I believe in respect for people of other faiths and beliefs, but this is nuts!
A new play center, Kids Go Wild, in Birmingham, U.K. has a café, several slides, a ball pit, monkey bars and more. But it isn’t the center’s facilities that are gaining attention. They’ve branded themselves as “what you’ve all been waiting for, the UK’s first ladies and children’s only soft play centre!”
Dads and other community members are outraged; a play center that bans fathers is not what they’ve been hoping for, the Birmingham Mail reports. Many call the policy sexist and now, the Equality and Human Rights Commission is investigating to see whether the facility can continue to act as a dad-free zone.
According to the Birmingham Mail, “They claim the ban is for ‘cultural’ reasons and in the interests of the ‘predominantly Asian’ local community.” Birmingham is home to a large Asian population as well as a large Muslim community, the Herald Sun reports.
But residents find fault in Kids Go Wild’s logic. “In the Muslim community men and women being separate is normal at religious events and social functions. But a play centre isn’t a religious or function thing, “dad-of-three Tariq Mahmood told the Birmingham Mail. Habib Rehman, a Muslim dad-of-four, agrees. “This is a worrying situation – there’s something wrong here when a dad can’t take his kids to a play centre,” he told the paper.
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