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Originally Posted by punky
You're twisting my point and you know it. I specifically tried to head you off on this already:
My parents encouraged me to mix with both sexes of children (and adults) as not only is it completely normal in the western world for male and females to associate freely, its a necessity to help form healthy relationships. You know damn well in the Muslim or Arab world, that's not the case. In many Muslims countries, women aren't allowed in public alone or aren't allowed in the company of an unknown man alone. Some women that are, aren't allowed to even shake hands with men. In a lot of these cases their spouse is chosen for them. You may not like it, but you can't argue it isn't true.
This gym does not affect classes at all. They are still single sex. What the Muslim parents don't like is having boys in and around the school whilst their uncovered girls are walking about in between. If these parents take that Saudi-Arabian attitude then how are the girls going to be free to go out after school and mix freely with both sexes? They aren't.
Before you go on about me being anti-Muslim or racist or whatever, i'm not. I'm not saying all Muslims are like this, but like it or not, some do believe in the hard-line Saudi-Arabian line for their families.
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Excuse me but who are you to say that muslim parents who send their daughters to single sex schools are a) stopping their girls from mixing, b) abusing their human rights - as you imply in a further post. In some muslim countries women don't travel alone, or mix freely with men alone, but are you telling me that the mixing of men and women doesn't go on? Additionally you seem to think what happens in Teran and Riyadh is what happens in all muslim homes in the UK?
Anti muslim? racist? All the negative comments in this thread have a totally anti Islamic view to them. The usual generalisations have been made against muslims - rather boring by now. Granted there are countries in the muslim world where men and women dont mix in the open - but for you to conclude that it doesn't happen at all is an ignorant view point. Rather then ask or look at other reasons as to why people might object - i.e the fact that the parents have paid their daughters to go to a single sex school, where in most likelyhood at the time of taking their money, the school assured them it was a single sex environment, that is no longer the case. I.e - you pay for something, half way through your contract its changed, and then you complain.
I went to a single sex school, my sisters went to a single sex school, my nieces went to single sex schools. They all mix freely. You also seem to forget that alot of these girls will end up in mixed universities. Have you been into a london university lately? If not take a look. There are many muslim girls in there in a mixed environment and they have not suffered from going to single sex schools.