These people were not troublemakers and they were not asking for the rules to be changed in any way, so I don't see how your comment reflects that.

They were most certainly not troublemakers. The pool manager made up an unwritten policy out of the blue in order to discriminate against them and called the children derogatory names. I see Muslim women in full dress at pools all the time. Closed minded people are the problem. They are not.

The problem with that is that they weren't asking for or expecting special treatment. The mayor's deputy chief of staff confirmed that there was in fact no policy in writing prohibiting cotton clothing. Seems to me you willfully ignored some pertinent facts.

@MST3K No I did not and in my initial post I never mentioned cotton garments.
However, if you read in to the back ground of the affair, yes they were trouble making by screaming racism where none existed. Because A) Islam is not a race and B) they were in breach of Health and safety regulations.
It was no longer a rule that cotton garments cannot be worn as swimwear as the fibres used to clog the filters, but it was and is a rule outdoor clothing cannot be worn as swimwear because to do so is dangerous.
So they claimed exception to this on religious grounds, in that their children must be attired "modestly" when bathing. Why? because under Koranic law the site of a child in a bathing suit will tempt a man to sin.
This is evil and wrong on so many levels I would not know ere to start.
They refused to actually purchase long leg and long sleeve swimwear and instead put their children in leggings shirts and hijabs undoubtedly outdoor clothing, making their swimwear so heavy the children had to wear in effect life jackets to stop them sinking.
When it is clearly stated shorts and t shirts are NOT swim wear in most Swimming pools health and safety regulations how can trousers, shirts and headwear be allowed for one group of people?
Screaming racism because an institution will not change its rules for you or anyone one else, it just a ploy.
I am a Muslim so you must allow me to break local authority regulations and swim in inappropriate and dangerous garments.
Okay
In that case I'm a Satanist and you must allow me to ritually slaughter a goat before I jump in the water.
er NO
RACISM Satanophobia!!!!

All I am saying is asking to have special dispensation to break a rule because "God says so" it arrogance and cheek, giving in to arrogance and cheek is bad management.

@Hihi I have never seen I see Muslim women in full dress at pools ever, and have even as a youth leader had to take children out of the pool area for turning up wearing football (soccer) shorts instead of swimming trunks.
Maybe where you are the rules are different, but in the UK at least forty years Health and safety regulations forbid inappropriate clothing.
Also when I was a youth leader in Middlesbrough in the 1980's and 1990 our rec centers were right in the middle of a high density Muslim population, half of my members were Muslim and none of them ever turned up to swim sessions in anything but normal swim suits and if parents did object to swimwear they obviously never sent there kids swimming, because no one ever even asked me about it.

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@LenHazell53 I apologize for accusing you of willfully disregarding facts.