Mosque in Uber-Liberal London Enclave Bans All Females Over 12 From Charity Park Run… So Where Are the Howls of Outrage From the Wokerati?
Britain is quietly creeping towards sharia law, say critics, after East London Mosque banned women and girls over 12 from its supposedly “inclusive” charity run. The Mail on Sunday has the story.
The 5km event being held in an East London park today – which has been billed as “inclusive” and “family-friendly” – is open to men and boys of all ages, but organisers insist that female teenagers and women can be forbidden from joining in.
The fundraiser, called Muslim Charity Run and organised by East London Mosque, is being held in Victoria Park in Tower Hamlets.
The local authority is run by the Aspire Party, set up by Bangladesh-born politician Lutfur Rahman, a former Labour councillor who was removed from office for electoral fraud in 2015, but re-elected in 2022.
Bordering on trendy Hackney, the area is often frequented by the capital’s hipsters and artists.
But the move by East London Mosque to ban females over 12 from the event comes amid growing concerns about the rise of sharia values taking precedence over British laws and traditions in communities across the country.
Last night, after being alerted to the Muslim Charity Run’s segregation rules by the Mail on Sunday, the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) said it would assess the case.
Outraged campaigners said banning some women was “plainly unlawful” and “regressively sexist” – and accused the organisers of being more “conservative” than Saudi Arabia. …
And Kellie-Jay Keen, founder of feminist group Party Of Women, said: “Banning women and girls over the age of 12 from a public charity event is plainly unlawful… and reinforces regressive sexist attitudes towards women’s place in public life.” …
The annual event, originally named Run 4 Your Mosque, has been held in Victoria Park since 2012 without drawing any public criticism of its anti-women policy.
But the MoS is aware of one woman, who goes by the name ‘Farahyd89’ on social media, who has repeatedly attempted to raise the issue with organisers.
She wrote on Instagram: “Why aren’t women allowed to join?” and in another post she said: “Why are you not allowing women to even walk? Your grandmothers and mothers with prams also not welcome?”
On its website, the event claims to be an “inclusive” family day out that allows “men, boys of all ages and girls under 12” to take part.
When pressed by the MoS if that meant teens and older women could not run, the East London Mosque organisers confirmed that they are banned. …
The revelations will compound fears that there is a growing tide of ‘sharia’ values in Britain – a concern raised by President Donald Trump at the UN last month. …
Yesterday, Ms Keen said: “The East London Mosque Trust reports annual revenues exceeding £5 million, including £10,000 from the Government, and claims to spend much of this on education, training, social welfare and community cohesion.
“It raises serious questions about how much of their charitable activity may also breach the Equality Act.”
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Misogynists are weak men who feel threatened by women. They need to keep women down in order to elevate their own status and feel better about themselves, so riddled with feelings of inadequacy they are. The superiority complex must be fortified always. The reason they’ve banned females for this event is because they were afraid some awesome 13yr old girl would whip their pathetic, insecure arses in the race, and can you imagine the fall-out if that happened?😄
And this article misrepresents Kellie-Jay Keen and her Party of Women group, because she’s not a feminist and goes out of her way regularly to state this, along with her reasons. In fact, she’s taken a lot of hate from so-called feminist organisations who have smeared her as “far right”. Why do people seem to have this automatic compulsion to conflate feminism with any woman standing up for females sex-based rights? The two things could not be further apart, as we’ve discussed many times now on here.
You don’t need to listen to the full half hour, just the first 3mins will suffice, but here she is just recently stating her opposition to feminists and calling them out on the hypocrisy;
https://x.com/ThePosieParker/status/1976645468575916422
Been a fan of Posie since she did her first interview on Triggernometry in 2019. Love her directness, boldness and refusal to give one nanometre on the boundaries between men and women.
I think a think a lot of feminists and woketards have contempt for her working classness, for having the temerity to enter the fray, so assertively, and yet speaking “like that” 🤐
I think she’s a ⭐
Yes, women unapologetically voicing their unfiltered opinions are dangerous things, according to some, who can’t seem to handle it. She’s had an awful lot of hate as a consequence, yet carries on regardless. I empathise.🙂
The only adequate way to consider this is to imagine the rea tion if we are to organise a white Christian park run, at which Muslims were not allowed.
For a start saddo khan’t would ban it and the met would arrest the organisers.
The BBC would be all over it like a rash questions in parliament.
‘Nuff said.
“The reason they’ve banned females for this event is because they were afraid some awesome 13yr old girl would whip their pathetic, insecure arses in the race”
No, I disagree.
The primary reason is not because they are scared of a woman outperforming them.
They banned women because in Islam women are not allowed to do certain things. They perceive this as divine law.
Nope. I regularly see Muslim women exercising both in mixed-sex gyms and at the swimming baths. They just cover up. Remember, the Quran appears to be open to many interpretations and the rules seem to be whatever certain men say they are. There is not even explicit rules that state women must cover their hair and faces, yet how many do?
