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Swimming segregation

By David | July 17, 2008

Hot on the heels of Home Secretary Harriet Harman’s proposal to legalise sex discrimination in employment comes news of my local council’s non-white swimming sessions:
A council has been fiercely criticised for holding ethnic-minority only swimming sessions.
Wolverhampton City Council employs special life-guards and instructors for the sessions, which are open to the city’s black and Asian [...]

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Dog in boots

By David | July 6, 2008

Police sniffer dogs will have to wear bootees when searching the homes of Muslims so as not to cause offence.
The Times, Sniffer dogs to wear ‘Muslim’ bootees
But why? Even if rover is usually haram, Muslim authorities make exceptions so that a common list of situations in which doggies are allowed is, for example:

A trained dog [...]

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