Islamists win segregation of women at Harvard

Citing “comfort” reasons to “protect” women, Islamists win segregation of women at Harvard gymnasiums

Abbie Ruzicka with the Daily Free Press reported Monday, Feb. 25, on Harvard University’s accommodation to Islamist wishes for women-only gym hours.

With the Islamist win, segregation of women at Harvard begins - along the lines of religious claims that the Islamic women feel uncomfortable exercising where men are present.

Discomfort is sourced in part to Islamic Shari’a law restrictions against women interactions with men - if Islamic family honor might be violated - resulting in the woman being punished in keeping to fatwa rulings that follow the Shari‘a laws.

Men have not been allowed to enter the Quadrangle Recreational Athletic Center during certain times since Jan. 28, after members of the Harvard Islamic Society and the Harvard Women's Center petitioned the university for a more comfortable environment for women.

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 she does not believe that the women-only gym hours discriminate against men.

"These hours are necessary because there is a segment of the Harvard female population that is not found in gyms, not because they don't want to work out, but because for them working out in a co-ed gym is uncomfortable, awkward or problematic in some way," she said.

Awkward and problematic in some way - including if uncle Osama is finding out about a gym-room friendship developing between Ola and that hunky “kufar” infidel Kent.

Harvard junior Nick Wells said he believes the women-only hours are inconvenient for the residents that live near the facility and discriminate against men.

Or that hunky “kufar” infidel Nick, by the way…

"It is unfair to impose a stringent policy that inhibits [students] from using their own facility in order to further a useless policy that doesn't have any real effect," he said.

"I don't mind that Harvard is trying to give space to women and religious minorities, it's just that it seems that it's not making a real effort," Wells said. "Just one that is impractical and purely symbolic at the cost of people like myself."

Wells lives near the Quad, and said the response to and use of the women-only gym hours so far has been underwhelming…

Boston University Islamic Society President Mohamed Serageldin said he thinks women-only gym hours would benefit Muslim women at BU.

"Because the FitRec is co-ed, [a Muslim woman] would most likely be compromising her modesty,” He said.

Islam is not very complex in its demands: submit or die.

It is fascinating to see sophisticated, erudite universities bending backwards to accommodate what some liberals might characterize as paternalist apartheid in the name of religious conservatism.

How much does that kind of accommodation cost? Millions that Islamist Muslims can afford, but our fellow Christians can not.  

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