Headgear ban at NY amusement park sparks scuffles

[jhu]

Headgear ban at NY amusement park sparks scuffles

I was imaging braces when I read this... *shudder*

 

[routan]

Didn't your mother teach you never to talk to strangers? How do I know you're not a pervert or a kook?

i am a "mooslem", so by the standards of this board, i am a kook. :$
but you dont have to worry, i didnt go to suicide school.

 

[Atomic Playboy]

LOL the park should ban women with long hair from going on rides too for their safety. Imagine if a woman's hair got caught and scalped her.

The last amusement park I was at made people with long hair tie it up to go on certain rides. If you didn't tie up your hair, you didn't ride. Didn't matter if you were male or female, didn't matter why you had long hair, that was the rule. Seems simple enough...

 

[her209]

It's private property. The rules don't have to make sense to you, they only have to make sense to the owner.

A company that implement rules for safety of the riders is fine, but don't implement discriminatory policies under the guise of safety or guess what? You get sued.

 

[JockoJohnson]

A company that implement rules for safety of the riders is fine, but don't implement discriminatory policies under the guise of safety or guess what? You get sued.

So do you think the park was being discriminatory or being safe? I am being honest when I say I can't tell if that is what you were implying with this incident or just in general.

 

[her209]

So do you think the park was being discriminatory or being safe? I am being honest when I say I can't tell if that is what you were implying with this incident or just in general.

I'm not trying to imply anything in this incident being reported, but I would err on the side of safety. But as I stated, if the intention of requiring the woman to remove their headscarves for safety concerns, then why not require woman with long hair to shorten their hair or ban them as well?

 

[SandEagle]

It's probably your wet dream to make it illegal to criticize Islam in America or on a bulletin board, but this is still a free country. Nobody has to respect your make-believe.

lol infopigeon. u r funnay. take a look at speech laws around the world in dozens of free countries and see which topic gets you locked up in solitary confinement. it certainly isnt about criticizing islam. maybe criticize the existence of God? nope, they may give u a nobel prize for that. hint: ernst zundel, david irving, speech laws across canada and the EU. just a matter of time before your wet dream comes to our good land. your allegiance does not lie with the US. we can see through u. oh yes, my hippo-crite infopigeon buddy, we all know.

 

[Newbian]

I'm not trying to imply anything in this incident being reported, but I would err on the side of safety. But as I stated, if the intention of requiring the woman to remove their headscarves for safety concerns, then why not require woman with long hair to shorten their hair or ban them as well?

As was said before, many places have them tie it up or they can't ride.

No one is forcing them to go on the rides that have these rules for a reason but when you make a issue like they did they found out the hard way you can't force your beliefs on others to get your way.

 

[CanOWorms]

It's private property. The rules don't have to make sense to you, they only have to make sense to the owner.

It is not private property. It's public.

 

[Newbian]

It is not private property. It's public.

Just because it allows people in that pay for it does not mean it's public.

 

[Infohawk]

lol infopigeon. u r funnay. take a look at speech laws around the world in dozens of free countries and see which topic gets you locked up in solitary confinement. it certainly isnt about criticizing islam. maybe criticize the existence of God? nope, they may give u a nobel prize for that. hint: ernst zundel, david irving, speech laws across canada and the EU. just a matter of time before your wet dream comes to our good land. your allegiance does not lie with the US. we can see through u. oh yes, my hippo-crite infopigeon buddy, we all know.

I don't know what you're aiming for with your texting style but it makes you look retarded.

 

[tvarad]

I'm not trying to imply anything in this incident being reported, but I would err on the side of safety. But as I stated, if the intention of requiring the woman to remove their headscarves for safety concerns, then why not require woman with long hair to shorten their hair or ban them as well?

These rides can be and have proved to be fatal at times, hence those who run the park err on the side of caution. Each park is run by it's own set of rules because it is a private entity so they get to set them as to what they think makes their rides safer. It may come as a surprise to you but when you fall from a hundred feet in the air you will be a bug-splat on the ground, or a body part comes in the way of mechanical movement, you could lose it. If I go on one of these rides, that is what is paramount in my mind and I feel safer when I see the rule-set. Whether my hair is showing or not is the least of my concern, or that of most of the people who visit these parks to have a good time. The U.S. is not Iran, Saudi Arabia or some medieval theocracy. Get over it.

 

[CanOWorms]

Just because it allows people in that pay for it does not mean it's public.

While I can dispute that, my previous statement is based on the park being owned by the county.

 

[Ronstang]

Better to enforce the ban than to have one of those women pull an Isadora.

I doubt any of the kiddies here even know anything about Isadora Duncan. Of those that do I wonder how many know that she was the inspiration for the 1934 Buick Goddess hood ornament.

 

[Lithium381]

This is similar to those who disagreed with having to show their face to get a drivers license..... "but it's against my religion" oh, then you get a free pass.....

 

[iGas]

Wow the logic of religious nut jobs. Perhaps they should allow them to wear hijabs while working with machines but sign liable wavers. Similar story with the idiotic Sikhs that will be allowed wear turbans in the police force & transportation agency.

NY law lets Sikh staffers wear turban, grow beard

NEW YORK: Sikhs in the US will be allowed to wear turbans and grow beards in federal agencies like the police department and transit authority after New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Wednesday signed into law a bill that will ensure freedom for employees to practice religious beliefs at workplace.

The 'Workplace Religious Freedom' bill was initiated by civil rights group Sikh Coalition and sponsored by Queens democrat council member Mark Weprin.

In signing the law, Bloomberg said employers must make a "reasonable accommodation" for an employee's religious practices unless following such practices creates an "undue hardship" .

 

[iGas]

American women would gladly shave their heads in order to go on this ride.

WHY CAN'T MUSLIMS FOLLOW THE RULES IN AMERICA!?!

American women are gladly shave more than just the hair on their heads.