After a younger Muslim girl’s expulsion from a Quebec soccer tournament, five other teams too walked out of it.
The girl, Asi was asked to move out because she was in her traditional hijab.
League’s spokesperson Lyes Arfa stated that the ban on hijabs is to protect children from being accidentally strangled, which is quite a possibility during the match.
The confederation had already made the organizers aware of the rule, which prohibits the wearing of veil or any other religious item.
Asi’s team was aware of the rule, but didn’t anticipated it’s imposition. So when it was, many players and adults were outraged.
Well, I guess, it was not an issue to be offended at. After all, the league had already announced its norms and so it’s sheer foolishness on the part of the players of not heeding to it. Anyhow, if a person is living in some other country then it becomes obligatory on the part of the person to go according to the country’s rules and regulations and this applies for games as well.
