Stop the Islamization of America: Maryland Public Pools Enforce Sharia-Muslim Swim, Segregated Swimming

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Why do American taxpayers have to subsidize Sharia? This is exactly what I address in my book, Stop the Islamization of America: A Practical Guide to the Resistance.

We should protest this imposed sharia by refusing to pay whatever taxes are paying for these public pools.

If Muslims refuse to assimilate, let them build their own pools. Don't the Saudis have money to build pools in the mosques they fund? And they fund 80% of the mosques in America.

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Maryland pools try sharia and segregate swimming for women-only by creeping (hat tip Armaros)

via Women-only swimming: Columbia pool creates trial program – baltimoresun.com.

When Shehlla Khan’s husband became ill, it fell on her to take their three children to the pool. But for Khan, who is Muslim, the task was difficult.

The Columbia resident said she was concerned about people watching her swim in the conservative, cover-all dress required by Islamic dress codes, and thinking: “What’s wrong? Why can’t you take it off?”

What will your husband do if he finds out your swimming in a swimsuit where non-Muslims, possibly non-Muslim men might see you?

So Khan, 39, brought the issue up with members of her Dar Al-Taqwa mosque in Ellicott City. The mosque, along with members of a faith-based county group, People Acting Together in Howard, met with the Columbia Association to create a twice-weekly, women-only swim time, a trial that is scheduled to be announced Tuesday.

Muslims cleverly using “inter faith” groups to spread sharia law in the U.S.

The Columbia Association, which operates 23 pools in Howard, will join other communities that have made similar accommodations to create a more welcoming atmosphere for Muslims and other female swimmers.

Will all 23 be sharia compliant soon?

New York City’s recreation and parks department offers a women-only swim time at the Metropolitan Recreation Center. Pools around Toronto and other cities have also offered similar options, according to news reports. And at a swimming pool in Seattle, Muslim woman have used brown paper to cover glass windows, providing privacy from the lobby.

Several private universities, including Harvard and George Washington, also have provided female-only swim times, with several hours a week set aside. But occasionally, such programs have run into opponents who suggest they unfairly cater to one group. At George Washington some complained, citing concerns over the program infringing on Drudge sioa book jacketjpg3American liberties.

“It’s a positive thing,” said Ibrahim Hooper, a spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations. “Not everyone has the same needs. It’s just expanding the level of interaction with the local community and recognizing that people are different. You’re bringing people into your system who would otherwise be uncomfortable.”

CAIR is a terror-linked organization with many of its leaders convicted, jailed and deported for terror-related offenses. The group is also fighting for sharia law to be legal in the U.S. See left navigation for key links.

Hooper said such programs are beneficial to communities attempting to reach out to an otherwise isolated minority. The reserved times usually are scheduled when facilities might be under-utilized, he said.

He said he’s heard of many instances where the issue grows from women in the Muslim community, but turns out to be a need felt by others.

It always grows from the Muslim community. Like sharia. As the Muslim population grows, so does the spread of sharia law. History proves this well.

Raghid Shourbaji, president of the Howard County Muslim Council, said the need is growing because the county’s Muslim population is growing. He said another indoor pool in Jessup has a similar program, but he hopes the one in Columbia will be more convenient.

His organization, which has been in existence for about 10 years, and the county’s only mosque, Dar Al-Taqwa, are the only Muslim outlets in the county. They serve about 1,800 residents, based on mailing lists.

Safiyah Blake, a Columbia resident who is Muslim, has some practical reasons for using the women-only swim times.

“I want to take lessons to learn to put my head in the water,” she said. “I never learned how to breathe.”

But she agreed the pool experience can often drive Islamic women away.

“You can see people looking at you,” Blake said. The women-only pool times will “bridge the gap. My sisters and I can jump in.”

Bridge what gap? If Muslims are isolated, it’s because they choose to be isolated from the kuffar. In an free society people will look at you – especially if you are wearing a head-to-toe black getup when it’s 95 degrees out or at the beach or pool.  Take a walk in a neighborhood where you are the minority. Be sure the majority will look at you. And in many neighborhoods in the U.S. they’ll do more than just look.

She plans to get out her burqini — a bathing suit that covers her arms and legs, and has a hood. The modest, cover-all swimsuit is often worn by Muslim women.

“It dries quicker than any other suit,” Blake said.

Jessie Newburn, a spokeswoman with the Columbia Association, said “CA was founded on inclusion,” and the organization jumped at the chance to establish the women-only pool times. “We were created for this.”

Does anyone see the irony? The association was founded on “inclusion” and yet they are intentionally excluding half the population because Muslims do not want to swim with men. Or their men may beat them.

The Columbia Swim Center in the Wilde Lake Village Center was chosen because it was the most-enclosed, with tinted windows to provide added privacy.

The women-only swim times will be held from 12:30 p.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays at the swim center; the trial period will run through the end of January.

