{"id":10205,"date":"2023-10-02T23:39:05","date_gmt":"2023-10-02T23:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/france-hijab-ban-against-olympic-spirit-islamic-sports-body\/"},"modified":"2023-10-02T23:39:05","modified_gmt":"2023-10-02T23:39:05","slug":"france-hijab-ban-against-olympic-spirit-islamic-sports-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/france-hijab-ban-against-olympic-spirit-islamic-sports-body\/","title":{"rendered":"France hijab ban \u2018against Olympic spirit\u2019: Islamic sports body"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p>A group of sports federations from Muslim-majority countries said on Monday that France\u2019s move to bar its Olympic athletes from wearing the hijab would \u201csend a message of exclusion\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The 57-member Islamic Solidarity Sports Federation (ISSF), based in the Saudi capital Riyadh, voiced \u201cprofound concern\u201d over the French decision, which was taken in line with the country\u2019s strict rules on secularism.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media  sm:w-1\/2  w-full  media--right  media--embed  media--uneven\">\n<p>    <iframe class=\"nk-iframe\" onload=\"setInterval(()=&gt;{try{this.style.height=this.contentWindow.document.body.scrollHeight+'px';}catch{}}, 100)\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"height:400px;position:relative\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/card\/1778546\" sandbox=\"allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-popups allow-modals allow-forms\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>French Sports Minister Amelie Oudea-Castera said last month the French government was opposed to any display of religious symbols during sporting events.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat does that mean? That means a ban on any type of proselytising. That means absolute neutrality in public services,\u201d she told <em>France 3<\/em> television.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe France team will not wear the headscarf.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The ISSF said in its statement on Monday that the hijab was \u201can aspect of many Muslim women\u2019s identity and should be respected\u201d, adding that the French ban could prevent some French Muslim athletes from competing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Olympics have historically celebrated diversity, unity and athletic excellence,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy implementing a hijab ban for their athletes, a host would send a message of exclusion, intolerance and discrimination that goes against the Olympic spirit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The statement urged French authorities \u201cto reconsider this ban\u201d and called for \u201cmeaningful engagement with the Muslim sports community in France.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The ISSF was founded in 1985 to serve members of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, based in the Saudi city of Jeddah, \u201cin all aspects of sports activities\u201d, according to its website.<\/p>\n<p>It has organised five editions of the Islamic Solidarity Games, most recently last year in Turkiye.<\/p>\n<p>The UN human rights office has not addressed France\u2019s hijab ban for its athletes directly, but a spokeswoman <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"link--external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/09\/26\/europe\/un-hijab-olympics-intl\/index.html\">said<\/a> last week that \u201cno one should impose on a woman what she needs to wear or not wear.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of sports federations from Muslim-majority countries said on Monday that France\u2019s move to bar its Olympic athletes from wearing the hijab would \u201csend a message of exclusion\u201d. The 57-member Islamic Solidarity Sports Federation (ISSF), based in the Saudi capital Riyadh, voiced \u201cprofound concern\u201d over the French decision, which was taken in line with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10206,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.dawn.com\/large\/2023\/10\/02173522d1d8ec9.jpg?r=173536","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[192],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islamabad-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}