Toronto: Sharia swim times prevent dad from watching own daughter’s swim class

Creeping along in Toronto where at least 9 public pools are subject to Islamic sharia law. via Sun News : Toronto dad not allowed to watch daughter’s swim class for religious reasons.

TORONTO – When a single dad signed his nine-year-old daughter up for female-only swim lessons, he didn’t realize he — as a man — was going to be banned from watching her practice.

Chris (who didn’t want his last name published) was shocked when he had the blinds to the viewing area of the Dennis R. Timbrell Recreation Centre pool in Flemingdon Park shut on him and then was told by staffers it was for “religious reasons.”

“I spoke to a staff member and she told me that it’s because of Muslim women, that we’re not allowed to look at them or whatever,” Chris, 38, told the Toronto Sun Friday. “I don’t think religion has a role to play in a public pool.”

Chris said he enrolled his daughter online through the city’s website and registered her for the Ultra Swim 1: Female class – a nine-week course offered for free at the community centre.

Nowhere on the form did it mention that males could not watch the lessons.

So, when he showed up with his child at the pool on March 28 and again on Thursday night, he was confused when told he wasn’t allowed to watch.

“She doesn’t have a lot of friends and I wanted her to swim with girls,” Chris explained. “I don’t know what parent wouldn’t want to watch their child participate. There were other fathers there who weren’t too happy.”

Local Councillor John Parker hadn’t heard of the particular case until the Sun contacted him Friday, but said the dad’s point is a “legitimate one” and raises a “fair issue.”

“If we have a young child and there is a desire for the parent to provide supervision I would hope that we would not be so inflexible,” he said.

The Ward 26-Don Valley West councillor said there are only so many hours available in the pool.

“So we have to decide and we have to determine just what are the options that are available to us and how many hours are there in the day to allow the different options that communities want,” Parker said. “So far the pressure has been to provide hours for women only, this gives rise to the legitimate question: ought we to find time for mixed groups precisely to accommodate the concern that this parent has raised.”

File this under “How the West was Lost.”

The hijra then the sharia:

• Maryland pools try sharia and segregate swimming for women-only
• Harvard Gyms go Sharia
• George Washington Univ adds female-only swim hours for Muslims
• Kansas City YMCA segregates pool for Muslim women, so does MIT
• Oregon Muslim requests women-only swim times, female lifeguards
• North Carolina aquatic center says yes to sharia law – makes public pool private for Muslim women
• UK: Muslims force infidel swimmers into sharia, darkness
• More sharia compliant swimming pools for Muslim women in UK
• London pools enforcing sharia law for non-Muslims
• Australia: Bare skin banned at public pool to appease Muslims
• Amsterdam: Muslim women demand men be banned from pool
• Sharia compliant beaches in Italy
• City of Edmonton launches sharia compliant women-only swimming
• UK: Historic swimming pool may stay open, for its sharia compliance
• Australia: Pubic pool gets $45K ‘Modesty’ curtain for Muslim women
• Muslim owner of upscale Santa Monica Hotel: “Get the [expletive] Jews out of my Pool”

FIFA bans Muslim exec for life after “repeated violations”

via Bin Hammam resigns from all football positions | International Soccer – The News Tribune.

Mohamed bin Hammam resigned from all soccer-related posts and received a new lifetime ban from FIFA on Monday, perhaps closing one of the most damaging corruption scandals to hit the sport’s world governing body.

Bin Hammam, a FIFA executive committee member from Qatar who challenged incumbent Sepp Blatter for the presidency last year, gave up his long-running dispute with the organization after being found guilty by FIFA of “repeated violations” of its code of ethics while head of the Asian Football Confederation.

FIFA said the 63-year-old bin Hammam sent a resignation letter to both FIFA and the AFC on Saturday.

“Mr. Mohamed bin Hammam … has resigned from all his positions in football with immediate effect and will never be active in organized football again,” a FIFA statement said.

Bin Hammam, who has always denied wrongdoing, had no immediate comment on FIFA’s announcement.

Controversy has swirled around bin Hammam in recent years – he had also been fighting a separate life ban imposed by FIFA following allegations he offered bribes to voters when running against Blatter.

