Posted on 07/15/2011 10:11:12 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative
Council says it has no obligation to provide facilities but then makes embarrassing U-turn
A mother was ordered not to breastfeed her baby in public because she was in a ‘multicultural building’.
Emma Mitchell, 32, was about to feed 19-week-old son Aaron when a receptionist at a town hall warned her to stop.
Last night Mrs Mitchell condemned council staff, saying it was time people recognised the law which allows nursing mothers to breastfeed in public.
‘It was just awful. I felt humiliated, intimidated and guilty through the whole thing,’ she said.
‘What I was doing was one of the most natural things a mother can do. You hear everywhere that breast is best for your baby, so why wouldn’t I be allowed to do that?’
The incident occurred when Mrs Mitchell, from Oldham, was in the Citizens’ Advice Bureau in Oldham Civic Centre.
The mother of two was asking about hiring a babysitter for her two boys when Aaron became hungry and started crying.
She then asked the receptionist if she could use a corner of the room to feed him, but she refused, saying it was a ‘multicultural building’.
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Under UK law, mothers can breastfeed in public under the provision of goods, services and facilities section of the Sexual Discrimination Act, whatever the age of the baby, in places such as council buildings, cafes, restaurants, libraries and doctors’ surgeries.
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Because it was an infidel.
Their intolerance is tolerated.
Not all that long ago this was a really big “women's rights” issue. People picketed, screamed, yelled, and so on. Where are the same crowds of outraged NOW type fascists when their fellow fascists are “offended” by the very thing the NOW crowd insisted had to be tolerated by everyone else?
A mother was ordered not to breastfeed her baby in public because she was in a ‘multicultural building’.
I’d like to get directly in some idiot’s face.
So if a Muslim started praying to Mecca in that same "multicultural building" the staff/receptionist would ask the Muslim to leave on the grounds that it might offend/frighten other visitors, right? Right?
Yeah right.
Well said.
We won’t hear a peap from NOW or any of the other hypocritical useful idiots. The only noise we’ll ever hear from them is the gurgle of blood coming from their slit throats when a Muslim slits them.
Ezzat Attiya had issued a fatwa, or religious edict, saying adult men could breast-feed from female work colleagues as a way to avoid breaking Islamic rules that forbid men and women from being alone together.********
So I’m guessing it would have been OK had she allowed all the Muslim men in the building to have a drink.
That we’ve allowed this plague to take root in the West is more than evidence enough we’ve lost our collective mind.
If her breast feeding can make their liddle Muzzi heads explode I will hold the baby . . . .
....and I’ll fry up some bacon.
This was news last week:
http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2011/07/06/local-woman-envisions-mobile-breastfeeding-truck/
Have that drive up to the multicultural center. Video at link with a short ad to tolerate.
This is precisely why Muslims shouldn’t live in Western culture. They are beneath it.
The windmill green energy people vs. the nature bird lovers is rather funny too.
put the babies in burqua’s!!
/s
Women’s and Minority’s rights go out the window when Islamics show up.
At least they haven’t elected a Muslim their leader, yet.
Hey, I'm a "nature bird lover."
Watch it, there. :^)
I'm wondering how the San Francisco liberals who banned circumcision are going to react when they realize thatmuslims are the largest practitioners of circumcision in the world!
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