Your female Muslim MPs in the UK are a good example of such inconsistencies: Mahmood, Sultana, Ali, Qureshi et al do not cover up and yet there’s the other ‘Hijabis’ that do.
If your theory were correct then maybe we’ll see another charity run just for female Muslims, but I shan’t hold my breath. Nothing says “inclusive” like a load of misogynist men banning their wives and daughters because their egos couldn’t stand it if these women ran rings around them.
The son of some friends of my parents used to be married to a woman¹ who insisted on being orthodox. This caused quite a nuisance during family gatherings as it – for instance – meant that neither she nor anyone else of her family was allowed to touch kitchen utensils the unwashed others had come in contact with.
What people believe their religion commands them to do varies very wildly.
¹ They’ve meanwhile separated because of ‘female competition’ she also didn’t particularly like. 🙂
My beef with this topic specifically is that they stated the event was “inclusive”. Had they not done that then maybe this wouldn’t have attracted so much attention and controversy. After all, what is inclusive about banning the opposite sex? Did they misspell ‘exclusive’?🤔Is this the latest example of the bastardization of the English language? Or where reality is subverted?
Also, had they gone ahead and organized a second run just for the females I again suspect it’d fly under the radar, because ‘cultural differences’, then at least that would be deemed fair and reasonable. But to my knowledge that isn’t what’s planned. So this appears to be the inequality ( literal gender apartheid in some Muslim countries ) that is rife within Islam being shoved in our faces.
It was only a fun run though, for crying out loud. I can understand serious races being sex-segregated, like they are in professional athletics on the telly. But how can you legitimately advertise your event as “family-friendly” whilst banning the mothers, sisters and daughters?🧐
“Misogynists are weak men who feel threatened by women. They need to keep women down in order to elevate their own status and feel better about themselves,”
They do his to other men also. This ancient and default method of control is trying to reassert itself which is why individual merit and self worth have come under attack. These men are not weak and are very dangerous to Western men and women alike.
How’s that different from organizing a men-only cricket match for charitable purposes?
Further, this is a religious organization of a religion that’s not prohibited in Britain and hence, adherents of this religion are obviously allowed to live their lifes according to its rules. If Kellie-Jay Keen thinks that’s not ok, she needs to argue in favour of banning Islam as not compatible with British values, not random activities organized by Muslims according to their own rules for them.
Agree on the principle, but I don’t believe that men-only cricket matches are organised to be men-only. They just are.
Same cannot be said for park runs. It’s normal for those to have all ages and both sexes.
Cutting out women is not compatible with British public life. A park run is a public event. I tend to agree that conducting a public event in this way is evidence of the increasing normalisation of Sharia Law.
Agree on the principle, but I don’t believe that men-only cricket matches are organised to be men-only. They just are.
Well, then make it a men-only wrestling competition. It’s a sporting event, possibly with charitable purposes, where attendance is restricted by sex. It’s not only Muslims who do that. Secular non-muslim society does it as well, just based on different rules.
Same cannot be said for park runs. It’s normal for those to have all ages and both sexes.
Cutting out women is not compatible with British public life. A park run is a public event.
An event is open to the public if the organizers want that. In this case, the organizer is a religious organization that’s legal in the UK and the event thus follows the rules which are common among adherents of this religion. It’s perfectly ok (in my opinion at least, the Labour party might see this rather differently) to claim that Muslim rules for sex segregated social gatherings are wrong and that people shouldn’t obey them. But for as long as these rules themselves are legal, there’s no reason why private organizations shouldn’t be allowed to follow them for their own events.
“But for as long as these rules themselves are legal, there’s no reason why private organizations shouldn’t be allowed to follow them for their own events.”
This isn’t a men-only club, or a women-only club. This is a public event organised by a religious body. I cannot understand how you don’t see why excluding women from this event is unlawful.
But why should we care about this?
More importantly, as the Norwegian Patriot Fjordman once said,
“ISLAM MUST BE EXPELLED FROM THE WEST.”
It is also in a public park, and more importantly on British Soil.
It’s obviously not a public event because attendance is limited by the organizer. The name of the event – Run 4 Your Mosque – also strongly suggests a stricter limitation than what these complaints are about, namely, a limitation to people who actually have a mosque¸ that is, male Muslims, presumably intended to be from the area where the event is held. If you think that’s unlawful and there’s a reason to care for that, sue them. I think it probably isn’t because sex-seggregated events according to Islamic rules are legal in Britain as Islam is and regardless of that, I don’t quite undestand why anything would care about attendance rules of events organized by Muslims for other Muslims. That’s their private picnic, so to say, and they’re as allowed to hold these in public parks as all other people.
A men only cricket match would not include females under but not over the age of twelve, and it would be unlikely to be in receipt of taxpayers’ money to support social cohesion.
Very poor analogy. It’s obvious that preventing female activity over, (not under), a certain age is signalling the life they will be expected to live. We don’t restrict female’s lives over a specific age in this country, or hadn’t you noticed?
Islam does that. How come you haven’t noticed and why do you blame me for stating it?