FIFA said the second life ban is a result of the final report from the chairman of its ethics committee, Michael J. Garcia.

“That report showed repeated violations of Article 19 (Conflict of Interest) of the FIFA Code of Ethics of Mohamed bin Hammam during his terms as AFC President and as member of the FIFA executive committee in the years 2008 to 2011, which justified a life-long ban from all football-related activity,” the statement said.

According to the Malaysia-based AFC, a yearlong audit revealed “infringements” regarding the “execution of certain contracts” and tampering with the organization’s bank accounts while president. As a result, Garcia and the AFC ordered probes into how bin Hammam managed the accounts.

The reputation of bin Hammam, who was elected AFC president in 2002, has been in tatters since a bribery scandal erupted in May 2011 – a week before the FIFA presidential election.

The Qatari withdrew his bid just hours before FIFA provisionally suspended him, allowing Blatter to be re-elected unopposed.

FIFA used evidence from whistleblowers that pointed to bin Hammam handing out $40,000 in cash bribes to officials in each of 24 Caribbean soccer nations during his campaign visit to Trinidad. He was banned for life in July 2011, but that was lifted a years later by the Court of Arbitration for Sport. He denied any wrongdoing, claiming the FIFA investigations were politically motivated to protect Blatter.

The Islamic bloc at the UN (IOC) is probably offering Hammam a job right now. But not to worry, FIFA is still infiltrated and FIFA Vice President Prince Ali Bin al-Hussein of Jordan – who has begun Islamizing FIFA is still around.

Premier League finds sharia-compliant award to avoid offending Muslim players

The religion of conquest is slowly taking hold of the most popular sport in the world. From infiltrating FIFA to change the rules, to securing rights to U.S. World Cup qualifiers, to removing logo’s, Manchester United too, to owning teams.

via Man of the match: Premier League offers non-alcoholic alternative to champagne to avoid offending Muslim players | Mail Online.

It’s a Premier League ritual and a big moment for the man of the match… as he is presented with a large bottle of champagne in the tunnel after the game.

But a series of embarrassing incidents involving Muslim footballers has prompted the league to offer a non-alcoholic alternative from the Middle East.

From now on, any Muslim man of the match will be rewarded with a bottle of waard – a combination of rosewater and pomegranate seen as a more ‘culturally appropriate’ token of their achievement.

Earlier this year, Premier League sponsor Barclays considered scrapping the award altogether after one of Manchester City’s star players, Yaya Toure, turned down his prize on live TV, telling a teammate: ‘I don’t drink because I am a Muslim, so you keep it.’

Last weekend, Newcastle United striker Demba Ba, declined even to pass team-mate Jonas Gutierrez the champagne after Gutierrez was voted man of the match.

Ba, whose goal celebration is the Sujood, the prostration performed in prayer to Allah, is one of four Muslim players at Newcastle.

There’s something he can keep…to himself. But that too would offend him. He is Muslim. And they must never be offended.

A Premier League spokesman said: ‘We have players from all over the world and are watched all over the world.

‘This is a sensible move and we support it.’

Stand for something or you’ll fall for anything. Submission is never sensible.

Jihad TV network gets rights to US World Cup road qualifiers

In other words, in order to watch the US World Cup road qualifier games you’ll have to do it on Jihad TV. via Comcast agrees to carry new beIN Sport network | Fox News.

NEW YORK – The new beIN Sport network has reached an agreement with Comcast Corp. to be carried on its Xfinity TV.

Owned by the Al-Jazeera Sport Media Network, beIN Sport will be carried in English on the Xfinity TV Sports Entertainment Package and in Spanish on the Xfinity TV MultiLatino Package. It also will be available to Comcast customers online and some content will be shown on Comcast’s Xfinity On Demand.

Launched last week, beIN Sport initially was carried only by DirecTV and the DISH Network, which combine with Comcast to create a total potential universe of 54 million homes. However, the number of households receiving the tier beIN is on is only a fraction of that.

Of the 34 million homes that receive DirecTV and DISH, about 8 million get the tier showing beIN. Network spokesman Mike Kilroy said the figure for Comcast was not available.

