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"Why the French Football Federation is right to ban breaks during a match to break the Ramadan fast"

2023-04-03T17:30:59.899Z


FIGAROVOX/TRIBUNE - Former member of the secularism mission of the High Council for Integration Guylain Chevrier welcomes, in the name of secularism and universalism, the decision of the French Football Federation to ban breaks during matches for players performing Ramadan.


Guylain Chevrier is a doctor in history, trainer, teacher and consultant.

He was a member of the secularism mission of the High Council for Integration.

On Friday March 31, the French Football Federation (FFF) announced that there would be no breaks during matches for Muslim players performing Ramadan, reacting to "match

interruptions following the breaking of the Ramadan fast ".

An email was even sent to the referees in this sense to recall this position of principle which is not new of "

neutrality of football on the places of practice

".

Neutrality in sport is a hot topic, moreover several players and coaches have reacted variously to its reaffirmation by the FFF in this context.

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Basically, why this neutrality?

Question that no player or coach, criticizing this principle, seems to have asked, only going there with tolerance or not.

We must first ask ourselves if it is possible to take into account all religions with their obligations.

Certainly, it is not even imaginable.

Indeed, each religion has its truth and its requirements, there are dozens of known cults, with their different currents, today in France, due to immigration arriving there from everywhere.

Muslims are supposed not to work on Fridays, Jews on Saturdays… So what do we do?

Are we going to stop playing to take into account each of the religions?

A people must be able to be embodied in a female or male French team, regardless of color, origin, religion, sex, one or the other.

They are football players, period.

Guylain Chevrier

Let's be a little serious.

This asserted religious primacy, which puts religion above all else, should make us reflect on the question of “how to make society”, and the questions that this raises concerning the integration of some of our fellow citizens of the Muslim faith.

Sport in general, football in particular as a model of reference so popular for integration, must be absolutely protected from these influences which have nothing to do with it, at the risk of reproducing in the stadiums inter-community conflicts contrary to the idea of make people.

A people must be able to be embodied in a female or male French team, regardless of color, origin, religion, sex, one or the other.

They are football players, period.

They carry values,

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But also, why should we accept practices that equate entire teams with a few players who do Ramadan?

This has a name, assignment, in other words imposing on non-Muslim players, and even on an entire society, a practice resulting from religious requirements.

Isn't there a problem with the freedom of conscience of others, overturning the accusation half-word of discrimination?

Wouldn't that be what would in fact be really discriminatory?

Who says freedoms also says common duties, which we erase a little easily behind a notion of tolerance, which means nothing here.

Guylain Chevrier

The coach of OGC Nice, Didier Digard, presented as wanting in this area to

"change mentalities"

, if he explains that "we

are in a secular country, not in a Muslim country."

and "that you have to accept the country where you live",

also says taking the example of England,

"it must be admitted, they are more open than us on the subject and it has always been like That.

It would be nice for France to do it…

” The French international, Lucas Digne, also lamented on Instagram, what he calls

“the delay that France has in this area”

.

It must be said that the Premier League and the Bundesliga have chosen to interrupt the meetings for breaking the fast.

England and Germany would therefore be more “open”?

Shouldn't there be a booster shot?

These two countries are based on multiculturalism, the principle that everyone has their own community, and where there is little or no mixing.

Behind community walls, individuals lose their rights confiscated by clan logic, who are no longer citizens held hostage by the devastating effects of clientelism.

Is it vis-à-vis this that we are “late”?

David Cameron, former English Prime Minister, and Angela Merkel, former Chancellor of Germany, had each in their time underlined the failure of multiculturalism in their country,

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In its press release, the FFF specifies: "

the Federation and its decentralized bodies, as bodies responsible for a public service mission delegated by the State, defend the fundamental values ​​of the French Republic and must implement the means making it possible to prevent any discrimination or attack on the dignity of a person, in particular because of (…) his political and religious convictions

".

Yes, she is so right!

Because it is the secular Republic that is ahead in terms of democratic modernity, and remains more open than any other system.

Because to see only equal individuals and not each according to his difference, it does not make any difference in treatment with regard to a law which is the same for all.

"Secular" means that our social contract is based on common laws that go beyond religions or not, the singularities specific to everyone, to guarantee a common living environment, which is based on fundamental freedoms, which protects the autonomy of the person.

Who says freedoms also says common duties, which we erase a little easily behind a notion of tolerance which means nothing here.

Historically, thanks to the Republic, we have been able to overcome many differences, community, religious, family logics, that of the old orders, nobility, clergy, to make a people of citizens, a nation.

Guylain Chevrier

Historically, thanks to the Republic, we have been able to overcome many differences, community, village, religious, family, burdensome logics, that of the old orders, nobility, clergy, third estate, which have also existed for centuries, to make a people of citizens, a nation.

Let us therefore return to the only real freedom for the people, to be the source of political power in our institutions, a sovereign body politic of citizens united by their rights, of men capable of writing their history by their common will.

The current political crisis in no way calls into question the foundations of this truth, and the character of collective ownership of these rights, part of their future of which remains to be written.

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The motto of the Republic liberty, equality, fraternity takes on its full meaning here: if we are free it is because we are equal, and thus, it is easy for us to fraternize.

What better !

This is what is fundamentally opposed to this vision of a society that would only be an addition of communities, of differences.

It is clear that this neutrality in the stadiums has the deep meaning, that of freedom for all.

Source: lefigaro

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