To think it is outrageous to ban women and girls over 13 from a fun run?

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www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1kwk1204jno

I just caught this on the news-the article isn't clear on the justification for this-but this isn't OK is it?

Exactly.

If you don't live in the UK it's not your community being discussed here, so why are you getting involved? If you don't want "white privileged women" getting involved because it's not our community, why are you doing so? It's a bit hypocritical, no? British women are a community.

Unless, of course, you think British Muslim women have more in common with eg Indonesian or Qatari muslim women than with other British women. But then that's you "othering" British Muslim women, no one else.

I understand the religious reasons for separating men and women for things. My religion does similar. What I don't understand is a family fun run where there's no participation allowed for women or female children aged 12 and over. If this were my religious community arranging this event I would complain about it too. It should be up to the individual women to choose not to participate in a family day if they feel it's not in accordance with their religion, they shouldn't be told they're not welcome to.

As it was framed as a family event there should have been separate events for men, women and children, or even just for men and women and children could join whichever race their parents were in.

Ok enjoy your skewed view. It doesn’t tally with what women can do and talk about here.

Because breast cancer that affects largely only women, was a reasonable exemption related to the cause being supported.

At least they are criminal gangs - regular white men do these things as a fun hobby, and create laws to enable them to do these kind of things almost in the open. Heck, you even choose these dirtbags as your leaders, and worship them as if they are infallible or sacred.

Keep talking, it clearly makes a huge and ground-breaking difference for women, haha.

You are being utterly disgusting now. You are in fact being racist.

Well we don’t need your permission obviously but yes we will. Going by your posts it seems concerning to you that we don’t want the exclusion you are happy with.

Have any women who wanted to take part in the race shown up yet, or is this still just a platform to flout thinly veiled Islamaphobia?

Not really. I didn't expect to get involved in further discussion with my first post, but here we go.

I don't think the argument is whether something is 'worse', It's whether it is lawful. Single-sex events (such as the Breast Cancer runs you refer to) are lawful as there is a specific exception for them in the Equality Act. This event however is potentially unlawful as there is no exception in the Act for "men and boys only, and girls under 13".

Couldn’t have said it better myself.
Yes @Plantine our concern is for our daughters and granddaughters not yourself and other Muslim women.

Hope their daughter didn’t want to join in, because she wouldn’t have been allowed to would she? Too distracting for the men apparently. I can’t believe this happened in London in 2025, hideous.

Single sex exemptions to the EA are allowed.
That isn’t what happened in this fun run event.
And in any case, as has been discussed on the other threads, (and if you mean RFL) they were challenged over the years and they are now inclusive and mixed sex…

Do you not see the irony in everything you're saying? We have free speech too, and will therefore take part in the conversation about an event run by a mosque.

Haha, none of the ladies I have asked have said they are interested in actually doing the run themselves, nor do they seem to have daughters who had their heart set on the race. But their world is so tiny that they think by pouring all of their energy into this matter, they make some sort of massive difference for women. How, I don't know...

We all know what your intention is here. Go away

This in buckets.

Tbf you are pouring in even more. It’s not convincing.

No? Because I have never said you can't speak freely. I only expressed my annoyance with you all, seeing as you have a habit of speaking on behalf of Muslim women when nobody asked you to.

I can assure you women being actively excluded from a family fun run would draw a fuck-tonne more criticism from people in a Scandinavian country than from people in the UK.

How many ladies are there for you to ask in Scandinavia?

I'm not trying to convince you, or anybody. I'm not arrogant enough to think I have that influence on anybody.

We don't worry about petty things like this in Scandinavia. Unless it regards baked goods, but then again, that's generally accepted as a serious topic.

Women. Period. This has already been pointed out to you but you’re too busy being really angry. Women don’t need permission to be angry about issues that negatively affect… women.