The new network has rights to Spain’s La Liga, Italy’s Serie A, France’s Ligue 1 and England’s second-tier League Championship. It also has rights to U.S. road qualifiers in World Cup qualifying, except for the potential game at Mexico in next year’s regional finals.

More here, American War Museum and Al-Jazeera

Qatar own and funds Al-Jazeera.  There is no freedom of the press in Qatar and WikiLeaks cables note that “U.S. officials consider the channel to be a foreign policy instrument of Qatar.”  The Qatarai emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani uses the network as “an integral tool of the emirate’s foreign policy.”

In fact, at a conference in June 2011 at the National Press Club, the panel of experts concluded that “the network [Al Jazeera] is often used by terrorists to deliver their messages to the world” and has “actually helped radical [groups] such as al-Qaida, Hezb’allah and Hamas in their efforts to radicalize Muslims.”

The Al-Jazeera Arabic language network has “frequently served as a mouthpiece for Muslim Brotherhood figures” according to conference members.  Furthermore, independent TV producer Jerry Kenney alleges that “[i]n effect, foreign propagandists have hijacked public television stations made possible by the American taxpayers.”

Back posts. Guess who’s a big fan?

• Al Jazeera ‘journalist’ admits to being Hamas operative

• Obama Hosts Boss of Terror Channel Al-Jazeera

• Obama admin official urges cable companies to carry Al-Jazeera

• Obama campaigner brings Al-Jazeera to Canada

• Al Jazeera bringing English-language kids channel to U.S. (video)

• Ten years after 9/11, al Jazeera airs in New York City

• Comcast opens first ever Arabic-English customer service center in US

Muslim paralympians charged with multiple sexual assaults

WTF.

h/t @CausingFitna

More Olympic sharia – beach volleyball rule change was for Muslims

We called the obvious. The media and IOC tried to present it as something other than a rule change specifically for Muslims, but now that the Olympics are over, the cat comes out of the bag. Buried in an article extolling the virtues of: Muslim woman 1st to ref Olympic beach volleyball – San Antonio Express-News.

Amina El Sergany does not need a referee’s platform to be noticed on a beach volleyball court.

The first Muslim woman to officiate the sport at the Olympics, El Sergany worked the London Games wearing a hijab that, when covered by the standard referee’s uniform, showed only her face. From her elevated position beside the net, she stood in stark contrast to the beach party wardrobe worn by the Horse Guards Parade Dance team and the athletes themselves.

“It doesn’t matter for me. It is normal for me,” the Egyptian said this week in an interview between assignments. “I think first they (the players) were afraid of me, but after that they got used to me and deal with me in a good way. Nobody talks to me about that. They respected me like every other referee.”

It’s been said that the ideal referee is the one that’s unnoticed. But El Sergany said she hoped her visibility would encourage women from all cultures to take up the sport.

“The most important thing is not to win or lose but the participation in these games, to be involved in world actions, not to be isolated,” she said. “I’m proud. It will help lots of women, not only Muslim women.”

In an Olympics with unprecedented participation by women, including the first-ever female athletes from Saudi Arabia, beach volleyball has been fighting the perception that its athletes are more about sex appeal than sport. Patiently tolerating the questions about their bikinis — athletes insist it is the logical choice for a sport born on the beach — players say they are willing to accept the leering because it gives them a chance to win new fans for their game.

The skimpy uniforms are no doubt one reason why beach volleyball is the rare sport where the women’s competition is at the forefront, with TV ratings better for the women than the men. And when the Daily Mail newspaper ran a photo spread about the event on its Web site, it included 16 pictures: 15 of them were of bathing suit-clad women, including three of the dance team, with one picture of the British men’s team, way at the bottom.

But even as women approached — or surpassed — equality in the competition, FIVB President Jizhong Wei knew there was still work to be done. In January, he was asked by the United Nations sports adviser to make the sport more welcoming to Muslim women who, for cultural reasons, would not compete in the traditional bikini. The result: a new rule that allows women to wear shorts and T-shirts.

Who is the UN sports adviser? Was he pressured by the Islamic bloc (the OIC)?

“After the changes, the reforms, women all over the world will be part of this,” El Sergany said. “We do not have any women players back in Egypt. But after the regulations, I will try.”

