaaaakhhhh, how Gross, pass me the waste bascket I am about to vomit!
Posted by: Lebanese
at April 18, 2008 11:05 AM
and this is England...
Go to Italy and in the south they have beaches reserved for Muslim women.
Voltaire
Ok. let's rock and roll against the invader.
I am trying to find a midsize city in the US that does not have a mosque yet. Do you have any name to suggest?
at April 18, 2008 11:22 AM
Hey, I'm all for Islam's Apartheid-mongering. Back in the 1200's, when Muslims pushed Huleku Khan an inch too far, he has an easy time locking the Jews and Christians of Baghdad in their ghettoes and then turning his army loose on the rest of the city--including shutting up the last Abbassid Caliph in a tower and commanding him to keep himself alive by eating his immense stores of gold.
Maybe, after Hamas, the mad mullahs, and the rest get their way, they'll push some Harbi just a tad too far, and it'll be up to the Jews and Christians of the Middle East to rebuild everything from the Black Sea to the Gulf of Aden and the Indus to the Atlantic while the chief Wahabbi clerics and the House of Sa'ud are stuck in their towers toasting each other in Sweet Light Crude.
Posted by: Kepha
at April 18, 2008 11:52 AM
Tartine: Ahh, yes, Riccione. (It isn't southern Italy, though.) If I remember correctly, a hotel wanted to create a separate beach for Muslim women guests from the Gulf states, especially Saudi Arabia. Electric car, anyone? :)
Posted by: margheri
at April 18, 2008 12:01 PM
Re shyguy comment:
" Hey! If you don't like it, load up your car with explosives and ram it through the center's front doors.
Don't you know?!?!
Posted by: Shy Guy at April 18, 2008 7:59 AM "
I hope this will be removed PDQ.
Is, "Don't you know?!?!" some effort at humour? Even in "humour" this is not what this site stands for.
Posted by: Alan B
at April 18, 2008 4:29 PM
Thank God for chlorine.
Posted by: DukeOrange
at April 20, 2008 5:23 PM
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