Two totally different headlines on same subject.A piece written as a news item in Feb praised a Toronto pool for creating private times for muslim women to swim.
from link:
" Saturday evenings, mechanized screens shroud the center’s expansive glass walls to create a session that allows only women and girls to relax in the hot tub, swim laps or careen down the water slide, a rare bit of ‘me’ time treasured by many of the neighborhood’s Muslim residents,” the article reads.
It adds that Regent Park’s aggressive integration effort “provides a blueprint for successful economic and cultural integration” while offering a “scathing indictment” of New York, London, and other cities absorbing large numbers of immigrants."
In June an editorial blasted NYC for allowing private swim time for Jewish women.
also from link:
"Four times a week this summer … a public swimming pool on Bedford Avenue in Brooklyn will be temporarily unmoored from the laws of New York City and the Constitution, and commonly held principles of fairness and equal access,” the editorial reads. “Orthodox Jewish beliefs demand modesty in dress, and a strict separation of the sexes, and those are the beliefs to which the taxpayer-owned-and-operated Metropolitan Recreation Center will yield.
The city’s human rights law … allows for exemptions “based on bona fide considerations of public policy,” but this case — with its strong odor of religious intrusion into a secular space — does not seem bona fide at all,” the editorial board asserts. “What [New York City Assemblyman Dov] Hikind, in a statement, called a ‘victory for human rights’ is in fact a capitulation to a theocratic view of government services.”
If New York’s Orthodox Jews want to swim, then they had better get their own private swimming pool, the Times concludes.
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2016/06/21/nyt-muslim-swimming-pools-are-inclusive-jewish-pools-are-theocratic/#ixzz4CKIw26L4
can you imagine the NYT saying if muslims want to swim they had better get their own private pool?
from link:
" Saturday evenings, mechanized screens shroud the center’s expansive glass walls to create a session that allows only women and girls to relax in the hot tub, swim laps or careen down the water slide, a rare bit of ‘me’ time treasured by many of the neighborhood’s Muslim residents,” the article reads.
It adds that Regent Park’s aggressive integration effort “provides a blueprint for successful economic and cultural integration” while offering a “scathing indictment” of New York, London, and other cities absorbing large numbers of immigrants."
In June an editorial blasted NYC for allowing private swim time for Jewish women.
also from link:
"Four times a week this summer … a public swimming pool on Bedford Avenue in Brooklyn will be temporarily unmoored from the laws of New York City and the Constitution, and commonly held principles of fairness and equal access,” the editorial reads. “Orthodox Jewish beliefs demand modesty in dress, and a strict separation of the sexes, and those are the beliefs to which the taxpayer-owned-and-operated Metropolitan Recreation Center will yield.
The city’s human rights law … allows for exemptions “based on bona fide considerations of public policy,” but this case — with its strong odor of religious intrusion into a secular space — does not seem bona fide at all,” the editorial board asserts. “What [New York City Assemblyman Dov] Hikind, in a statement, called a ‘victory for human rights’ is in fact a capitulation to a theocratic view of government services.”
If New York’s Orthodox Jews want to swim, then they had better get their own private swimming pool, the Times concludes.
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2016/06/21/nyt-muslim-swimming-pools-are-inclusive-jewish-pools-are-theocratic/#ixzz4CKIw26L4
can you imagine the NYT saying if muslims want to swim they had better get their own private pool?
