@goddess: "Sex discrimination by a Muslim man at a martial arts class...
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The women in a martial arts class were training for their black belts
in Aikido, and then a Muslim man joined and immediately demanded that
all female students effectively be treated like second class citizens
by having to sit at the other side of the room in his presence and not
be permitted to practice sparring with him because of his religion.
This injustice is happening now here in Canada, and as a Canadian it is
my fair judgement that this incident is a violation of the Canadian
Charter because it discriminates on the basis of sex.  Not only is this
a matter of law, but it is also as a matter of principle because
religion is a choice while a person's sex is not so easily chosen, and
so sex must take precedence over religion concerning matters of of
conflict between a person's sex and a person's chosen religion.
According to Canadian law, particularly the Canadian Constitution
(which contains the Canadian Charter), sex does take precedence as per
the following sections (religion is not specified separately and
specifically like sex is in section 28):
EQUALITY
15. (1) Every individual is equal before and under the law and has the
right to the equal protection and equal benefit of the law without
discrimination and, in particular, without discrimination based on
race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, sex, age or mental
or physical disability.
GENERAL
28. Notwithstanding anything in this Charter, the rights and freedoms
referred to in it are guaranteed equally to male and female persons.
Canada Constitution:
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Fidem Turbāre, the non-existent atheist goddess
"Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition."
   Timothy Leary"
    @hlwdjsd2: " "Fidem Turbare, the non-existent atheist goddess" 
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I totally agree with you. This is total bullshit.
JD
"If our country is going broke, let it be from 
feeding the poor and caring for the elderly. 
And not from pampering the rich and fighting 
wars for them."Living Blue in a Red State (seen on Facebook)"
    @goddess: "On Fri, 17 Jan 2014 02:51:49 -0800
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Thank you.  I hope this matter goes to court.
Fidem Turbāre, the non-existent atheist goddess
"I'll tell you what you did with Atheists for about 1,500 years.  You
outlawed them from the universities, or any teaching careers,
besmirched their reputations, banned or burned their books or their
writings of any kind, drove them into exile, humiliated them, seized
their properties, arrested them for blasphemy.  You dehumanized them
with beatings and exquisite torture, gouged out their eyes, slit their
tongues, stretched, crushed, or broke their limbs, tore off their
breasts if they were a woman, crushed their scrotums if they were men,
imprisoned them, stabbed them, disemboweled them, hung them, burnt them
alive.  And you have the nerve enough to complain to me that I davidshields@example.org."
    Dr. Madalyn Murray O'Hair"
    @hlwdjsd2: " "Fidem Turbare, the non-existent atheist goddess" 
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If this is what the asshole wants, he can get someone to start a mens-
only class. But to come in after everybody else was always there and 
think he had the right to demand an illusory right is just macho sexist 
bullshit. 
I wonder how many good "Christian" men are going to hear about the story 
and secretly fantasize a world where they could do that.
JD
"If our country is going broke, let it be from 
feeding the poor and caring for the elderly. 
And not from pampering the rich and fighting 
wars for them."Living Blue in a Red State (seen on Facebook)"
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When the guy loses in court, I hope he doesn't strap a bomb to his chest 
and return to the gym.
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    @dreamerincolore: "On Fri, 17 Jan 2014 03:12:50 -0800, "Fidem Turbare, the non-existent
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It's not going to go to court. Sonja Power stayed in the school for
another five months to try to complete her training, but reached her
breaking point when the Muslim student started distributing religious
literature.
That Muslim student also would not bow towards his classmates or
towards his sensei, which is a huge mark of disrespect; I'm not at all
sure why he was allowed to continue taking lessons at that dojo. 
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Cheers,
Dreamer
AA 2306
"The more stupid the man, the larger his stock of adamantine
assurances, the heavier his load of faith."
H.L. Mencken"
    @goddess: "On 17 Jan 2014 13:03:53 GMT
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No, but I do wonder if he felt intimidated by them and was just using
religion to draw attention away from that possibility.
Fidem Turbāre, the non-existent atheist goddess
"Ah, women.  They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent."
    Friedrich Nietzsche"
    @goddess: "On Fri, 17 Jan 2014 08:53:21 -0500
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Clearly his intention for joining the class had less to do with
learning and more to do with proselytizing.
Fidem Turbāre, the non-existent atheist goddess
"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how."
    Friedrich Nietzsche"
    @goddess: "On Fri, 17 Jan 2014 06:10:08 -0600
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That would depend on whether he truly believes that he'll be rewarded
by Allah in the afterlife.
Fidem Turbāre, the non-existent atheist goddess
"Ideas are more powerful than guns.  We would not let our enemies have
guns, why should we let them have ideas?"
    Joseph Stalin"
    @goddess: "On Fri, 17 Jan 2014 03:27:50 -0800
<quote>
Yes, a very unreasonable imposition.  His expectations also stink of
arrogance on high.
I suspect that this may be part of a larger strategy to convert the
world to Islam by gradually getting people to accept minor aspects of
Islam through brute force over comparatively minor matters (minor
compared to the whole of Shariah Law, that is).
This is why people need to speak out and fight back against even the
smallest hints of these types of behaviours, because otherwise the
wheel gets turned just slightly with each minor gain that the
oppressors achieve until it gets to a point where turning the wheel
back is quantified as a major change.
My intention is to not allow that wheel of freedom to be turned even
slightly in favour of oppression, because it's far more difficult to
recover rights for freedom that are lost than it is to prevent them
from being taken away in the first place.
Ha ha!
Fidem Turbāre, the non-existent atheist goddess
"When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship."
    Harry S. Truman"
    @brianeclark: "<email_address> says...
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It's so cool that the young martial arts student who 
brought this issue to the attention of the media is named 
Sonja Power. Perfect! You almost expect to hear a distant, 
echoing shout of "Mortal Combat!"
-
Brian E. Clark"
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