Depending on the success at the indoor pools, Cynthia Marshall of PATH said the group might try to extend the program to outdoor pools, which might take some additional consideration.

Meet and contact those who are slowly allowing Islamic sharia law to creep into our lives here. Needless to say, if you do contact them, be respectful and rational – unlike many of the comments left here.

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Leeta Montijo
Leeta Montijo
12 years ago

Why not take a couple of pieces of bacon with you to the pool, make sure the interlopers see it, throw it in the pool and then enjoy an uncrowded pool? Just saying.

Betty
Betty
12 years ago

you know Pam the way a lot of the lefties are bowing to these muslims it want be long I don’t think we will be at war here in the USA and that is a sad thing to think about. some people you just cant be nice to or friends with. because the want you to be just like them and this is the case here. God didn’t make us all the same.to see every thing the same. I am a Christian. I believe in GOD and Jesus the Son of GOD. and my God tell me to bow to no man.

John K
John K
12 years ago

“New York City’s recreation and parks department offers a women-only swim time”
We need to have men go and try to break into this by charging discrimination and equal access the same way liberals demand the Boy Scouts open up to girls and gays, and the priesthood open up to women, and gays in the military, and etc.

Wayne Cunningham
Wayne Cunningham
12 years ago

They ought to be building their own private facilities, if they desire to follow sharia that is the avenue to take. The camel’s nose is no longer all that is in the door, why are liberals so anxious for this?

Patti
Patti
12 years ago

“Women only” swim time? EXCUSE ME but that is, by definition,, discrimination based on GENDER at a PUBLIC facility.

Gerald
Gerald
12 years ago

“Why not take a couple of pieces of bacon with you to the pool….”. Some brave lady must some rub some bacon fat on her and jump into the pool and when she is safely out of the pool let the rag heads know that the pool is now contaminated. I think if a few people did this a few times at various pools it may stop the rag heads from going to the pools. As far I know there is no law against rubbing bacon fat on your own body. Just the same make sure you have some protection. Any takers?

Nat's daughter
Nat's daughter
12 years ago

They should coordinate the womens-only time with a transgender swim time. What would the muslims do then?

Tal1976
Tal1976
12 years ago

Pam,
I love everything you do! Keep it up.
But I have to call you out on this one. In similar fashion to Orthodox Jewish women, the Muslim women cannot swim in the presence of men due to modesty reasons. Also, the Columbia Association has had a women’s only gym for many years. It was established long before the influx of Muslims to the community and the mega mosque was built.

Joe
Joe
12 years ago

so when do the “men only” swimming pools start? I thought that the civil rights movement was against division of the sexes, and here we go right back to 1950?
You liberals are such hypocrites! Where are the NOW people when Muslim women are being oppressed by their sexist muslim masters? I am quite conservative, and this angers me quite a bit when I see women forced to wear complete head and body covering, look at that swimsuit in that photo. How absurd! I thought we were past this stuff. If you think these women want to wear this ghost suit, then think again. their abusive keepers demand it and she dares not complain.
Yet you attack Christians?

dan
dan
12 years ago

We will have to cut the funding for these privatizing pools.
Let the Muzzies rent them if they want them. I suppose we could have Christian time in Egypt?
We can call it “the Nazi Time”, or the “Beast of Revelation” time.
This is an outrage by the politically correct and they need to be pounded in the courts. “Start with an injunction”

Person of the Book
Person of the Book
12 years ago

The Columbia resident said she was concerned about people watching her swim in the conservative, cover-all dress required by Islamic dress codes, and thinking: “What’s wrong? Why can’t you take it off?”
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Can anybody say “Thought Police”?
Has it ever occurred to this woman who wants to force her religion onto everyone else that if her way really is a better way (i.e. wearing a swimming suit that completely covers her up), it would be more useful for her to wear it in public, so that maybe others can see the benefits of it?
Instead, she demands that society accept her way.
What is the next step? Forcing separate swimming times for the muslims vs non-muslims? If she does that, the rest of us should demand a swimming time when muslims aren’t allowed to swim, so that we don’t have to swim with them!

Frak
Frak
12 years ago

We have YM/WCA’s and JCC’s here in the USA that are theoretically “religion” based private organizations… no issues whatsoever with them offering segregated swim times for whatever reasons.
The question is- why do muslims, and muslims ONLY, always demand that their religious rules be followed by PUBLIC, TAXPAYER FUNDED institutions?
As for public places offering women only swim times, there are a variety of NON religious based reasons for this… i.e. women’s self-esteem issues, if they are working on their appearance, and are ashamed/embarrassed to be seen in bathing attire by men, etc. So I guess I personally don’t care about women only swim times, as long as there are equal amounts of time for everyone else.

