Deeply Filled Mortician wrote:
> On 8 Dec 2006 15:30:13 -0800, "PJ O'Donovan" wrote:
>
>> Friday, December 08, 2006
>> Public swimming halted for 'Muslim afternoon'
>>
>> In a further example that the values and aspirations of Islam are
>> antithetical to those of the United Kingdom, Croydon Council has
>> instituted 'Muslim only' swimming times in its public swimming
>> baths.
>>
>> Cranmer's occasional communicant, Mr Croydonian, will now be barred
>> for two whole hours on Sundays from swimming in his revealing speedos,
>> and there will be no watching the girls go by, because they are all
>> banned. Mr Croydonian will only be admitted if he conforms to Shari'a
>> law and wears shorts that hide the navel and cover the knees.
>>
>> Croydon Council has made provision for Muslim women outside its normal
>> opening hours, and the Shari'a dress code is to be covered from the
>> neck down to the ankle. Have you ever tried swimming wrapped in a
>> sheet? Cranmer can't help wondering why health and safety factors
>> have been subsumed to this impractical dress code.
>>
>> Croydon Mosque states quite unequivocally: 'Muslims are not allowed
>> to show off intimate parts of their body. This is non-negotiable.
>> Muslims have as much right to go swimming as anyone else.'
>
> They have just as much right to force Islamic values on the British as
> the British have of forcing it on Iraqis etc.
Good parallel - idiot! |