How Britain is becoming more Islamic - part 2

As if to prove a point, I came across this piece in the Sunday Telegraph, which notes that a number of local authority-owned swimming pools are having "special Muslim sessions" where ALL swimmers must adhere to Islamic dress code. Examples of this involve women wearing the "burkini", which has just been banned from swimming pools in France.


Last time I checked, this wasn't Saudi Arabia. It's yet another example of how "multiculturalism" means that Britain is expected to integrate with Islam rather than vice versa. Again, how did Muslims cope before? Did they not go swimming in UK pools? Or did they just fit in and do the same as everybody else? What's the word again..."integrate"?

The leisure teams at Croydon council, North Lincolnshire council and Glasgow City council should hang their heads in shame. What are they thinking? I hope none of these councils are Conservative run. In fairness to Muslims, I do get the feeling such a change has been driven by the councils (desperate to show off their craven PC multiculti credentials) rather than by any genuine groundswell of Muslim support. But it all seems to be one-way traffic - integration in reverse.

Perhaps we all have a duty to stand up to this by dressing like this guy when we go swimming:

Is nice? Borat: clearly doesn't go swimming in Croydon

On the same page of the ST, you cannot read from the Bible in the street these days (at least not in Manchester) because to do so is "racist and homophobic". Whereas the Koran is model of progressive liberalism of course...but I doubt the police would be arresting those guys. Remember this?

Nice friendly chaps from Luton

Good for Jim Fitzpatrick!

Given that I've declared myself as a Tory, it perhaps seems a bit odd that I'm going to devote my first blog post proper to praising a Labour MP. But I am!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/6023519/Jim-Fitzpatrick-Government-minister-condemns-traditional-Muslim-wedding.html

Jim Fitzpatrick, Lab MP for Poplar and Canning Town, walked out of a Muslim wedding of a constituent yesterday because he discovered that he and his wife would have to sit in separate rooms at the wedding.

He might have been a bit pro-speed cameras when he was at Transport, and he became "Mr Post Office Closure", but he touches a nerve with this remark:

"The segregation of men and women never used to be a strong feature...only recently has this strict line been taken".

In other words, as time passes, the interpretation of Islam adopted in the UK has become more extreme. So much for integration then.

About five years ago, there was this furore about the need for "Muslim finance" at our banks. The argument went something along the lines of "Islam prohibits the lending of money for interest, and so we need some new projects". Many banks now offer so-called "Islamic mortgages" to cater for this market.

But there have been large numbers of Muslims living in Britain since the 1970s. Did they not have mortgages? Sure, some may have rented, some may have been wealthy enough to buy outright...but are we really to believe that there was not a single Muslim with an ordinary mortgage from a mainstream UK bank?

I don't buy it. This is an attempt to push a radical agenda, and the more craven the British state becomes, the more the agenda is pushed. It's integration in reverse.

Jim Fitzpatrick has at least made a small stand against this.

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