You have a gym at your masjid?
Thats true about the basketball courts tho. At my masjid we have an additional section with a volleyball net girls play on occasionally but idk if all masjids do this
Firstly only few masjids in MN got a gym. Secondly the masjid I go to recently built one and it’s always used by males, and yes all masjid in MN prioritize the boys. The majids that “
got” consideration for the women only give few hours of one day. Not even the full f*cking day! What’s worse, the few hours they give are the worse hours. Either late at night or during working hours.
what I find really disgusting from these Somali male community leaders is when they are asking money to build these courts/gyms, they always talk about wanting to help the youth and give the youth their own spaces. I’ve learned that the word
youth is a key word for their boys only.
when it’s built, the women will ask for use of the gym and that’s when their misogynistic and sexist nature rears it’s ugly head. Talking about you’re a girl what do you need the gym/court for. Isku xishood, what kind of gabar bodbods….etc
you would think that since there are less places for Muslim girls to play sports/excersise comfortably, they would help them and give some days of the gym to them. They don’t do that at all.
I’ve told Somali girls to not bother donating or giving money to these Somali elders to build the gym for the “
youth”. They are selfish bastards that won’t give us even an inch. Unless these elders write an equal amount of days/hours for both genders to use the gym and it is a sign contract, I will never donate for a muslim or Somali ”y
outh” gym