Court rules Muslim girls in Switzerland must take mixed swimming classes

[FarCenter]

Muslim parents in Switzerland cannot refuse to send their daughters to mixed school-run swimming lessons, Europe's rights top court ruled Tuesday, responding to a challenge by a Turkish-Swiss couple who argued the classes violated their beliefs.

The European Court of Human Rights accepted that the refusal by authorities to exempt girls from the lessons interfered with their freedom of religion.

But the interference, it said, was justified by the need to protect the children from social exclusion.

School plays "a special role in the process of social integration, particularly where children of foreign origin were concerned," ruled the court, which is based in the eastern French city of Strasbourg.

Swimming lessons are "not just to learn to swim, but above all to take part in that activity with all the other pupils", it added.

The case was brought by a Turkish-Swiss couple who argued that forcing their pre-pubescent daughters to attend the classes violated their faith.

http://www.france24.com/en/20170110-muslim-girls-swiss-schools-must-take-mixed-swimming-classes

[Lee-Lee]

1. Good

Segregation of women at a young age is not about modesty or anything remotely positive- it is about controlling and shaming and indoctrinating from an early age that as a girl they have to have shame and be hidden and can't do what the boys or men do as equals.

[get the red out]

2. Agree

I hate misogyny, period.

[HoneyBadger]

3. When I was a poor public school kid

Boys took the swimming class nude, as it was white privilege to make poor people pay for swim trunks.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

6. Where is this?

How did they maintain privacy?

[HoneyBadger]

8. Harlem in the 70's

Male gym teacher

[Nay]

4. Excellent. Their reasoning is spot on.

[rollin74]

5. good!

I agree with this ruling

[Iggo]

7. That'll show 'em!!!

Damn girls!