Hijab Ends Football Dream

Props to Maniac Muslim for finding this:

Last week in Canada, a young Muslim girl - Asmahan Mansour (aka Asi) - was ejected from a Quebec summer football tournament for wearing a hijab.

Here's the full story:

Five young teams from across Canada walked out of a Quebec soccer tournament Sunday because a young Muslim girl was ejected for wearing a hijab.
Calling the rule banning the headscarf worn by Muslim women racist, four other teams followed Asmahan Mansour's team, the Nepean Selects from Ottawa, after she was thrown out for running afoul of a Quebec Soccer Association rule.

"The referee was staring and pointing. 'She can't play,'" said Asmahan, Asi to her friends. "I was like why? Why can't I play?"
Because of a safety rule, league spokesman Lyes Arfa said. He pointed out that the referee is Muslim himself, and that the ban on hijabs is to protect children from being accidentally strangled.
"We have to protect the players on the field, and that's the main point. It's not against the Muslims."
And the league had told organizers about the rule — "The wearing of the Islamic veil or any other religious item is not permitted" — before the game.
Asi's team was aware of the rule, but didn't expect it would be enforced.
So when it was, many players and adults were outraged.

Girls backed up teammate
"I automatically went back to the referee: 'Are you sure this is what you wanna do?'" said Louis Maneiro, the Selects' head coach. When nothing changed, he said, "I just decided that there's no way that I would allow our team to continue, and the girls backed up Asi very strongly."
Asi's teammates supported the move. "I felt disgraced, I was crushed, I couldn't see Asi like that," said Lisa Furano.
"It's just a piece of material, it can't do any harm," added Alicia Stainton.
The Selects left the tournament in good spirits. But they say they won't come back until the rule changes.

There have been other occasions of things like this happening in Canada. For example, a bearded Sikh boxer is challenging the Canadian Amateur Boxing Association who say that beards are "banned for medical reasons". (Source: CBC News)

?!

Now I may not be a doctor (although my parents would like me to be), but how the hell is a beard dangerous?! And a Hijab?!!!!!!

I know some hijabis may be scary, but to say that the hijab is, well that's just absurd.

It's not like the hijab will grab people by their throat while they are running past Asi - unless it's one of those mutant hijabs. My local hijab shop sells them (don't ask how I know....)

But how long till these problems come over to the UK?

Heck they already are

I mean after Jack Straw's crazy comments about the niqab (full veil) there has been alot of tension in many areas, but how long till the cheap tabloids start calling for a ban on the hijab? or on the beard?


Some of this has already started, and the marching Islamophobes are coming ever nearer.

I wish more Muslims would try to stop the war of terror before it's too late for us to stop anything at all. If we politically empower ourselves, then we could end these attacks against our civil liberties, but obviously that's not gonna happen - because that requires working and striving for a good cause ...