Isabellathecrusader
Isabellathecrusader
12 years ago

“They ought to be building their own private facilities, if they desire to follow sharia that is the avenue to take.”
“The question is- why do muslims, and muslims ONLY, always demand that their religious rules be followed by PUBLIC, TAXPAYER FUNDED institutions?”
Sharia is not about building it’s own pools for Muslim use. Sharia is about forcing all people, whether they like it or not, to accomodate Muslim preferences and forcing taxpayers to subsidize them. This Muslim woman has no intention of assimilating or accomodating anyone else’s needs or desires and she certainly doesn’t respect the rights of non-Muslims. This has absolutely nothing to do with this woman’s desire to swim and everything to do with establishing Sharia compliancy in a non-Muslim venue.
Creep, creep, creep.

Auntie Gin
Auntie Gin
12 years ago

Insane! They should go to a private club where they could make their idiotic demands. These nasties have/are invading every aspect of American life. Would the same be accorded to african only, hispanic only, white only?? Of course not. Only these a–holes get away with this sh–.

scrubjay
scrubjay
12 years ago
WMICHAEL
WMICHAEL
12 years ago

THE TAIL IS ONCE AGAIN WAGGING THE DOG!!!

IndyJones
IndyJones
12 years ago

I thought the Supreme Court decided some decades ago that “seperate but equal” was not acceptable. Since when did segregation become the in thing again?

armaros
armaros
12 years ago

I have no issue with Muslims building their own pools in their own community centers and imposing their sharia there.
Though as someone who studied Islam, I never seen any command that demands women be segregated from men on beaches. It says “dress modestly”. Which means that they may not want to wear swim wear. Like orthodox Jewish women who go to the beach in Miami dressed in long dresses and wigs.
The segregation stems from controlling Muslim men who may gang rape a woman in a public pool. Thus the segregation in MUslim countries on beaches and other public places.
But in Sharia Dubai, Egyptian resorts and even Gaza, women go to the beach with men, though many are covered up.
This needs to be resisted because it will creep into all facets of our lives.
They are demanding that the taxpayer fund this madness (Jizziya).

KKKK
KKKK
12 years ago

this is disgusting, but not surprisng for our PC and multiculturalistic culture. expect more of the same as the Muslim population grows and demands more from us Kuffar (nonMuslims)

well oh well
well oh well
12 years ago

ssooooo.. they’ve upgraded their color from the black flag of jihad to the
color of midday sun of the flag of Israel, but, it’s till closer to a
bur-COFFIN than a burquini
(izzat a reservoir end at the top?)

Wallabee
Wallabee
12 years ago

> In similar fashion to Orthodox Jewish women, the Muslim women
> cannot swim in the presence of men due to modesty reasons.
I know of numerous conservative Evangelicals who also do not believe in “mixed bathing” (i.e. swimming).
The key though, is that no one institutes this practice in a public pool to accommodate either Orthodox Jews or strict Evangelicals. (I avoid the label “fundamentalists” as it has been thoroughly corrupted by the Media and no longer holds to its original meaning)
The only group that is accommodated in this way is Islam.

When*Pigs8Fly
When*Pigs8Fly
12 years ago

If they didn’t make these unreasonable demands, how would they be able to force us to follow sharia, because that’s what it is, forced sharia.

Elaine
Elaine
12 years ago

OUR Country has “cowards” and “politicians (including the President)” who are allowing this crap.
This MUST STOP!

Richard
Richard
12 years ago
gsw
gsw
12 years ago

When Shehlla Khan’s husband became ill, it fell on her to take their three children to the pool
Who cares what she wears, doesn’t wear. Far more important is: what sort of message is this conveying to her 3 children? That women’s bodies are dirty? That women’s hair is obscene?
Back when women wore floor length dressers, some men went mad at the sight of a ankle.
Now we have a whole culture trying to return all women to being sexual objects.
Force these men to look at women’s bodies all day until their learn to control themselves; then they can be let out in civilised company.

Anapurna
Anapurna
12 years ago

America fought long and hard to stop segregation. Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks must be turning in their graves! I have a daughter, too. In NO WAY will I let her mentally dwarf by shielding her from the comments of the world (whether she is too thin, too fat, black or white, incorrectly shaped or whatever). I will let her grow and deal with it. When we swim in our local YMCA there are handicaped and down syndromed individuals swimming with us and they don’t give a rip who looks at them strangely or curiously – and we all do whether you admit it or not. What else is it that muslims can’t handle?

Jim Thomson
Jim Thomson
12 years ago

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mikefromminnesota
mikefromminnesota
8 years ago

A couple of nights ago my wife and I went to the pool/hot tub area of our athletic club. A Muslim man was in the hot tub. I got in …no problem. A few minutes later my wife came out of the women’s locker room and climbed into the hot tub with me. As soon as she hit the water this guy gave us the major league stink eye and ran out of the tub. Based on his reaction it was obvious he was angry because she had the temerity to climb into a pool with a man. She was wearing a modest one piece suit and is in her 60’s. From what I read a Muslim man should not be in a pool with a woman not his wife. So the question is….who wins the Muslim man who does not want a disgusting woman in the pool with him or me. I vote me. He can just stay out of the stinkin pool.

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