A time for all things

There is a time and a place for everything, so goes the conventional wisdom. I begin to worry about how much wisdom there is in the world today after reading this.

"Fitness USA, a gym chain, is investigating an alleged civil rights violation involving a local Muslim woman who says her afternoon prayer was interrupted by a fellow patron, and that her complaint to management about the situation was rejected."

The time and the place for prayer is not in the gym, just as church (or temple or mosque) is not the place for a workout! I would think that is something that is relatively obvious.

Speaking of lacking wisdom...

"The manager told me, 'You have to respect her (the patron), but she does not have to respect your God,'" said Wardeh Sultan of Dearborn. "I've had my membership for seven or eight years, and I've never had a problem with praying there."

OK, you are the manager of a business and you don't know that it is not a good thing to tell you customer that they have to respect the other customers but the other customers don't have to respect them? I do hope you realize what this will probably mean to your employment status...right?????

Now there is certainly a lot of common sense lacking in this story, but the bottom line is the gym is not the place for prayer - I don't care what your religion is. If you have scheduled times that you have to be in prayer, then you should probably make the effort to get to mosque and save the workout for another time of day. I'm just saying.....