Does the New York Times Think There Should Be Different Rules for Jews and Muslims at Public Pools?
In October 2013, the government-funded YMCA of St. Paul, Minnesota, in partnership with the St. Paul Police Department, launched exclusive pool hours for young Muslim women ages 5-17 to learn the basics of swimming. The goal, reported the Star Tribune, was to enable each of these women to “have the privacy she needed to enjoy the water while still adhering to her family’s cultural and religious beliefs.” The article cited the police chief who had brokered the arrangement, and explained how it worked in detail:
Special considerations have to be made to address modesty concerns so that the Muslim girls can swim and not reveal too much of themselves.