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The Sad Case of Rayane and her Hijab and “No you
cannot play”
Now this story is a Sad one. It
is Sad because of how Mad you can get when you read it.
The story is about a nine year
old girl that wears a Hijab head scarf, which is part of her religious practice
as part of her Islamic faith… out of honour for Allah.
Her name is Rayane and she
loves soccer and apparently can do well.
Where did this happen? The soccer
game was in Gatineau, Quebec from what I have gleaned. That is in Canada if you aren’t from my
country.
It is not in an Islamic
country where women are not allowed to be who they really are because of strict
laws made by men… i.e. shut up and cover up everything – men know best. This was Canada!
I have moved to Mad now and am
telling you that it makes me Sad that it happened in our country.
In the article that I picked
up this morning from ABNA
News Agency (ABNA.co) it tells of the story… and if you read it you can see
more in it than what happens when a nine year old girl wants to wear a religious
item during soccer.
It seems that Rayane played
two games – Friday and Saturday games – while wearing her hijab head
scarf. It was the final game – meaning that
their team had likely won every game to advance to that level… that she was
told that she could not play because of illegal head gear that had not been
tested by the officials of the league.
ABNA
reported that this scarf could have been worn… quote… “The order came just days
after the International Football Association Board voted to lift its ban based
on the fact that “there is no medical literature concerning injuries as a
result of wearing a headscarf,” the organization stated on its website.”
End quote
Now putting these pieces together
I am going Mad again and still Sad.
This is about parents of
little kids being jealous of the way that other teams play and the better
players being on other teams – than where your kid is!!! Pure and simple – it is
not about a hijab or any religion or any nationality… It is not about safety!!! It is pride and
stupidity!
I have a 13 year old
granddaughter for whom I have attended a lot of soccer games. I have witnessed
the tournament thing as well where really good teams come in and walk all over
my granddaughter’s team. The final score is a disaster.
The team that beat them in one
case was almost all Black Girls.
Yikes! Even for me to write the
word out while telling you this story is dangerous. People will think that I think that Black is
the reason for the loss “our team” experienced.
That is not so… their team was good – very good.
Heaven help us if we used the
kind of reasoning that the Gatineau leadership did – which is any reason to get
them out of the way so we cannot be trounced.
You’ve got to be kidding
Lincoln! There isn’t that kind of rivalry
in children’s soccer – is there!?
Yes there is. I have seen it.
There are also coaches that
are not very good. They don’t have a clue how to encourage the kids playing. The girls get discouraged as coaches make
dumb statements and bad decisions… and the team loses.
I know one thing about the
Gatineau tournament and Rayane’s team… they all will be affected by the
attitude of the people that forced this ruling at that game. By removing the 9 year old who refused to take
off her hijab.
Now tell me – Sad? Mad? Sad
and Mad? What are you feeling now?
~ Murray Lincoln ~
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2 comments:
I felt very sorry for this young girl who's trying so hard to conquer her dreams of being a best football player. A girl who was taken out of chances all because she is a muslimah and all because she is following a certain religious practice. Someone should have done something to change this rules.
Dear Leonde... I feared that people will take it as an action against her religious practice of wearing this Ha-jib. I doubt very much that this is the problem. Someone(s) has made this ruling more because of selfish reasons and then hid behind the furor of the assumption. It is more likely pure and simple jealousy on the part of opposing parents... What it has taught the team members of the opposing team - is you can do anything you need to do to WIN... hurt others and badger them into submission with your own rules... and then hide. That is Canadian Terrorism at its best(or worst)!
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