Burkini Bather Thrown out of Public Pool
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A Dutch Muslim woman was thrown out of a public swimming pool for wearing an Islamic-style swimsuit, sparking a row between pool and municipality officials, German news agency DPA reported on Wednesday.
The woman, a convert to Islam, was wearing a “burkini”—a combination of burqa (the garment Muslim women wear to cover the whole body) and bikini.
She was asked to leave Hanzebad swimming pool in the eastern Netherlands city of Zwolle, some 120 kilometers from the capital Amsterdam.
The municipality says the pool should allow women to wear the burkini, but pool officials said it does not meet regulations and might “scare off” other visitors, DPA reported.
The pool manager said there are special hours set aside for conservative Muslim women and added that the Dutch lady chose to swim outside ladies hours to make a statement.
Discussions are still underway between pool and municipality officials to resolve the matter, the German news agency said.
[Editor’s Note: Other AR-featured stories about the burkini can be read here and here.]
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(Posted on February 28, 2008)
Comments
Certainly beats throwing non-Muslims out of the pool so that their presence does not irritate Muslims. When I was a lifeguard in university, the pool I worked at had a strict policy on people wearing t-shirts in the water. I can’t remember the exact reason for that rule, but we enforced it zealously. And I agree, seeing a burka-clad woman anywhere does give me the creeps. Aquatic facilities need to ensure they’re bringing in the Infidel customers, or their revenue intake will collapse real fast.
Posted by Matt at 6:42 PM on February 28
The burkini looks like a drowning hazard anyway.
Posted by Spartan24 at 6:50 PM on February 28
There is a reason you are supposed to shower before entering and not wear clothes into the pool. It was explained to this eight year old boy over forty years ago as bringing dirt from clothes into the pool and clogging the drains and filters with cotton strands from the “cut-offs.”
Posted by Tim Mc Hugh at 7:03 PM on February 28
I can’t wrap my mind around a “burkini”. It seems like an oxymoron.
Posted by at 7:16 PM on February 28
Matt wrote:
When I was a lifeguard in university, the pool I worked at had a strict policy on people wearing t-shirts in the water. I can’t remember the exact reason for that rule, but we enforced it zealously.
My guess is that t-shirts, commonly made of cotton and/or polyester, are thus made of material that would clog up the pool’s filtration system. Because swimsuits themselves used to be made of such material or even wool, it wasn’t that long ago that the rule in public pools was that your birthday suit was your swimming suit.
Posted by St. Louis CofCC Blogmeister at 9:38 PM on February 28
Is it just me, or does that suit look like a full-body condom? This is not a joke, about 20 years ago, the Japanese proposed just this solution for foreigners during the AIDS “crisis”. Their motto - No imported diseases!!!!!!!!!
Posted by Lost in Paradise at 10:10 PM on February 28
Jared Taylor has an excellent poing about Japan and homogenous racial societies..they act as giant families where no one group hates and resents the whole…and hence very low crime, and much common decency..an example. While riding the Tokyo subway I got off at my stop and immediately realized I had left an expensive telephoto lens on the seat. I was told by subway official…No Problem.. the train goes in a big circle and will be back in one hour. Sure enough..the train arrived back an hour later..the doors opened..and there was my telephoto lens untouched where I left it. Try that in multicultural New York, London, or Paris..or Amsterdam.
Posted by at 11:23 PM on February 28
Why would any woman from a western background convert to Islam?
Posted by at 1:03 AM on February 29
Thanks for the clarification, folks! I’m surprised I’d forgotten about the dirt, grime, and clogging clothing strands, and thus the justification for the no T-shirts rule. As an aside, that picture of the woman in her burkini is totally weird! Now wearing that kind of clothing in the water would certainly impede a swimmer’s ability (I’ve taught swimming lessons, and in one class, the kids had to swim in deep water wearing long pants and a long-sleeved shirt, and I had to be constantly on my guard lest any of them go below the surface, as I could see them struggling - I taught them to remove such clothing while in deep water - that was the whole point of the lesson - to strip off excess clothing so you can swim properly). Besides, if she’s such a devout Muslim, why would she go swimming at all, especially with men and Infidels present?
Posted by Matt at 11:57 AM on February 29
The pool manager said there are special hours set aside for conservative Muslim women and added that the Dutch lady chose to swim outside ladies hours to make a statement.
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Bit by bit, one thing after another, they demand more concessions, and then MORE concessions. This is one more example. The Dutch authorities had already made a concession to provide special Moslem “ladies” hours…. but that wasn’t enough!
And the lesson from this is that nothing will EVER be enough — until they have it all and Sharia Law is the law of the land, and your country has become theirs.
When will the sleeping Dutch wake up and finally realize this?
Posted by browser at 2:36 PM on February 29
“Why would any woman from a western background convert to Islam?”
Posted by at 1:03 AM on February 29
It beats the Hell out of me! They must be full of self-loathing to be willing to enter a life of abuse both verbal and physical.
Posted by Taurus689 at 5:58 PM on February 29
Give them an inch and they will go for a mile. Give them a mile and they will go for the entire country.
It is a well thought out plan to take thing in an incremental fashion until they control everything and there will be no turning back.
Posted by at 8:15 PM on February 29
What a ridiculous fool this Dutch traitor is in that stupid burkini. Why doesn’t she just leave for one of the sand kingdoms in the middle east? For crying out loud, it’s bad enough that the arabs, blacks and other aliens are moving into Europe. Nordic women converting to Islam? One can safely assume Dutch women such as this have been educated in the propaganda-driven, marxist-multicultural schools of the left. As for diversity, maybe she’ll undergo female genital circumcision, or be murdered in an “honor killing”. At any rate she’ll just be another brood sow for Islam. She’s a traitor to her race and native culture and an enemy of Western Civilization.
Posted by Cherusci at 12:42 AM on March 1
It does seem a bit odd, if she is so “proper” she would not want to be around nearly naked men either. The dress rules do not just apply to women, men are expected to be “modest” in mixed gender environments as well.
Now as far as infidel women go, that doesn’t matter. Women amongst themselves can wear bikini’s or nothing at all around other females (Muslim or Infidel) and at spas or bath houses they wear regular swim suits or even less.
Posted by Sonya at 9:09 AM on March 2