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The prohibition of the Islamic veil in the official competitions in France has resulted in an beginning of controversy among prestigious athletes, while in the government he has turned off the discordant voices inside and supports a proposal of law to formalize it that is in parliamentary process.
“The government has a line,” said the Interior Minister Bruno Retailleauon the Europe 1 Radio recalling that the prime minister, François Bayrou, ended last week with the discrepancies within the cabinet and said that he will put on the agenda of the National Assembly that proposal of law, which has already received the approval of the Senate, to be adopted.
With the current regulations, it is the federations that stipulate whether or not women can carry in the competitions the veil, like any other sign of ideological or religious ostentation and in recent years several of them (that of football in 2016, the basketball in 2022, that of volleyball in 2023 or that of rugby in 2024) have prohibited it
With the current regulations, it is the federations that stipulate whether or not women are authorized that the veil can carry in the competitions, like any other sign of ideological or religious ostentation and in recent years several of them (that of football in 2016, the basketball in 2022, that of volleyball in 2023 or that of rugby in 2024) have prohibited it.
The few exceptions are handball, athletics or bádminton, although that situation will change if the law is approved.
“Allow young women to cover themselves because they raise the lust of men in that moment of freedom that is sport, is to kill their freedom”
The Judoca Teddy Rinerfive times Olympic champion, broke into this debate last Sunday in a broadcast of the RMC station, complaining that “in France time is lost in things, and above all the focus is put on the things that do not have to do it.”
“I would even say that we have to think more about equality than to rejoice with a single and same religion,” he added in reference to the Muslim.
A few words that raised the next day on the same radio station the reaction of the former World Boxing Champion Mahyar Monshipour, nationalized French, who was born and grew up in Iran, and that he wanted to remember his own personal experience.
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“To Teddy, I could tell him in the face with his 140 kilos: ‘You do not know the subject, do not mess in the shirt of eleven rods. (…) Teddy, please, if you do not want them to insult your daughter, your cousin or your sister because he goes to the pool or the beach in a swimsuit, that they insult her when she comes out at night, that they treat her as a woman of a bad reputation. You know. “
For Mishipour, “allowing young women to cover themselves because they raise the lust of men in that moment of freedom that is sport, is to kill their freedom.”
The exboxer acknowledged that the will to firmly apply secularism in sport is “very Franco-French”, and that the same does not happen abroad.
But still defended the prohibition of veil in all competitions because those who are willing to authorize it “do not know the danger because they are playing with fire. But when they burn, they will wake up and it will be too late.”