The reality is that sharia is a means for Muslim men to control Muslim women. Submission of this sort doesn’t help these women, it helps reinforce the brutality of sharia law that treats women as less then men.

In London and at other FIVB events, male and female referees are assigned to matches by the officiating supervisor without regard to gender.

“In other sports, women only officiate women’s games. I want it different,” he said. “Women referees can officiate men’s sports. That makes it really equal.”

Gender segregation per sharia is still years away.

Update: It was a banner year for Islam at the Olympics. A reader left this comment on a previous post, Serb-bashing at the 2012 Olympics

U.S. gymnast’s gold medal-winning routine was tribute to victims of 1972 Olympic terror attack

You’ve probably been inundated with propaganda about unqualified and undeserving hijabi’s in the London Olympics while simultaneously covering up terror wrought by Muslims.  What you may not have seen in the U.S. media and from NBC, who chose not to air a tribute to victims of the more recent 7/7 Islamic terrorist attack, is this. via Olympics 2012: U.S. gymnast Aly Raisman reveals her gold medal-winning routine was tribute to 1972 Munch Games massacre | Mail Online.

American gymnast Aly Raisman has revealed the music for her gold medal-winning floor routine at the London Olympics was a tribute to the victims of the 1972 Munich Games terror attack.

The 18-year-old said choosing Hava Nagila- a traditional score used for wedding dances and bat mitzvah – was a response to the International Olympic Committee’s failure to mark the 40th anniversary of the tragedy.

And for Aly, from Needham, Massachusetts, she said it made her gold even more special.

‘I can only imagine how painful it must be for the families and close personal friends of the victims,’ she said.

‘I am Jewish, that’s why I wanted that floor music,’ she told the New York Post. ‘I wanted something the crowd could clap to, especially being here in London.

‘It makes it even much more if the audience is going through everything with you. That was really cool and fun to hear the audience clapping.’

Eleven Israeli athletes were killed during the 1972 Munich Olympic Games in the now infamous Palestinian terrorist attack. Only recently it has been revealed German neo-Nazis helped them.

Muslims and Nazi’s collaborating as they did in World War II.

A campaign was launched by Israeli officials and the widow of one of the victims for a minute’s silence during the opening ceremony but IOC president Jacques Rogge ruled that out.

NBC’s Bob Costas also blasted the decision, saying it was ‘insensitive’ and held his own moment of silence when Israeli athletes marched into the Olympic Stadium.

Aly was shocked when the judges announced her winning score of 15.600 points that made her the first American woman to strike gold in the Olympic floor exercise.

‘That was the best floor performance I’ve ever done, and to do it for the Olympics is like a dream,’ Aly said.

NBC cut tribute to 7/7 Islamic terror attack victims from Olympic coverage

The underlying theme of the 2012 Olympics seems to be “protect and promote Islam.” via London 2012: Row after NBC drop opening ceremony ’7/7 tribute’ | Sport | guardian.co.uk.

The US broadcaster NBC is facing growing criticism after editing their delayed coverage of the London 2012 opening ceremony to replace the “memorial wall” tribute section with a Ryan Seacrest interview with Michael Phelps.

NBC, exclusive holders of the US rights to the Games, chose to broadcast the entire ceremony on a time-delay to maximise primetime advertising revenue, and were further criticised for refusing to provide a live online stream.

NBC’s broadcast, which began as the live ceremony was finishing in London, left out sections including the reflective moment when the Scottish singer Emeli Sandé sang Abide with Me.

The section included images of loved ones lost by those in the stadium, and was also widely interpreted as a tribute to the 52 victims of the 7/7 terrorist attacks in London in 2005.

On the BBC’s coverage, commentator Hazel Irvine said: “The excitement of that moment in Singapore seven years ago when London won the Games was tempered with great sorrow the very next day, with the events on 7 July.”

However NBC instead cut away in order to show Seacrest, the host of American Idol, interview Phelps.

Neither the Olympic committee nor the media can bring themselves to even admit it was a tribute to victims killed by Muslim terrorists. And the IOC refused to recognize those killed during the Olympic games 40 years ago by Muslim terrorists.

