Bend it like Azzy?

Posted on March 9th, 2007 by .
Categories: Gender, Kinship & Marriage Issues, Young Muslims, Youth culture (as a practice).

On Sabbah’s Blog an interesting article about Asmahan Mansour: a Muslim girl (r)ejected from football because of her hijab despite being allowed everywhere else she played (news that also reached the Netherlands). The decision is supported by the FIFA based on Law 4 which makes quite clear that

must not use equipment or wear anything that is dangerous to himself or another player (including any kind of jewellery).

It is therefore a little strange that the FIFA website does include several photo’s of girls with headscarves playing football:

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If in any case a headscarf might indeed be dangerous, I have the perfect solution for Asmahan, the officials and the FIFA: the capsters: elegant, safe and sportslike. Oh and Dutch so for football that’s always good.

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