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France Ban French Female Athletes From Wearing Hijabs At The Olympics. by Botragelad: 8:15pm On Jul 18
France have banned French female athletes from wearing hijabs at the Olympic Games sparking a huge backlash from activists.

France announced that it would prevent its athletes wearing the hijab in September of last year.

Now, Amnesty International has hit back at the decision which they describe as ‘discriminatory hypocrisy’.

Amnesty International said that the ban breached international human rights laws and that it prevented athletes from exercising their human right to play sport without discrimination of any kind.

Amnesty International and ten other organisations called on the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to step in.

However, the IOC responded that overturning the policy was beyond its remit, explaining that ‘freedom of religion is interpreted in many different ways by different states.’

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The IOC clarified that its own rules applied in the Olympic Village and therefore athletes would be permitted to wear headscarves saying: “There are no restrictions on wearing the hijab or any other religious or cultural attire.”

Anna Błuś, Amnesty’s International Women’s Rights Researcher in Europe said: “Banning French athletes from competing with sports hijabs at the Olympic and Paralympic Games makes a mockery of claims that Paris 2024 is the first Gender Equal Olympics and lays bare the racist gender discrimination that underpins access to sport in France.”

France is the only country in Europe to prevent headscarf wearing women from participating in most domestic sports competitions.

Rights groups have said that not only does the policy go against IOC’s guidelines but also international treaty obligations that France are required to uphold.

Although the UN have not directly addressed the ban, the UN Rights Office’s spokeswoman in Geneva said: “No-one should impose on a woman what she needs to wear or not to wear.”

She also warned such practices could have harmful consequences and said policies like this are only acceptable under really specific circumstances.

Source:
https://www.joe.co.uk/news/france-ban-french-female-athletes-from-wearing-hijabs-at-the-olympics-448970

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Re: France Ban French Female Athletes From Wearing Hijabs At The Olympics. by Tizmamoney: 8:15pm On Jul 18
Good

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Re: France Ban French Female Athletes From Wearing Hijabs At The Olympics. by MufasaLion: 8:16pm On Jul 18
This is very good. If you want to live and do things according to your religion, go to countries that supports your religion fully.

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Re: France Ban French Female Athletes From Wearing Hijabs At The Olympics. by Iceberg3: 8:18pm On Jul 18
The earlier France handled these evil people,squarely the better

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Re: France Ban French Female Athletes From Wearing Hijabs At The Olympics. by fuckingAyaya(m): 8:19pm On Jul 18
Go to Iraq nd wear ur hijab

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Re: France Ban French Female Athletes From Wearing Hijabs At The Olympics. by Afonjah: 8:20pm On Jul 18
Good one.
So at least we can see the bombs before they detonate.

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Re: France Ban French Female Athletes From Wearing Hijabs At The Olympics. by MufasaLion: 8:21pm On Jul 18
Afonjah:
Good one.
So at least we can see the bomb before they detonate.

What sort of reasoning is this?

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Re: France Ban French Female Athletes From Wearing Hijabs At The Olympics. by Afonjah: 8:21pm On Jul 18
MufasaLion:


What sort of reasoning is this?

A stitch in time saves nine

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Re: France Ban French Female Athletes From Wearing Hijabs At The Olympics. by MufasaLion: 8:22pm On Jul 18
Afonjah:


A stitch in time saves nine

Trash. France never mentioned terrorism as a reason. Stop sounding dumber than I had thought.

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Re: France Ban French Female Athletes From Wearing Hijabs At The Olympics. by Remman(m): 8:24pm On Jul 18
Them carry this their craze go France, them think say na Nigerian northerners.

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Re: France Ban French Female Athletes From Wearing Hijabs At The Olympics. by Afonjah: 8:24pm On Jul 18
MufasaLion:


Trash. France never mentioned terrorism as a reason. Stop sounding dumber than I had thought.

You must be 9 years old. smiley

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Re: France Ban French Female Athletes From Wearing Hijabs At The Olympics. by SangoOlukosoOba(m): 8:25pm On Jul 18
Fvck France!

A country that we have already conquered. UK is already 25% to completion..

