Posted on 10/21/2016 4:30:50 PM PDT by ameribbean expat
The hijab has often split opinion in the sporting world, but the Russian women’s mini-football (futsal) team have fully embraced the traditional Muslim garment – by wearing it during a friendly tour of Iran, where it is compulsory for women.
“Our girls say that they are already used to [wearing the hijab],” says Aleksandr Kochetkov, executive director of the futsal club Dina. “Russia’s women’s mini-football team played two friendly matches in Iran, and both teams had to play in hijabs.”
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They’re probably used to wearing babushkas!
When in Rome, do as the Romans.
When in Iran, do as the Iranians?
When in Iran, beat up your wife, and throw her from the roof, and stone her to death, and blame her for getting raped, and get away with anything you do to her.
Before long it will be a fashion statement. Just wait, some goofy assed “celebrity” will wear this garb and it will be a hit.
I somewhat understand Putin’s interest in balancing the shia / sunni split in the ME. But he goes too far with Iran and I have yet to read a cogent analysis as to why.
No men under the hijabs?
I think you're thinking "burkas"? A hijab is a head covering, or veil.
And that goofy ass will have a factory full of slaves, somewhere in the great muzzlim empire, cranking these out so American women can take part in the latest fashion for $200 a shot.
Hijab is not a clothing description, its a angry husband description.
Hijab, hicross, hiuppercut...
So the Russians also support slavery of women instead of defend women.
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