Posted on 01/29/2022 2:32:53 AM PST by Cronos
The French Senate has voted in favour of banning the wearing of hijabs in sports competitions, arguing that neutrality is a requirement on the field of play.
The French upper legislative house voted late on Tuesday in favour of amending a proposed law stipulating that the wearing “of conspicuous religious symbols is prohibited” to take part in events and competitions organised by sports federations.
In their text, senators clearly said the amendment aims at banning “the wearing of the veil in sports competitions”. They added that headscarves can put at risk the safety of athletes wearing them when they practise their discipline.
The amendment, proposed by the right-wing group Les Republicains and opposed by the French government, was adopted with 160 votes in favour and 143 against. A commission composed of members from the Senate and the lower house should now gather to find a compromise on the text before it is published, meaning the amendment can still be erased.
It is unclear whether the ban would be implemented for the 2024 Paris Olympics. The Olympic organising committee did not immediately answer a request for comment.
The vote came a year after legislators in the French Parliament’s lower house approved a bill to strengthen oversight of mosques, schools and sports clubs in a bid to safeguard France from “radical Islamists” and to promote “respect for French values” – one of President Emmanuel Macron’s landmark projects.
France has been hit by several attacks in recent years. But critics also see the law as a political ploy to lure the right wing to Macron’s centrist party ahead of this year’s presidential election.
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In contrast -- https://www.mylondon.news/news/south-london-news/stranger-asked-woman-wearing-hijab-22852362 -- in the UK, they thing it is racist to ask why someone is wearing a hijab
And in the US -- https://www.indy100.com/viral/woman-hijab-wedding-reddit-debate - a butthurt woman relates how a "friend" asked her to remove her hijab for the friends wedding as it makes the friend's future in-laws uncomfortable
Even for swimming?
Banning women's religious garb is nothing new for the French they have been doing it since the late 1700’s off and on.
“....A community of 16 Carmelite nuns from Compiègne, Mother Teresa of St Augustine and Companions, were executed on 17 July 1794 during the French Revolution.
The Sisters had refused to comply with the Civil Constitution of the Clergy, a law passed in 1790, which subordinated the Catholic Church to the revolutionary government, confiscated all Church land and banned religious orders. The Carmelites of Compiègne resisted the suppression of their monastery and so were arrested in June 1794 and imprisoned at the former Visitation convent of Compiègne, where they offered themselves daily for the peace of France and the Church. On 17 July they were tried in Paris, convicted of treason and sentenced to death by guillotine. Providentially, they were wearing their outlawed religious habits, since their only secular clothes were being washed on the day of the trial.
The Sisters were then transported in tumbrels among a group of 40 condemned prisoners to the place of execution at the Place du Trône, Paris...........”
https://www.thicketpriorycarmel.org/blessed-martyrs-of-compiegne
They’ll just quit like they did at the Olympic Games when it was an issue......
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