Posted by
Ed Lilly on Tuesday, April 15, 2008 9:41:40 AM
So there will be sufficient space for female students to exercise with proper male supervision. The excellent blog, Urgent Agenda, has a post on this article from the Washington Post. Here’s the snippet that caught my eye:
Powerful religious clerics also ban sports for girls in public schools, deeming it un-Islamic, and recently canceled two rare all-women's events, a soccer match and a marathon. Gyms for women were closed in the early 1990s and have been allowed to reopen, but only when affiliated with hospitals.
Further in we find:
Banning the opening of these sports centers is not a ban on sports. A woman can practice sports at home, and there are many ways to do that, or she can race her husband in a deserted area, like the prophet Muhammad ... who raced with his wife Aisha twice.
So what will Harvard do when their Islamic overlords in Saudi Arabia, who have most likely donated millions of dollars to fund various things at Harvard, point out that they don’t want women using gymnasiums? Will the whole separate but equal system for Harvard’s recreational facilities collapse? Will there be a re-thinking of Title IX as culturally insensitive to the wealthy donors who call the shots at Ivy League universities?