To accommodate Muslim students, Harvard tries women-only gym hours

The Daily Free Press (Boston U) ^ | 25 feb 08 | Abbie Ruzicka

[Travis McGee]

Dhimmitude ain’t so bad, once you get used to wearing the yellow crosses and stars of david.

[Post Toasties]

Harvard appears to want to change from a secular institution to a religious one with very primitive ideas about allowing the sexes to associate.

[expatguy]

"I guess they’ll be banning BLT sandwiches and pork chops from the school cafeteria next..."

They will, but not yet. Give it about a year more.

An American Expat in Southeast Asia

[silverleaf]

The Harvard “Women’s Center” was part of this? Is there a deep craving in the hearts of liberal women to be clothed in burqas and protected from the stares of men?

[knighthawk]

Yeah and all the woman walk around in tents, after a while you get used to it too.

[Travis McGee]

Just keep your women covered in burqas, no problem. (Plus, you get to beat them!)

[knighthawk]

hehehe

[torchthemummy]

Harvard Islamic Society's Islamic Knowledge Committee officer Ola Aljawhary, a junior, said the women-only hours are being tested on a trial basis. The special gym hours will be analyzed over Spring Break to determine if they will continue, she said. Aljawhary said that she does not believe that the women-only gym hours discriminate against men.

Only in a liberal or Islamic mind would the existence of women-only time periods to the exclusion of men-only time not be considered discrimination.

[valkyrieanne]

The male students should sue. Couldn’t you see the hoopla if Harvard forbade *women* from the gyms?

[watchin]

Exactly. He should go ask his stupid question in Saudi Arabia.