Muslim Girls' Basketball and Tzniyuskeit

A recent item at Matt Rosenberg's Rosenblog is entitled "Muslim Girl Hoopsters Want Kuffar Dads Banned From Stands." This refers to a story in the Chicago Tribune about a Muslim high school girl's basketball team which is looking for non-Muslim teams to play, but which faces the obstacle of not being able to appear in front of men in arm-and-leg-revealing basketball attire. The Muslim dads and brothers would already know to stay away, but the non-Muslim dads and brothers would need to be barred from watching.

Rosenberg decries "a diversity apologist ready to support the banning of non-Muslim dads from watching their daughters play basketball against the Muslim team," but I don't understand this to mean someone would be standing at the door admitting Muslim men and keeping out the infidels. I think he just means that the ban would devolve on the "Kuffar dads" and brothers as a special rule was applied for the Muslim girls. I'm with the Muslims here. The Muslim approach to modest women's dress can be a bit extreme, but it is unfortunate that the West has lost its appreciation for modest dress, and gender segregation is reasonable in certain situations. If a school wants to voluntarily submit to the ban on men to accomodate the Muslims, I don't see it as a problem. From the Chicago Tribune Story:

[Coach Farida Abusafa] has considered asking the other schools to play exhibition games, but IHSA rules stipulate that those games would count toward the season total, so most schools would likely turn her down.

Abusafa has also contemplated the possibility of inviting the schools to play at Universal--even footing the transportation and referee costs--to avoid forcing those schools to comply with segregation rules. [Coach Christine] Bochnak, for one, said she would consider that possibility.

Maybe Abusafa should just make arrangements to play an Orthodox Jewish girls' school.

Tags: Islam, Judaism, modesty, tzniyuskeit