A hotel in the Austrian city of Salzburg is defending its refusal to allow two Muslim women to use its pool while wearing full body-covering burqinis, arguing that the decision was based on hygiene concerns rather than discrimination.
REMIX News (h/t Nita) The case is now before the Salzburg Administrative Court after the operators of the hotel in Pongau appealed fines imposed by the district authority, according to Salzburger Nachrichten.
Boshra and Jasmina Amasha, two sisters from Upper Austria, had booked a short wellness break at the hotel on Oct. 25 last year. They arrived early with the intention of using the swimming pool before going hiking.
The dispute started at reception when one of the women mentioned that she was going to retrieve her burkini from the car. Staff told her that burqinis were not allowed in the hotel pool, a decision that was upheld after a phone call with the hotel manager.
The hotel manager later confirmed in court that women wearing burqinis were not welcome in the pool. She said the policy was linked to hygiene, arguing that longer fabric could carry bacteria into the water.
The hotel’s co-manager also told the court that long swimwear could have a negative effect on water hygiene. He added that the hotel had also previously asked guests wearing long swimming shorts to change.
The sisters reject the hygiene explanation. Jasmina Amasha said the phone conversation was not presented to them as a technical discussion about pool standards, but instead included remarks such as, “Here in Austria, we have to adapt,” and, “We could go swimming in Saudi Arabia wearing a burkini.”
But you couldn’t in Egypt where a Muslim woman was banned from wearing a body-covering burkini in a swimming pool at a Cairo Sports Club. She also claimed they were told other guests did not like seeing women in burqinis.
After the confrontation, the sisters left and booked another hotel. The court heard that the original hotel covered the additional costs, but Jasmina Amasha said the experience had been “extremely humiliating and discriminatory.”
The hotel operators are appealing the penalty imposed against them, and the court is expected to issue a written ruling in the coming weeks.
Designated Terrorist Group CAIR spokeshijabi who whines about ‘burqini’ ban discrimination popping up all around Europe, deserves to have a burqini tightly wrapped around her big mouth.
And…because I get so many requests for it…here’s Bill Maher’s Muslim Fashion show…featuring the predecessor to the burqini – the burqa.
I remember when Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller held their Summer Nights for Human Rights event in Manhattan Beach, CA. the venue was chosen because the f’ing moslames that ran the hotel had denied Jewish guests the right to use the swimming pool at the hotel. Whether or not that policy has been rescinded or re-instituted once the furor died down is anyone’s guess.
Isn’t it interesting that wherever these moslame parasites go, local customs and laws are supposed to give way to their Shariah bullshite.
Check out the video I just posted about Never Hiring a Muslim.
Remember the Muslim woman who got her hijab caught in an escalator and choked to death in Montreal years ago? Hijabs are unsafe anywhere
Swimming in a burkini, makes them look like seals, which attract great white sharks. Ban them in pools, but not Ocean beaches!
I Leo that idea!