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| The all-girl high school dance where boys are banned |
| 2012-05-03 |
| A Michigan high school has staged an all-girl prom. Hamtramck High School, a school near Detroit with a significant Muslim population, put on the strobe light-filled event last Saturday night. Organised by Tharima Ahmed, a 17-year-old senior student at the school, the event drew 100 of the co-educational school's 900 students. As many Muslim students are not allowed to attend prom due to religious beliefs that restrict females from dancing with males, the prom strictly prohibited boys. It was the first all-female prom staged by Hamtramck High but judging by the evening's success, it is not likely to be its last. While many of the students who attended were Muslim, the prom, which took seven months to plan, also attracted non-Muslim students. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #5 Boys don't want to go to the prom if there aren't girls there. Girls will dance with each other because they love dance, boys, not so much. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2012-05-03 22:42 |
| #4 Could be a 'win-win', if they meet up with the boys after the prom (which the boys didn't care to go to in the first place, but had to, because their girlfriends insisted. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2012-05-03 18:32 |
| #3 We need a parent of a young man at that school to go to the ACLU. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2012-05-03 18:05 |
| #2 Hamtramck High School, a school near Detroit with a significant Muslim population, Interesting demographic change. Hamtramck used to be a Polish enclave that got surrounded by the city of Detroit. I wonder if the stores still have signs in Polish? |
| Posted by: SteveS 2012-05-03 17:51 |
| #1 So the girls get to have all the fun of an expensive night dressed up like princesses, while the boys get nothing? I'm afraid someone has their priorities wrong. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2012-05-03 15:07 |