[Newsbot]

Title: Quebec soccer ref in hijab thrown off pitch
Category: Sports
Posted By: Hyack
Date: 2011-06-21 14:41:36
Canadian

[CrazyNewfie]

This makes me sick. I'm Usually proud to be Canadian but when I read things like this I really wonder...;(

[desertdude]

If the Lac St. Louis Regional Soccer Association strictly follows FIFA's rules then I don't see a problem, but if it chooses to enforce rules selectively to individuals then I do.

But the FIFA ruling is only for players and not ref's and officials, so most probably just Quebec being its french self and trying to support the motherland with the burqa ban.

http://www.fifa.com/mm/document/affeder ... 0_11_e.pdf

[CrazyNewfie]

@desertdude
That's what I thought, reading the article, it sounds like the ban is for players not refs: First the rule "Rule 4 set out by FIFA, the international soccer governing body, which prohibits religious statements in team uniforms." Then this statement:
"The situation is clear," the statement reads. "Wearing a hijab is not allowed on Quebec's soccer fields just as necklaces, earrings, rings are prohibited, and we will follow the rule until FIFA says otherwise."

Sounds like they are reading it to suit there own beliefs, it clearly says players with no mention of refs.
This is discrimination no doubt about it.

[Proculation]

Don't forget Quebec as always flirted with ultra-nationalism and even fascism in the past.