“Let us play!
“, shout in heart Hawa, Imen, Émilie and the other “hijabeuses” who organized a football match in the Luxembourg garden, just in front of the Senate.
These athletes, playing in clubs in the Paris region, came to protest against an amendment voted by the chamber, prohibiting "the wearing of conspicuous religious symbols" during sporting events and competitions organized by federations and affiliated associations.
"Depriving women of the essential right to practice a sport and the pleasure of playing is very serious", summarizes Imen.
"It's a question of dignity," continues Khartoum.
We don't ask for the moon, we just ask to play.
Gathered around the association Alliance Citoyenne, the hijabeuses campaign so that all women, and in particular Muslim women, can practice their sport in competition.
The French Football Federation still prohibits the wearing of the veil within its championships, while Fifa has authorized it since 2014.
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“With this type of amendment, Olivier Giroud, who has a tattoo of a text from the Bible on his arm, would have difficulty entering a field”, underlines Guillaume Gontard, environmental senator from Isère opposed to the vote.
“Through him, we are directly attacking the foundations of the republic and especially of secularism which advocates freedom”.
For its part, the group Les Républicains justifies its adjustment of the law by the interest of “preserving the world of sport from any entryism and communitarian inclinations so that it remains a place of cohesion, freedom, emancipation.
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