“Excellence, respect, friendship”: Why hijab bans in French sports defy Olympic values and human rights Why hijab bans in French sports defy Olympic values and human rights
“Excellence, respect, friendship”: Why hijab bans in French sports defy Olympic values and human rights Why hijab bans in French sports defy Olympic values and human rights
The three values of Olympism are excellence, respect and friendship. To honour these, the host country France must lift bans on wearing hijabs in sports.
Hijab is a symbol of the oppression of women in the Arab world. It is good that they are outlawed for the Olympics
And the cross is the symbol of the opression of women in America and more, guarentee no ones gonna ban it though.
It does seem to me that you should either have a blanket ban on religious symbols or ways of expression at the game or no ban on one of them.
Personally, I would be fine with either option, although I doubt the former is doable.
Religions in general are not a symbol but actual oppression and not just women but people in general.
That said, have you ever seen anyone at the olympics wearing a cross? I don't recall. Definitely not as visible as a hijab though. Likely already banned for safety reasons (that's definitely a thing for football, not sure about other sports).
Yeah fuck mutual respect as a baseline right? Let's generalize the situation of 1 billion women instead
Edit: I took the illustration of the Muslim woman in a US flag hijab out because it was confusing to my point.
Very happy this is getting downvoted. This way of thinking is typical for the perceived moral and cultural superiority by some westerners. I don’t get it, what are these women taking away from you that makes you patronize them so hard? Like, are you telling me that every single woman wearing the hijab is oppressed? That is, ignoring the fact that the vast majority of Muslims isn’t Arab and that in many Arab countries women actually don’t wear it.
The government dictating what I can and cannot wear is infinitely more problematic than a religion doing the same. I can quit a religion if I don't like their rules. I cannot "quit" the government.
The hijab ban is evidence of excessive governmental intrusion on the individual.
Uhh many religions will straight up murder you for quitting.
Maybe not in a secular western country, but else where yeah good luck quitting.
Maybe not in a secular western country
Like... France?
How can a religion murder a person? States can impose laws that allow or even mandate murder for you quitting the religion, but that’s another instance of a state telling you what to do and what not to do just in a much more extreme fashion.
As for a religion justifying the killing for quitting, well, that still depends on a jurisdiction where the killing would be allowed by the state.
Anyway, I think your comment is derailing a bit because in the case of France it is not allowed to kill in the name of any religion, but it is forbidden to practice your religion freely if you’re a Muslim.