Sloppy thinking leads to creeping sharia at Harvard

Ali Eteraz has the best response to Harvard's decision to ban men from a gym for several hours a week to accommodate Muslim women who can not exercise comfortably in their presence.

If the university had simply said that the gym was closed in those hours to accommodate “women that do not feel comfortable working out in front of men” — that would be OK. This new classification would include women who might have been raped, assaulted, molested, or had other emotional issues that made it difficult for them to work out in male dominated spaces.

Muslims play a dangerous and stupid game when they start demanding things based on their Islam. Even the most conservative reading of classical Sharia reveals that Eunuchs were allowed to wander freely through the harem. In other words, a known homosexual man who has never had sex with a woman and never will, can make a powerful case under Sharia that he cannot be excluded from the gym hours.

Michael Graham has the funniest
In the old days, Harvard would have laughed if some Catholic or evangelical mother urged “girls-only” campus workouts in the name of modesty. Today, Harvard happily implements Sharia swim times in the name of Mohammed.

At Harvard, that’s called progress.

Mark Steyn has the last word.
In Minneapolis last year, the airport licensing authority, faced with a mainly Muslim crew of cab drivers refusing to carry the blind, persons with six-packs of Bud, slatternly women, etc, proposed instituting two types of taxis with differently colored lights, one of which would indicate the driver was prepared to carry members of identity groups that offend Islam.  Forty years ago, advocating separate drinking fountains made you a racist.  Today, advocating separate taxi cabs or separate swimming sessions makes you a multiculturalist.

Harvard should be ashamed if only for the sloppy thinking that led to this embarrassment.