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Gym club banned from holding classes at girls school after Muslim parents complain about boy members

Mar 6, 2009 11:10 am By Raymond Ibrahim

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No boys allowed! Haram!

Ironically, the school’s website says that “it has a Christian Foundation and is devoted to unleashing creativity and innovation and ‘celebrating multicultural understanding and respect.” Anyway, here in a nifty little fatwa dealing with the topic of segregation in Islam. All kafirs should become familiar with its contents, as sharia plans on coming to an area near you.

“Gym club banned from holding classes at girls school after Muslim parents complain about boy members,” by Tom Kelly for the Daily Mail, March 6:

A gymnastics club was forced to stop holding classes at an independent girls school after Muslim parents complained about boy members of the group.

Colin Perry, who runs the Shirley Gymnastics Club, said he was saddened by the decision which he said compromised the school’s commitment to multiculturalism because of fears of offending a minority.

He is now desperately searching for a new home for the club’s 250 members – including 36 boys – which had held mixed-sex classes at the junior school site of Old Palace School, in Croydon, South London, since January last year.

‘It’s unbelievable,’ Mr Perry said.

‘There is a group of Muslim parents with Muslim children at the school and they are the ones putting pressure on the headteacher.

‘It makes me sad to say that.’

He was told about the decision at a meeting with headteacher Judy Harris a few weeks ago.

‘She said some of the parents have said their children go to an independent all girls school and unfortunately they’re concerned because we have got boys in the club,’ Mr Perry said.

‘She said to us that the school has got far more Muslim children than last year, so effectively we have to interpret that in our own way.’

Just wait UK till you have more Muslims; then, the only thing left to “interpret” will be sharia law — whether, say, Britain should be governed according to Malaki, Shafi’i, Hanafi, or, most likely, Hanbali jurisprudence.

Dudley Mead, a Tory Councillor in Croydon and governor at Old Palace school, said he was aware of the parents’ concerns.

He said: ‘That’s the Muslim belief isn’t it? They are very protective of their female children.’

The school did offer a compromise, that the gym club could stay but start later at 6.30pm, rather than 5pm as at present, by which time pupils will be off the site.

But Mr Perry says this would be impractical as some sessions wouldn’t end until 9.30pm, which is way too late for many of the club’s young members.

The club, which caters for young gymnasts aged between five and 21, has until April 3 to find a new home.

Mrs Harris released a statement and refused to answer any further questions.

In it she said: ‘We were unable to accommodate the early starting time of the club as the school was still functioning.

‘We had hoped that the club could be held at a later time but this was thought unworkable by the organisers.

‘It has not been a decision taken lightly but we have to consider the needs of the school and the security of the site given the very young age of our juniors.’

On its website the school describes how it has a Christian Foundation and is devoted to unleashing creativity and innovation and ‘celebrating multicultural understanding and respect.‘

Hot air:

Last year the school scrapped halal food from the menu after complaints from outraged parents.

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