The French Bill would forbid her scarf in sports; Amnesty International says it’s a discriminatory

• An account for the prohibition of all “seemingly religious” clothing and symbols, including scarves, will be discussed during the competition from Tuesdays at the French Parliament’s Upper House.
• Amnesty International calls for French legislators to reject the bill, saying that it would be discriminatory.
• The lower house of the French Parliament will have the last word. In order to go there, the law of the law should coalition forces that they usually do not cooperate.

Amnesty International invites French legislators to reject the law this week, which would ban scarfs in all sports competitions.

The proposal of the Law is supported by the Senators of the Right and will be discussed from Tuesdays at Gornji Home French parliament. His goal is to forbid all the “seemingly religious” clothes and symbols during the competition. Amnesty International says that move would be discriminating.

The vote is likely to supplement a long -term discussion of secularism – still unstable more than a century after the 1905 law on the separation of the Church and the state that established it as the principle of the French Republic.

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So far, the sports federations are free to decide whether or not to allow scarves, with the two most powerful sports, football and rugby in the country, deciding to ban them.

The proposal of the law is at an early stage, and this week’s voice indicates the beginning of a long legislative process with an uncertain outcome. Even if the senators vote in favor, the future of the law will remain unclear because the lower home has the last word.

For passing, the bill should coalition forces that usually do not cooperate in a deeply divided lower house.

Calls Amnesty International come after French Sprinter Soukamba Sylla She said last summer forbidden at the opening ceremony at the Paris Olympics because he wears a hijab. In the end, she was allowed to participate, wearing a cap to cover her hair.

France implements the strict principle of “laïcité”, slightly translated as “secularism”. At the Games, the president of the French Olympic Committee said that his Olympians are related to secular principles applied to the public sector workers in the country, which include a ban on hijab and other religious signs.

“At the Paris Olympics, a French ban on French athletes carrying wipes to compete at games, has attracted international anger,” said Anna Błuś, international researcher Amnesty -Auo her native justice.

“Just six months, the French authorities not only double the discriminatory ban on hijab, but they try to expand it to all sports.”

Experts he appointed UN Human Rights Council They have previously criticized the decision of French football and basketball federations to exclude players who carry the hijab, and the decision of the French government to prevent her athletes to carry scarves to represent the country at Paris games.

Amnesty International said the account is in reality the goals Muslim women And girls exclude them from sports competitions if they wear a headscarf or other religious clothes.

“Laïcité … which is theoretically embedded in the French Constitution to protect everyone’s religious freedom, it was often used as an excuse to block the Muslim approach to public spaces in France,” said Amnesty International.

“Over a few years, the French authorities have passed the laws and policies to regulate Muslim clothing for women and girls, in discriminatory ways. The Sports Federation followed the suit, imposing bans of hijab in several sports.”

Two years ago, the highest administrative court in France said that the country’s Federation was the right to ban scarf in competitions, although this measure could limit freedom of expression.

Having the principle of religious neutrality recessed in the Constitution, the Earth Football Federation also does not facilitate things to international players who want to refrain from drinking or dawn to sunset during Ramadan, the Islamic Holy Moon.

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Law supporters quote growing attacks on secularism in sports, claiming that its fundamental values ​​are based on the principle of universality. In order to protect the sports division from any controversial conflict, they say, it is necessary to implement the principle of neutrality in order to ensure that political, religious or racial demonstrations or propaganda cannot be promoted.

The law also states that the use of a part of a sports facility as a place for worship would be a misuse of its purpose and prohibits carrying religious clothing, such as Burkini, in public pools.

“By putting a scarf on a spectrum” attacks on secularism “, which move from” permission “to” terrorism “, this legislation would, if adopted, encourage racism and amplifier a growing hostile environment that Muslims face in France”, said Amnesty International.