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There are calls for special pool facilities to be set up for Muslim women so they can swim without compromising their religious beliefs.

Naaz Shah of Christchurch said many Muslim women had no opportunities to exercise and were putting on weight as a result, the Press newspaper reported today.

“They become medically unfit. Their health is affected and they’re quite depressed,” she said.

Federation of Islamic Associations of New Zealand chief executive Sultan Eusoff said privacy and modesty were very important for followers of Islam.

He backed the idea of a special pool for Muslims, but said he was not aware of any reports of Muslim women feeling uncomfortable swimming in pools.

“It is not so much a problem of other people making us feel uncomfortable, but there would be an issue if pool dress codes forbid our women covering up,” he said.

An Australian designer, Aheda Zanetti, has been swamped with worldwide interest in a modest bathing costume designed for Muslim women.

The burqini covers everything except hands and feet, and includes a hijood, named after the traditional Muslim hijab to cover the head.

These kinds of ridiculous ideas should not be taken seriously. If a bunch of Christians demanded the same thing, they would quite rightly, be laughed out of it.

Of course this has little to do with religion in the end and more to do with ancient tribal practices, which predate Islam, and whose only aim is the subjugation of women in society. Note how these harsh rules don’t happen to apply to men at all. Liberals who make a point of ‘supporting women’s rights’ should really know better than to facilitate this. They are little more than traitors who are selling out their own hard won values for the sake of political correctness and the utopian dream of multiculturalism.