Islamic bathing suits

[Carnyx]

Muslim Athletic Wear Covers Skin Without Cramping Style Jennifer Cutraro

for National Geographic News

April 27, 2006


The design of most modern sportswear puts many Muslim women athletes in a curious bind: adhere to their faith and have their motions hampered or compromise their beliefs in the name of athletic performance?
The Koran requires women to cover everything except their faces, hands, and feet, says Tayyibah Taylor, editor-in-chief of Azizah Magazine, a publication geared toward Muslim-American women.

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[Carnyx]

Now schools are told to let Muslim girls wear head-to-toe 'burkinis' for swimming lessons
By DANIEL BOFFEY -
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Schools have been told they should allow Muslim girls taking swimming lessons to cover themselves from head to toe in special outfits dubbed burkinis.
An increasing number of pupils are insisting that conventional swimming costumes are "immodest" and, citing religious grounds, have been refusing to wear them.
Now councillors in Ealing, West London, are encouraging local pools to stock the £29 Lycra "burkinis" and instructing local schools to let girls wear them.
Teachers have even been given details of an online swimwear company that will deliver the two-piece burka-like outfits, which cover every bit of skin from the ankle to the neck and come with a head covering to conceal the hair.

The burkini is recommended in a document from Ealing council's Standing Advisory Council on Religious Education, which says it wants to encourage "success through diversity".
One of the authors of the report, Nora Leonard, said: "The guidance suggests that the pools allow these burkinis and I have spoken to the firm which runs our pools and they are all in favour of it."
About a quarter of pupils in the area are Muslim and the burkini idea was approved to prevent girls trying to cover their bodies with other, unsuitable clothing during swimming lessons.
"Schools are being encouraged to allow burkinis because of that," Ms Leonard said.
The burkini was designed by an Australian after a group of lifeguards began a drive to recruit more Islamic lifeguards, particularly women, following violent clashes in 2005 between Lebanese Muslim teenagers and white Australians on Sydney's Cronulla beach.
Ealing has also put forward a string of other proposals to help schools meet the needs of Muslim pupils, including setting aside designated "quiet" areas for prayer and honouring "a parent's written request to take their child to the mosque for part of the afternoon".
Schools are also told that it is "good practice" to "reassure parents that their children would not be asked to join in with songs that contradict Islamic belief (eg Christmas carols or hymns) or perform music that could be considered to promote lust, seduction, unrestricted mixing and consumption of drugs, alcohol or other intoxicants".
The report adds: "As a general rule, forms of dance such as ballet, jazz, tango and disco are unacceptable if performed in a mixed environment."
There have been controversial demands from the Muslim Council of Britain for Islamic schoolchildren to be given separate changing rooms for sports and swimming, single-sex classes for sex education, prayer rooms, new rights to Islamic worship and different uniform rules.
The National Association of Head Teachers has dismissed the demands as "completely undo-able".
The suggestions come at a time when the Government is trying to eliminate segregation and encourage "British" values to tackle extremism.

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[Menydh]

A religion... or a medical condition?

[Strengthandhonour]

hahaha that is just silly.
My brother is a swimmer, they usually try to wear the less clothing and weight possible in their body(hair included.)

[Menydh]

ROFL! It's a religion for the retarded!

[bombadillo]

Originally Posted by Mynydd

ROFL! It's a religion for the retarded!

I agree. I feel strongly about this and feel this vile excresence should simply be banned forthwith from European shores. Pull down all the mosques and deport every mullah and imam to wherever the buggers came from. Throw all the Korans onto a pyre and burn the lot.

[Menydh]

My hope is that this serves as a lesson to Europe. It has come centuries late. It was about time.

[Marcus Marulus]

ISLAMIC FASHION FESTIVAL 2007

[gazumpiro]

Top swimmers already wear swimsuits that pretty much cover as much of themselves as possible.

Synthetic fibres are created such that they have less friction with the water than human skin. You cover your body in them, you get to swim faster.

Seems a bit ridiculous and inflexible to me, though.

[Carnyx]

The other extrem is the micro bikini worn on beaches by western women.

[Susi]

wow. O_O I don't wear something like that. If I'm swimming seriously I wear a one piece, and if I am at the beach (lol, beach.. i rarely go), I wear a bikini. A normal one. It covers.

Microbikini = gross

[Carnyx]

Originally Posted by gazumpiro

Top swimmers already wear swimsuits that pretty much cover as much of themselves as possible.

I bet not for religion prescription, though. Those shown here are not high-tech swimsuits.

Please compare:

[Susi]

Actually I would probably be more inclined to wear the burquini rather than the "high tech" version because I am not that comfortable to wear that one.

[Exeter]

It does look ridiculous. Far from all Muslims want to dress like that though. There are plenty of secular people in the Islamic world. It's as wrong to say those ideas are representative of all Muslims as are Mormons and evangelicals of Christians. The passages in the Koran about wearing Hijab are open for interpretation.

[Leland Gaunt]

Isn't this supposed to be in the FreakShow section?

Woman swimming in burka is just insane! Even animals are treated better than Islamic women.