Swimming Hijabis

[qatarperegrine]

From my sister's local paper: there are arguments going on in Oxford over whether Muslim women should be able to swim in hijab.

Aren't there burqinis in Oxford?

Comments

[y-pestis.livejournal.com]

Funny you should mention that - that's the solution they've proposed. Along with the women in Blackbird Leys who have a women-only swimming session and recommend finding similar women-only sessions at other pools.

Although of course when they did the story on the radio, with an announcer that's American but lived in Oxford for thirty years, it's hard to tell the difference between burqinis and bikinis, especially as he didn't explain and just said something like "Muslim women intending to swim in the pools are requested to wear burqinis instead" so without awareness of the product it does sound like bikini!

[qatar.livejournal.com]

lol. "Muslims are kindly requested to wear the most immodest possible swim wear; thank you."

[kit-ping.livejournal.com]

Shock therapy, I suppose. :) Thanks for the link, BTW, I'd been trying to find a picture since hearing about them on the radio, but was rather hampered by being unable to spell.