A group of Muslim women in Amsterdam is demanding that men be banned from the Zuiderbad pool while they're swimming there.
The pool's employees disagree with that.
A burkini almost completely covers the body, but the Muslim women feel uncomfortable if the men in the pool see their feet and hands.
Egbert de Vries, mayor of the Oud-Zuid district, says it's nonsense to bar all men from the pool for this reason.
But he says that he can see having women's hour for one or two hours a week. For example, there's naked swimming an hour a week, and that is open only for men.
There is already a weekly women's swimming class in the Zuiderbad pool and a special mixed hour for women 18+ and men 55+.
Parliament member Paul de Krom (VVD) says it's 'quite bizarre'. "This is a world turned upside down," according to Krom, "if they want to swim in a burkini, and then also demand that all men leave, they should do that in Casablanca."
Source: Telegraaf (Dutch)
The pool's employees disagree with that.
A burkini almost completely covers the body, but the Muslim women feel uncomfortable if the men in the pool see their feet and hands.
Egbert de Vries, mayor of the Oud-Zuid district, says it's nonsense to bar all men from the pool for this reason.
But he says that he can see having women's hour for one or two hours a week. For example, there's naked swimming an hour a week, and that is open only for men.
There is already a weekly women's swimming class in the Zuiderbad pool and a special mixed hour for women 18+ and men 55+.
Parliament member Paul de Krom (VVD) says it's 'quite bizarre'. "This is a world turned upside down," according to Krom, "if they want to swim in a burkini, and then also demand that all men leave, they should do that in Casablanca."
Source: Telegraaf (Dutch)
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