The Swimming Pool Jihad
Charles Johnson
Thu Mar 8, 2007 at 6:34 pm PST • Views: 560
In the Swedish city of Gothenburg, two veiled Muslim mothers have lost a discrimination case against a municipal swimming pool whose lifeguards asked them to remove their political suppression badges and join the 21st Century: Muslim women lose swimming pool discrimination case. (Hat tip: Fjordman.)
Two Muslim mothers in Sweden on Wednesday lost a discrimination case against an indoor swimming pool where the lifeguards had asked them to remove their veils and body-covering clothing.
The Gothenburg court ruled the municipal pool had not discriminated against the women. It ordered the Ombudsman against Ethnic Discrimination, which had brought the case on their behalf, to pay the City of Gothenburg’s costs of 30,850 kronor (4,375 dollars, 3,330 euros).
The women, Houda Morabet and Hayal Eroglu, were at the pool separately on two different occasions in April 2004, accompanying their young children but not to swim themselves. Both were wearing veils, long pants and long-sleeved tee-shirts because their religion does not allow them to reveal parts of their body in public. …
Both women arrived at the court shortly after the verdict was announced. Houda Morabet explained that she took great offence when asked to leave the swimming pool. “Now it is even worse. Most of all I am disappointed by how the justice system has worked,” she said.
The women’s swimming pool/exercise room jihad is also being aggressively pursued at the University of Toronto.
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