Harvard University Resurrects Segregation

Do you think that segregation ended long ago? Nooo, the "progressive" visionaries at Harvard University have re-instituted segregation at one of their facilities.

CNN: Women-only gym hours stir debate at Harvard

Harvard University has banned men from one of its gyms for a few hours a week, a move to accommodate Muslim women who, for religious and cultural reasons, cannot exercise comfortably in their presence.

The new policy is posted at the entrance to Harvard University's Quadrangle Recreational Athletic Center. The policy is already unpopular with many on campus, however, including some women who consider it sexist.

"I think that it's incorrect in a college setting to institute a policy in which half of the campus gets wronged or denied a resource that's supposed to be for everyone," said student Lucy Caldwell, who also wrote a column in The Harvard Crimson newspaper critical of the new hours.

Student Ola Aljawhary, who is Muslim and works out elsewhere on campus but is not one of the women who requested the change, rejected that argument. "The majority should be willing to compromise," she said. "I think that's just basic courtesy. We must show tolerance and respect for all others."

Oja, the majority MIGHT compromise where it is reasonable and fair to do so.

This policy is neither reasonable nor fair.

Illogical and unjust accommodation has now been bastardized into "tolerance." Praytell, where is the tolerance of these Muslim miscreants who had the arrogance to ask for exclusive hours in a facility paid for by all students? Can you imagine any other group even daring to ask for exclusive hours for any facility?

And while Harvard has accepted its dhimmitude (1) voluntarily, why stop there? Why not have gyms for men only? Why stop at gyms? How about entire facilities for men and women? For blacks and whites? For "infidels" and Muslims?

If Islam is so important to these backward androids, they should immediately relocate to an Islamic Republic, not demand accommodations from the majority in a secular nation.

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(1) At Dhimmi Watch, Robert Spencer writes:

Dhimmitude is the status that Islamic law, the Sharia, mandates for non-Muslims, primarily Jews and Christians. Dhimmis, "protected people," are free to practice their religion in a Sharia regime, but are made subject to a number of humiliating regulations designed to enforce the Qur'an's command that they "feel themselves subdued" (Sura 9:29). This denial of equality of rights and dignity remains part of the Sharia, and, as such, is part of the law that global jihadists are laboring to impose everywhere, ultimately on the entire human race.

The dhimmi attitude of chastened subservience has entered into Western academic study of Islam, and from there into journalism, textbooks, and the popular discourse. One must not point out the depredations of jihad and dhimmitude; to do so would offend the multiculturalist ethos that prevails everywhere today.

~ Sisyphus, cross-posted at The Sisyphus Files.