Fox News seems to have a serious problem with the safety of Muslim children.
Monday morning,?Heather Nauert, a news reader for Fox and Friends, reported on the creeping Sharia threat rearing its ugly head in St. Paul, Minn. where St. Paul Police Department teamed up with local the YMCA to offer Somali-American girls swim classes.
According to Nauert:
The minority [is] becoming the majority at one community pool. Sharia law is now changing everything.
This means during the one hour class, the pool is being shut down. The men’s locker room is being locked and female life guards are being brought in. Similar classes are now starting at towns across the Midwest.
The girls swim group started in October and serves 5 to 17-year-olds to learn the basics of swimming. Female only swim times aren’t unique to this YMCA.
City Heights YMCA in San Diego, Calif. offers women only classes. Tukwila, a suburb in Seattle,?also offers women’s only swim periods. Both institutions promote these times as a chance for women who are uncomfortable with their body image or uncomfortable around men to come and swim with other women; this is also a great time for Muslim women who wear hijab to enjoy recreation while practicing their religion.
For many of the young girls this is the first chance they have ever had to learn to swim. Not only do classes like these afford them the chance to learn basic skills; but for many it’s the first step to making exercise more accessible.
But for Fox News anchors the sign that Sharia law is creeping in ?towns across the Midwest,? is a YMCA teaching young girls how to swim in the land of 10 thousand lakes.
Fox News citing this as a case for alarm fits with their history of pushing Islamophobia and the myth of ?creeping Sharia.? This attack on Muslim girls learning to swim shouldn’t surprise many.
Remember that just weeks ago Fox News host Brian Kilmeade gave SEAL Team 6 a scolding for their unwillingness to kill Muslim children in order to carry out their mission.
Edited/Published by: SB
