[DB]

I doubt Muslim women in particular are ever given the opportunity learn to swim.

[dasboot]

I recall an account of an Anglo-gal who survived the tipping of one of those notoriously overloaded ferry boats in the Asian-Pacific region:

She recalls the men stripping life jackets from the women and climbing atop swimming women, drowning them, to save themselves. The author related it to cultural pecularities....probably Islam.....maybe else?

Reader's Digest....some years ago.