Harvard Adopts Sharia Rules
Pictured: The soon-to-be Boston Islamic Center.
The islamization of America will be most effectively wrought through liberal dhimmis and our college campuses.
From an article by Abbie Ruzicka at The Daily Free Press:
Harvard University has moved to make Muslim women more comfortable in the gym by instituting women-only access times six hours a week to accommodate religious customs that make it difficult for some students to work out in the presence of men.
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 that 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.
Though the policy was in part initiated by the school’s Islamic group, Aljawhary said women-only hours are not a case of “minority rights trumping majority preference” and said women of different faiths have showed interest in the hours.
“We live together in one community, it only makes sense for everyone to compromise slightly in order for everyone to live happily,” she said. “This matter is simple: Can’t we just display basic decency and show tolerance and inclusion for people not a part of the mainstream majority?”
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.
“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.
Harvard freshman Kyle Harasimowicz said women-only gyms have been successful and women-only gym hours fill the same need.
“I guess as long as the time is divvied up fairly, there should be no issue,” he said.
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 modesty can be compromised on both the part of the man and the woman when physical action is involved.”
BU’s Fitness and Recreation Center facilities manager Alex Southall said FitRec’s design easily accommodates sectioning off areas for groups.
“It depends on the arrangement with the particular group, so we aren’t playing favorites with space, but the FitRec does have the capability to section off for special use,” he said.
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i like how they get applauded because theyre just a harmless minority trying to get fair treatment but if a group like the kkk came in and said they wanted hours for only whites itd be immediately thrown out.
how is this fair.
February 25th, 2008 at 3:59 pmIt’s not fair, but using the KKK for an example in this context probably isnt wise. But the point does still remain that we did away with segregation in our society, and have pushed for equal rights for everyone. And for any particular group to get special treatment for religous purposes defeats all the good that has happened.
If you don’t want to play by the rules, go back to a country that enforces archaic laws and will kill you for walking down the street with an unrelated man, or 30 lashes and prison time for walking your dog. If you want that GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY COUNTRY AND DO IT ON YOUR OWN TIME, but DON’T expect me to take it up the bunghole to appease you.
February 25th, 2008 at 4:09 pmWhat the councilmembers at Harvard should ask themselves is: Would a regualar gym like Gold’s Gym give these people special treatment like this even if they were paying members? The answer is no. So if they won’t get this special treatment in the real world, then they shouldn’t get it at Harvard. Everyone else who pays to go that school doesn’t get special treatment. Should weakly people who want to start working out but are too embarrassed to work out because they can’t lift as much get special workout times? No!
February 25th, 2008 at 5:08 pmHorse shit!
February 25th, 2008 at 5:27 pmAh, not there is no need to dirty bomb Boston, they’ve started down the dhimmi road. That’s what happens when Kennedy and Kerry’s state decides to ignore the Boston tea party and the very founding of our country in that city.
Thanks guys, makes me glad to have visited the city before it goes under…
February 25th, 2008 at 5:45 pm‘C’mon, let’s all go back to the 4th century, it’ll be fun!’
February 25th, 2008 at 8:10 pmThis is a load of crap.
What’s next, special hours for people with acne and boney knees?
Harvard has to have a champion somewhere in a position of power, who can cut through all this rhetoric with a bit of basic common sense. Find that person, let him speak.
This makes me absolutley freaking sick. The city of my birth, Cambridge; the (at the time town) city that General Washington first took command of the American Army in 1775 has let these Islamic loud-mouths get their way at Harvard. This is unfreaking-real.
February 25th, 2008 at 8:19 pm
February 25th, 2008 at 8:34 pmThis sucks. To even think that the city of my birth would stoop to this level to appease the muzzies.
This is the town where General Washington first took command of the American Army in 1775 and launched the troops that went to the Battle of Bunker Hill. This still means a whole hell of allot to me and many who are patriots.
This university and town is a disgrace.
Harvard is out of its’ freaking mind.
Mr. Pat, nice new web site design by-the-way.
Man, people need to wake the fuck up!!
Or maybe us Patriots need to go around and wake them up personally. The camel is in the tent and is beginning to shit all over. we need to put a plug in it before we’re all covered
February 25th, 2008 at 10:22 pmHear Hear!
February 25th, 2008 at 10:26 pmThe Saudis have probably given those universities tons of money. Follow the money.
February 26th, 2008 at 12:16 amI find it interesting that Muslims are given religious rights but if a Christians ask ………………..
February 26th, 2008 at 6:42 amMuslims have and will use the liberals for control of the US. just like Europe. They will submit to Allah and all of the US will pay for the Liberal policies. Many will be lost.
I bet if the few conservative students asked for classes and forums without socialist douchebags, they would be denied. This country is going to apologize itself into the grave.
February 26th, 2008 at 6:43 amNotice how the jihadis are successfully infiltrating the “soft” areas of our society.
By soft I mean the pussified liberal institutions.
Places where there’s little resistance or down right appeasement.
Besides another jihadi, can you think of a better ally for a jihadi than a well intentioned liberal.
Liberals were born to be slaves.
February 26th, 2008 at 7:16 am:eek::eek::eek:
February 26th, 2008 at 7:48 amThis is PURE CRAP. Imagine any other group, no wait, imagine a right wing, evangelical spin-off group of Christians saying that they wanted this. They would be laughed off the face of Harvard. But no, we continue to cave in to islamo-facism on a daily basis. WAKE UP! Tell these primitives to go back to their own “accomodating” countries if they want to live this backwards ass lifestyle.
I am sick of this crap in my country. Thanks liberals and dimocrits.
So what times are set aside for Harvard’s gay and/or transexual students to use the gym?
Oh, that’s right….Muslims discriminate against those groups.
February 26th, 2008 at 11:09 amthis is the appeasement of fundamentalists. it is the counterproductive and totally non progressive act of enabling sexism. it doesn’t matter if your imaginary friend told you to believe in sexist ideas. its still sexism.
if you are going to pay for a private gym for your sexism fine.
but at a supposedly highly regarded educational institution this stuff should not have even been considered.
and yes this is a failing of the left. if a conservative christian group had wanted something similar they would have been laughed and shouted off the campus. but if muslims ask for absurd accommodation its suddenly fine.
March 5th, 2008 at 9:31 am