Some Muslim
women have
signed a petition asking the Fitness USA chain to provide separate exercise days
for men and women, or put up a divider so they cannot see one
another. "In Islam, there are codes of modesty for both genders,"
one of them says, in a small but illustrative example of the
Islamist effort to conform public spaces to their standards. The
women claim that they were promised separate exercise days, which
the gym chain denies. Anyone want to take bets that Fitness USA
will cave, or at least meet them halfway?
topics:
Islam
