Posted on 02/25/2008 8:19:03 AM PST by white trash redneck
Obviously, Harvard will gladly reduce fees prorated by the number of hours the gym is off-limits for the haram male students.
/sarc
When in Rome, do as the Romans do.
But, when in America, force them to accomodate you.
It wouldn’t shock me if this was a ruse. Unattractive women have complained for years about mixing men and women in the gym. The men pay attention to the hot women and the unattractive women feel left out. So to end their victimhood, they want separate facilities.
I doubt they have very many Muslim women interested in the gym. Think about it.
Never left, the reality is that nothing the left has done creates a situation where people aren't separated into groups. Thats part of the game, its easier to manipulate a group of brain dead multiculturalists than to influence a free man.
What? The Harvard Islamic Society and the Harvard Women’s Center can’t afford to equip their own gym? I find that hard to believe.
At my health club I noticed a head wrapped muslim woman trying to break her taboos, she was like a cat dropped into the pit bull dog pound. They should either go back to their backwards crapholes or be like other fundie religious minorities in this country and stick to themselves.
How do these women attend classes? Do they are rows set aside for them, so they aren’t sitting next to men? How do they interact with male teachers? Questions, questions, questions.
Nope, equal but separate is not equal, its the law! Howard University should know this better than most.
I’m kinda looking forward to the Cambridge Hooters’ Wet Burqa Night.
But they're not butting heads. The Left opposes the religious taboos of the "antithesis" (the "counterrevolutionary" force) but supports the religious taboos of the "thesis" (the "revolutionary" or "oppressed" force). In fact, even the imposition of religious taboos is considered "revolutionary" and "multicultural" provided that it is the taboos of the "thesis" that are being imposed. Meanwhile, the slightest whiff of government sanction of the religious taboos of the "antithesis" is met with secularist mantras.
Finally the Left supports the very things it once opposed, provided they are being advanced by the "thesis" and not the "antithesis." Baptists want a dirty billboard removed? Those fascists aren't going to tell us what to do in this free country! Catholics object to publicly funded blasphemous artwork? Well, this ain't medieval Spain, sunshine. But when "oppressed, revolutionary" moslems demand that a dirty picture be removed or "blasphemous" artwork be defunded all the "secularists" suddenly switch gears and these things must be done or else we're a "chr*stian theocracy." In fact, they'll somehow use secularist ideology as a justification for it!
The big battle, if there ever is one, will be when moslems start demanding that their kids be exempt from being taught evolution. Now that will be interesting!
Ping
Crush islam
Great thought. If I ran the Harvard student newspaper, that would be my headline tomorrow.
They came here to live, in our country. That means they abide by our rules, laws and customs. In other words, assimilate.
“members of the Harvard Islamic Society and the Harvard Women’s Center petitioned the university for a more comfortable environment for women.”
Insanity. Harvard was founded as a Christian organization.
They started in the UK with small things, and have almost reached a tipping point there.
We must keep toxic substances out of our culture or our culture will be destroyed as the UK is close to.
As an American, I’d think that PRIVATE INSTITUTIONS could make up their own rules as they see fit.
Just to be combative:
I don’t see them scheduling classes or exams on Sunday mornings.
Most schools don’t schedule intermural activities or sports on Sunday mornings.
The school probably has a chapel somewhere.
The school is out for all the major Christian holidays.
In my opinion, reasonable accomadation of religion, even those we disagree with, is a rational approach for a public university.
Whether this particular item is reasonable or not remains to be seen.
A fast workstation the Internet and still I cannot keep up with all the PC rules?
Summers’ remarks on women draw fire - The Boston Globe
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2005/01/17/summers_remarks_on_women_draw_fire/?page=1
CAMBRIDGE — The president of Harvard University, Lawrence H. Summers, sparked an uproar at an academic conference Friday when he said that innate differences between men and women...
Nancy Hopkins, a biologist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, walked out on Summers’ talk, saying later that if she hadn’t left, ‘’I would’ve either blacked out or thrown up.”
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