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Harvard’s Segregated Gym

March 28, 2008 - 12:55 am - by Annie Jacobsen
John Corn
2008-03-28 15:59:34

If the complaint by the muslims was that the women couldn’t remove their garb in the presence of men, the response should have been let them work out in the 9th century garb. It’s not as if the policy was to exclude the plaintiffs, and I’m sure that burquas and hajibi don’t violate the gym’s dress code.
There is simply no room in our society for any concession to sharia. Period. Nor to any religion, the practice of which is a private one, not to interfere with public life.