Female Muslim students at Syracuse University complain that they can’t swim (or learn to swim) because the school won’t grant them exclusive hours when only they can be in the pool. Or, more specifically, when no men are allowed to be present.
The College Fix (h/t Marvin W) “Covering, or maintaining modest dress for religious reasons, is at best uncomfortable and at worst impossible for Muslim women who choose to cover their bodies when they’re using Barnes Center facilities, such as the pool,” The Daily Orange reports.
Syracuse grad student Sajiah Naqib told the student paper that when she lived in Malaysia (where almost two-thirds of the population is Muslim) there were separate pools for men and women. (Then go back to Malaysia) “Usually I’d have to fix my scarf while I’m in the pool, but if you’re in an environment where it’s just girls, you don’t really care and you can swim,” Naqib said. “You’re more comfortable.”
Naqib, also a member of the Syracuse Muslim Student Association (MSA), said she feels “uncomfortable” wearing a hijab at Syracuse exercise facilities because she gets “weird stares” from other gym-goers. Fellow MSA member Zuhal Amarkhil said Syracuse — which is a private university — should “should allocate a specific time for Muslim women to use the facility.”
Even if this request was granted, however, there’s still a problem: the facility’s windows. Student Hawa Omar said the university should add curtains to cover up the windows to “prevent men from seeing women swimming.” She added “As Muslims we have to cover, and when we’re in a swimming pool, obviously we’re not covering, so there can’t be any men.”
MSA Administrator Mariam Abdelghany believes the problem with accessibility at SU is bigger than just pool access. “We are very underrepresented,” she said. “Even with faculty, I think a lot don’t know the Muslim accommodations they SHOULD have for students.”
Omar said if SU kept an open dialouge with its Muslim students, they wouldn’t have as many issues with pool access. She suggested administering a survey to ask Muslim students what they feel SU is doing right and where they should improve.
Covering, or maintaining modest dress for religious reasons, is at best uncomfortable and at worst impossible for Muslim women who choose to cover their bodies when they’re using Barnes Center facilities, such as the pool. Muslim students told The Daily Orange that SU lacks proper accommodations for them, especially in gyms and pools. (I bet they can’t name one university anywhere in the Muslim world that would even consider making special religious accommodations for any non-Muslim student)
According to (far left) ‘Media Matters,’ “Fox News is inciting ‘Islamophobic’ fears in its reporting on a weekly swim class at a YMCA facility that ensures the privacy of Muslim girls learning to swim, framing it as evidence that “Sharia law is now changing everything.”
Media Matters In October, a St. Paul YMCA in partnership with the local police department decided to offer swim practice to give Somali Muslim girls ONLY, between the ages of 5 and 17, an opportunity to learn basic swimming skills, caving to Muslim demands for considerations of Muslim girls’ modesty and religious beliefs.
DENVER: Muslim mother turned away from rec center pool over unsanitary Muslim swim attire.
BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE:
MARYLAND submits to shari’a law, caves to Muslim demands for women-only swimming pool times
Muslims sue Cook County claiming anti-Muslim discrimination for inappropriate swimming attire
UNSANITARY Islamic burqini swimwear is welcome in Muslim-infested Minnesota
Smooth Lee says
Consider it done. That’s woke for you. How funny it would be if a transgender Muslim -surely they do exist- expected, even demanded, s/he be included.
Jack Rider says
Crazy times in America. A man can swim as a member of the university women’s swim team but muslim women cannot swim with men because they insist on wearing drapes into the pool. Would they swim with a trans woman like Leah Thompson? Real crazy demand when there are all those photos of muslim women swimming beside muslim men. It’s all about pushing non-muslims into more and more accommodation under the guise of religious freedom until the muslims wind up in control. I do not believe non-muslim men should suffer the denial of pool access on a restricted schedule just to please the preferences of muslim women swimmers. That is discrimination. What if white people expressed discomfort at swimming with black people? That used to be the case. Pleasure v. Ferguson: separate but equal is equal. Er, not quite. US law evolved to recognize civil rights for all. No one, no regulation denies muslim women access to the swimming pool. If they don’t want to swim they can go elsewhere. Accommodate these muslim students on this and they will next demand that pork products not be served at all in the college dining rooms because it offends them.
BareNakedIslam says
Exactly right. Yet American universities are increasingly caving to Muslim religious demands, despite the fact that they wouldn’t do it for any other religions.
Linda Rivera says
As soon as Jew-hater/Christian-hater, Racist White Hater Muslims enter our non-Muslim nations, the Muslim LIARS immediately slander us and call us racists.
MUSLIM PRIVILEGE
Muslims are allowed by our Traitor God-hater governments to commit violent, savage crimes against intensely hated Non-Muslims and are not punished.
In addition, Muslims DEMAND special rights and privileges not given to any other people groups.
Muslim only prayer rooms at airports, schools, colleges, universities and at work places.
Time off several times a day, during WORKING HOURS for Muslim prayers.
One of their demands is for ‘Muslim Women Only’ swimming pools.
Muslims HATE our laws, our rules, our culture, our clothing, our food, our music, our dancing and singing. Muslims hate the very presence of Christians, Jews and all other non-Muslims in our Christian nations.
Muslims infiltrate to ERADICATE all of the above.
Quran (8:12) “I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Therefore strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them”
Tim h says
Can’t she swim in the nearest river with lead Wights on her feet .this would help us a lot .
Martelson says
And no doubt they will be submitted to. A good question – why would anyone want to go into the pool after the Islamic breed machines have been in it? There are limits to what chemicals can do.
And naturally, the campus ‘womyn center’ will see nothing wrong in submitting themselves to the Islamic breed machines. That’s ‘diversity, equity and inclusion’. It’s another example of why the left loves ‘equity’ – instead of equality.
VMS says
And will Syracuse U. Say “no?”
Reader says
Viktor says
Except actual whales would stink a lot less!
ME Infidel says
We need to stop using the euphemism, “the religion of peace”, for obvious reasons. We should change it to “the religion of perpetual whining” instead.
Az gal says
Off topic: another Muslum con artist
https://thedailycrime.org/2022/08/26/lawyer-arrested-at-airport-for-alleged-fraud-worth-over-10m/
Stevo says
OFF TOPIC
The Iranian hijab protests have spread to London.
5 police injured, 12 people arrested outside the Iranian Embassy .
vtology says
“NO”
Az gal says
I never saw any pools in Islamic countries I’ve been to, much less times for women. It is cost prohibitive for us to do this. Let them come up with their own pools they can contaminate.
David says
They have bath tubs.
andrewblackadder says
American feminists seem to think its okay to keep men and women apart as well as accepting women be covered from head to toe in a black garbage bag and yet scream about equality of the sexes…. Im confused… which is it?.