Seems they don’t know what time it is!

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Re: France Ban French Female Athletes From Wearing Hijabs At The Olympics. by Paraman: 8:27pm On Jul 18
It's not a big deal, if you can't compete without making use of hijab, you can represent another country.

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Re: France Ban French Female Athletes From Wearing Hijabs At The Olympics. by Afonjananawerey: 8:38pm On Jul 18
Paraman:
It's not a big deal, if you can't compete without making use of hijab, you can represent another country.





I support your opinion, they can go and represent Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran including yoruba Muslim's who live in France undecided

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Re: France Ban French Female Athletes From Wearing Hijabs At The Olympics. by Paraman: 8:42pm On Jul 18
Afonjananawerey:






I support your opinion, they can go and represent Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran including yoruba Muslim's who live in France undecided
When in Rome, Do as the Romans Do

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Re: France Ban French Female Athletes From Wearing Hijabs At The Olympics. by Afonjananawerey: 8:56pm On Jul 18
Paraman:
When in Rome, Do as the Romans Do






We are saying the same thing, France don't want Hijab and those who can't live without it should represent Morocco, Algeria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran and other Islamic countries, bro it's a win win situation for everybody undecided

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Re: France Ban French Female Athletes From Wearing Hijabs At The Olympics. by Zxcvbnmghtr: 9:02pm On Jul 18
Religion sha .....

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Re: France Ban French Female Athletes From Wearing Hijabs At The Olympics. by 33Cyber: 9:02pm On Jul 18
Religious tolerance everywhere
Re: France Ban French Female Athletes From Wearing Hijabs At The Olympics. by Botragelad: 9:03pm On Jul 18
Zxcvbnmghtr:
Religion sha .....
Meme!

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Re: France Ban French Female Athletes From Wearing Hijabs At The Olympics. by DMerciful(m): 9:04pm On Jul 18
Anywhere Obi goes, we follow to achieve the new Nigeria that's POssible

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Re: France Ban French Female Athletes From Wearing Hijabs At The Olympics. by saddler: 9:04pm On Jul 18
lipsrsealed

Great decision...before they start hiding bombs 💣 under it and killing people

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Re: France Ban French Female Athletes From Wearing Hijabs At The Olympics. by femi4: 9:04pm On Jul 18
Long overdue

Let sport remain sport....remove religion from it

Else, wait for your religion to organise their Olympics

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Re: France Ban French Female Athletes From Wearing Hijabs At The Olympics. by Sirianese: 9:05pm On Jul 18

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Re: France Ban French Female Athletes From Wearing Hijabs At The Olympics. by sirblend: 9:05pm On Jul 18
Hamas won't be happy with this..

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Re: France Ban French Female Athletes From Wearing Hijabs At The Olympics. by ednut1(m): 9:05pm On Jul 18
Muslims and wahala migrate to arab or Muslim nations. Stop going to the west

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Re: France Ban French Female Athletes From Wearing Hijabs At The Olympics. by Dpharisee: 9:06pm On Jul 18
For security reasons

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Re: France Ban French Female Athletes From Wearing Hijabs At The Olympics. by Ngwamankillyou2(m): 9:06pm On Jul 18
They should go back to Saudi Arabia if they refuses.

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Re: France Ban French Female Athletes From Wearing Hijabs At The Olympics. by Ezeama400: 9:06pm On Jul 18
I don't know why I find that hijab of a thing ridiculous, especially those masquerade type..

Headslamer and f***lishness

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Re: France Ban French Female Athletes From Wearing Hijabs At The Olympics. by whytediamond(m): 9:06pm On Jul 18
grin
Re: France Ban French Female Athletes From Wearing Hijabs At The Olympics. by YellowbaMoslem: 9:06pm On Jul 18
We Yoruba muslims led by Muric extensively condemns this sabotaging and blasphemous submission by the french.

In no distance time, Nigeria will sanction them.

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Re: France Ban French Female Athletes From Wearing Hijabs At The Olympics. by Neddyogu(m): 9:07pm On Jul 18
Kukuma go run ur race for Uzbekistan abi Afghanistan.

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