See the 7/7 Tribute video here.

Boxing ref expelled from Oympics after throwing fight for Azerbaijani (video)

via Boxing: Referee expelled from London Games – Yahoo! Sports.

LONDON (Reuters) – Referee Ishanguly Meretnyyazov from Turkmenistan has been expelled from the London Olympics, the International Amateur Boxing Association (AIBA) said on Thursday.

A second referee, Frank Scharmach of Germany, was suspended for five days by AIBA and a technical official from Azerbaijan sent home following two controversial decisions at the Olympic competition on Wednesday.

“I deeply regret that we had to take these decisions,” AIBA President Wu Ching-Kuo said in a statement.

“However, our main concern has been and will always be the protection of the integrity and fair-play of our competitions. I will take all possible steps to reinforce this.”

He later told Reuters: “There is only one truth and we always get to the truth.”

Meretnyyazov failed to stop a men’s bantamweight bout despite fighter Magomed Abdulhamidov being knocked down six times in the final round. The referee was expelled with immediate effect and AIBA said he was on his way home.

Japan’s Satoshi Shimizu, who went into the last round of the bout against the Azerbaijani trailing by seven points, lost the contest by five when all three rounds were scored.

AIBA later overturned the verdict saying Meretnyyazov should have given the Azerbaijani “at least” three standing counts which would have resulted in the contest being stopped.

Jawa Report (h/t) posted the video, Olympic Jihad:

Other than coming from neighboring countries, they don’t seem to be related or connected in any way. The boxer, Magomed Abdulhamidov, is from Azerbaijan. The referee, Ishanguly Meretnyyazov, is from Turkmenistan. I just don’t see a connection. Maybe someone can help me out?

Inviting sharia to the Olympics

In a rather lame piece at American Thinker a valid question was asked. via Blog: The Hijab at the Olympics.

…for the first time ever, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has agreed to send female athletes to compete in this year’s Olympics.  The competitors are jujitsu champ Wojdan Ali Seraj Abdulrahim Shaherkani and a Pepperdine University 800-meter track and field runner with dual citizenship named Sarah Attar.

How and why did the wide-faced teenager, waving the green flag with a sword emblazoned on it that says “There is no god but God and Muhammad is the messenger of God” make it to the Olympics? That is the question being asked by Hungarian judo fighters Eva Csernoviczki and Abigal Joo and American gold medal winner Kayla Harrison.

In judo circles, it is common knowledge that Wojdan, accepted despite lack of experience, is not “nearly at the level of the other Olympians — a blue belt in which everyone else owns a high-level black belt.” A former medalist called Ms. Shahrkhani a “novice,” while another contender warned that “judo fighters are not trained to go easy,” especially on a heavyweight neophyte attempting to gain an advantage at the Olympics by choking seasoned athletes into submission with religious headgear.

And a more upfront assessment in one blogger’s Rant of the Day, via An Olympic First!

Saudi Arabia first participated in the Olympics in 1972. They were warned that they would eventually HAVE TO include female athletes on their team, but the IOC gave them a break at first, in recognition of their obvious, overwhelming cultural backwardness.

In 2012, the IOC put their foot down. Trouble was, Saudi Arabia is the same culturally backward country it has always been, so no female athletes were to be found. They finally found an AMERICAN girl from California who  runs track … whose FATHER is from – you got it – Saudi Arabia, giving her dual identities. So, she counts.

But the IOC decided to go one better. They found a 16 (17/18 – 19, according to who you ask – IOC, dad or the SA Olympic Committee) -year-old from Mecca – home of The Rock – whose dad (again with the dads!  : )  – is an international judo referee, and taught his kid a thing or two. This girl currently has a blue belt. The IOC invited her personally, despite her utter lack of any qualification (and despite opposition from the Saudis!), to participate in the Olympics for Saudi Arabia.

Mecca, where non-Muslims are not permitted under sharia law.

Well, she went. And got them to let her wear a tight “scarf”. And got them to let her wear a black belt – why? Because everyone else was wearing one! (Seriously.) And then she entered her first match…. heh. You watch it for yourself.

