Patrick R
2008-03-28 07:35:12
At least Harvard had the honesty to admit whom they were appeasing with this segregation. At my local swimming pool in London they now operate women-only sessions, attended almost exclusively by Muslim women. When I asked why, as a man, I was being refused access to municipal facilities I had paid for through tax, the answer was that “some women had requested it”, with no reference to the religious motivation.
This is appallingly disingenuous and a dreadful precedent set by a public sector so terrified of appearing anti-Muslim that they will accept the superstitions of a vocal minority as grounds to enact segregation.