I find it disturbing that male adherents to the Islamic faith find the presence of the adult female form objectionable.
I find these guys highly annoying, including most of their habits, eg, men wearing nightgowns in public. OTOH, for as long as they mind their own business, I have no right to interfere with that just because of my private opinions.
If you are an adolescent or adult female of any race, (no pun) creed, or religion the ban applies and has become your business. You might well remain unaffected- this time.
No. Focussing on these things is just a distraction from the wider problem of the Mass Third World Invasion of the West.
As I wouldn’t want to do anything to support mosques in London, that’s none of my concern. I also strongly suspect that Kellie-Jay Keen also doesn’t want to support mosques in London and that she really wants to make an anti-islamic statement but tries to make it appear as something else. And that’s – in my opinion – not commendable.
I find the presence of all adherents to that cult in the West disturbing.
Hopefully it is possible to organise single-sex events in the UK today, but this doesn’t soun like a competition, more like a fun run – and girls are allowed. So it would be interesting to hear the organiser’s explanation or reasons for banning women. I suppose if they just say ‘we did because Islam’ then the law would be behind them.
*Everyone* should be stating the obvious – that Islam is not compatible with British values. This doesn’t make it okay for some Muslims to discriminate in a country where discrimination is unlawful.
I’d put this in the same category as ‘ I support free speech, but you’re not allowed to say that.’. Lets face it, over the last 15 years there was a tremendous big push for ‘…and women’ to be included in everything that used to be the preserve of males. But that doesn’t apply in the reverse. For many years Cancer Research’s Race for Life was a woman only event. Men being excluded because they ‘tend to be too competitive’. That came to an end in 2019, but many ‘Female’ only events are still run. Of course people will see an Islam angle in this and call it religious discrimination when it is actually just a selective entry. Dads and their kids. If it was a Kids event, under 13s only, is that discriminatory. If its just people in wheelchairs, is that discriminatory.? Maybe the Dads just want to have a run without the missus giving them rabbit in the ear.? I dont see this as anything other than their own business to make the rules. It is a charity event, set up for themselves, by themselves. What they do with the money might need a closer look, but we’re… Read more »
100% agree.
I basically agree. People can organise whatever runs they like.
The problem is that the tolerance doesn’t go both ways. Shall we all head over to Saudi Arabia and organise a men and women’s run through the streets of Riyadh in shorts and t-shirts? Or better still to do a women’s only bikini fun run through in Islamabad.
And one can’t help suspecting that given half a chance, if they could have it their way, they’d make everyone here in Britain follow their Sharia Laws. I could be wrong, but I don’t think I am.
In my ideal world we would all be tolerant of each other and people organise themselves however they want without (physically) hurting anyone else. But I don’t think they believe in my ideal world.
That’s a different question. Law and customs in our society are much more liberal than in Saudi Arabia and Pakistan and because of this, Muslims in the UK are allowed to things in their own way despite infidels in Muslim countries very likely wouldn’t be allowed to do that. Bluntly put, this means We’re better than them (at least for our idea of better) and I can certainly live with that.
That at least a sizable minority of the Muslims living in Western European countries would love to turn these into Muslim countries, caliphate and Sharia law included, is well-known. This is obviously not acceptable and to be fought whereever it rears its misshapen head. But a charity sporting event organized by Muslims for other Muslims in support of Muslim religious buildings is not an example of that.
Did you read the article?
It’s slowly percolating into the heads of some of my leftie friends that they don’t want to live in a theocracy.
Very, very slowly unfortunately.
So organising a ‘Muslim Charity Run’ is ok then? How about a Christian Charity Run?Thought not…
Spot on!
5 km? 3 miles. I’d imagine it’s taken in easy sections of a hundred yards, then stopping to rest…
I guess it must be quite difficult to run 3 miles wearing a full burqa.
Except there’s loads of Muslim women who do not wear burkas. They just dress modestly and cover up. There were even female athletes competing in the Olympics that demonstrated this. See my above comment.
I meant the Muslim men and boys can only run a little ways! 🙂
East London Mosque organisers confirmed that women are banned from taking part in the run and told the media that they don’t give a monkey’s about anybody’s opinion.
I wish the Men of the West would take a similarly robust view of setting up their own clubs and sports teams for men only, if they choose, without being continually badgered by feminists hammering on the doors demanding entry.
Women are allowed to have female-only groups, and so should men if they choose.
I agree.
But I think this particular group of men have other ideas. Like eventually not letting anyone do things any way but theirs.
I really wish we were just seeing a group of guys wanting to do their thing, happy with everyone else doing theirs, but I don’t think that’s what we’re seeing here.
An annoyance for park run enthusiasts is trans women taking the women’s records, not to mention beating a lot of the men. Imagine that happening on a mosque-organised event!
I wonder what they’re training for?
They are now trying to defend themselves by saying that it is not against the law to hold single sex events in this country and that these happen elsewhere all the time. The point is that this is not a single sex event as girls under 12 are permitted to run. It is discriminating against girls and women over the age of 12.