Okay – Back so soon? lol. Yep, it didn’t take long for the Puerto Rican entrant to wipe the floor with her – literally. But now I have a Question for you.

They were entered in the 78+ kilogram weight class (171+ pounds). I would like you to estimate their approximate heights (which one is taller?) and weights (which one is heavier?).

… Done? All right. The official Olympic pages say the Puerto Rican, Melissa Mojica, is 187 lbs. (height not given). The official cached Olympic page(when you do a Search on the Olympic site for Wojdan Shaherkani you come up with a page that contains only her name – no other information at all) says that Wojdan Shaherkani weighs…. wait for it… 176 lbs. (height also not given).

Really?!? (Picture high, squeaky, imperative voice on that one….) Seriously? Exactly how dumb do these folks think we are?!? Or is the IOC that dumb? (It would explain how and why they had this girl competing in the Olympics in the first place….!)

On skills alone, neither are Olympians and presumably the Saudi judo player had no choice, but it’s sad that an educated America woman would subject herself to this to represent a repressive regime. Is this the elusive moderate Muslim we keep hearing about?

What’s more appalling about the invitation of sharia to the Olympics is the refusal of Olympic officials to acknowledge those killed by Muslim terrorists at the summer Olympics forty years ago.

“Our euphoria at winning the right to host these Olympics was brutally shattered within just 24 hours when terrorists targeted the London transport system and 52 innocent men and women were murdered.

“Our two countries, Britain and Israel share the same determination to fight terrorism and to ensure that these evil deeds will never win.”

Mr Cameron was speaking at a memorial event to mark the massacre by Palestinian gunmen during the 1972 summer Olympics in Germany.

He described it as a “sickening act of terrorism that betrayed everything the Olympic movement stands for and everything that we in Britain believe in”.

“It was a truly shocking act of evil,” he said. “A crime against the Jewish people. A crime against humanity. A crime the world must never forget.

A crime the IOC desperately wants the world to forget. Replaced with the symbol of an ideology that hates and kills to achieve its goals.

Update: Don’t look now but…Saudi female athlete’s father to act against insults

“I have sent an urgent letter to the Minister of Interior Prince Ahmed bin Nayef bin Abdul Aziz with copies of all attacks made on Twitter,” said Ali Seraj Shaherkani.

Related: Olympic Committee changes womens beach volleyball bikini rule for…?

‘Allahu Akbar’ shouting Muslim tries to steal Olympic flame from torch bearer

There is a scourge upon us. via London 2012 Olympics: Youth tries to grab flame from torch bearer | Mail Online.

A 17-year-old shouted ‘Allahu Akbar’ – Arabic for ‘God is Great’ – as he unsuccessfully tried to grab the Olympic torch during a stretch of the flame’s route through Maidstone towards Redhill.

Broadcast live on the BBC, the youth lunged from the crowd to try to take the torch from the hands of its bearer Anna Skora, but was swiftly bundled away by officers.

In one video posted to YouTube he can be seen waiting behind a car and as Ms Skora gets closer he lunges towards the torch.

Ms Skora was about to hand over the torch to Graham White, a Surrey charity worker, when the teenager burst out of the crowd and tried to grab it.

He managed to get through the line of police officers escorting the torch as it headed through the town.

One of the officers at the back of the group swiftly grabbed hold of Ms Skora and the torch, guiding them to the opposite side of the road.

Four or five of the other torch guards then bundled the man to the side of the road where he was then arrested.

Ms Skora managed to keep the torch upright throughout the ordeal and she continued to smile as she completed her stretch of the Olympic flame relay.

The incident happened as the torch was being taken into Gravesend on Friday morning.

Ms Skora was able to keep hold of the torch as the youth tried to wrestle it from her grasp, and security and police officers stepped in to protect the torch bearer and bundle away the youth.

The youth, from Gravesend, is currently being held in custody and the torch continued on its way without disruption, Kent Police said.

A Kent Police spokesman said: ‘At around 9.55am a man apparently attempted to take the Olympic Flame from a Torchbearer in Rochester Road.

‘The man, who is from Gravesend, was arrested within seconds and is now in the custody of Kent Police.

‘No one was injured in the incident and the Torch continued on its way without disruption.’