(Switzerland) Muslim girl made to attend swimming lessons

[Nine]

57. You're proving my point for me.

A 14-year-old girl is being forced into a situation she likely finds uncomfortable. I can't find any reason to be gleeful about that, no matter how much of scourge you think religion is upon the world.

I also find the statement, "look into things before you move somewhere," really offensive. The girl may have been born in Switzerland. Even her parents might have been born there. And even if they are immigrants, does that make them second class citizens who have no right to ever challenge the status quo? Do you say similar things about immigrants and/or their descendants in the U.S.?

Look, people can have different opinions about what the proper ruling in this case should have been, but I don't understand why people have to be so ugly and hateful about it. What if the student were a girl who had been sexually abused recently and found the whole situation traumatizing? What if the student had autism or some other disorder and didn't function well in that sort of large group setting? What if the student had been born with male genitalia but identified as female and wanted to participate in the female swim class instead of the male one? What if a student was simply extremely shy and self conscious? I don't claim to have the definite answer as to how to handle each of those situations, but I can guarantee that there would be a lot more compassion and common sense coming from DUers in any of those scenarios. It really feels like people are just making this teenage girl the designated scapegoat for all their own frustrations and bigotry.