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Originally posted by Aussie Rebel
I was just watching the local news and the local muslim women want the local indoor pool to close the pool at certain times of the day black out the windows so that the muslim women can use the pool
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Here's my take (assuming the news story is accurate):
I figure everyone has the right to practice any belief system they choose, as long as their beliefs don't fuck with anyone else. The second their beliefs start fucking with anyone else, I have a problem with it.
Requiring everyone to exit the pool so that members of a certain belief system can swim according to the rules of their belief system is defitately fucking with other people's rights. UNLESS: If the muslim women chose to PAY for that swim time, and chose to PAY for the exclusive use of the pool at a given time, and they PAY for the time it took for folks to black-out the windows and PAY for the employee's time while they leave the pool area ... then more power to them.
But if they ask for those things as a "right" instead of a paid-for-service, then they can GFY.
FWIW, I'm not racist... assholes come in all flavors, as do decent, honest people.