Wednesday, August 2

Allah Towers
Welcome to integrated Britain! Alton Towers, Englands premier theme park is having a 'Muslims Only' day in September. No smoking, no alcohol, no gambling and only halal food served. Males cannot sit next to females on the rides. Only visitors who have bought tickets from Islamic Leisure will be granted entry on the day and the Muslim Public Affairs Committee declared it "a day exclusively for our brothers and sisters". I mean, it's not as if Muslims are refused entry to the park whenever they visit. Whatever next? A day for the gays? Hurrah! Ah, but, entry on the 'Gay Day' is open to everyone regardless of their orientation whereas the Muslim Day is highly exclusive. Can you imagine the stink if a 'Christians Only Day' was organised.
UPDATE: Muslim Day has been cancelled due to 'poor ticket sales'. Absolutely nothing to do with the barrage of complaints on the fan-forums I suppose. The main complaint seems to be that Alton Towers post their opening dates for the entire year on their website but this 'closed' event was taking place on an 'open' day. All this fuss could have been avoided if Islamic Leisure had booked the park for their event once the 'official' season was over (British Telecom do this every spring for their employees).

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