[Marxism] Re: Islamist s Campaign for Veiling and freedom,

[Nick Fredman <sra@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Lueko Willms mentioned women's only swimming in a Munich pool being 
banned. Almost exactly the same thing happened in Sydney  last year.

Muslim students denied swim classes

BY ALISON DELLIT

SYDNEY — In another example of rampant racism in Sydney's west, female 
students at Noor Al Houda Islamic College have had a booking cancelled 
by the Auburn Swim Centre, after a racist campaign by local talk-back 
radio hosts to stop it.

The school had booked, and paid for, exclusive use of one of the 
centre's three pools for 10 one-hour blocks, wanting to restrict access 
while female students were dressed only in swimming costumes. According 
to the August 21 Auburn Review, “irate callers had threatened to march 
on the pool because they believe specific religious groups should not 
have exclusive access to the facility”.

The manager of the pool was quoted by the Auburn Review as saying: 
“Only one pool out of three [would have been] open [at that time] 
anyway. It was just the same as a school booking the pool for a 
swimming carnival. Because it was a Muslim school, we had to stop the 
program.”

From Green Left Weekly, August 28, 2002.
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