Soccer playing Muslim girl - or should one say Muslim girl who plays soccer? - it's hard to know what's appropriate - anyway, aforementioned so forth etcetera in Quebec was not allowed to take the field, mount the pitch - now, that's crude - while wearing hijab, sacramental scarf like artifact that some Muslims [the rules are vague here, open to interpretation and so variously interpreted] insist or demand or ask or prevail upon or strongly suggest although it's entirely up to you, beloved, their womenfolk wear when out in public to keep from provoking sexual unrest among the unclean etceteras [I'm not sure what kind of deviants they attract to these soccer games, but rules are rules I guess, even when they're not]. League officials claim the prohibition was for safety reasons - a scarf getting caught in a scrunchy no doubt and all hell breaking loose. No one really believed that explanation, but officials refused to budge [paradoxically revealing a potentially unclean tendency lurking in their dark thoughts thusly demonstrating the precarious state the poor girl's purity could have been subject to - how many coils the snake does have]. So girl pleaded case to FIFA, the international governing agency for soccer [ya know it's called football ya bloody pagan!] and they replied, ironically enough, that rules are rules and there'll be no scarf wearing on any hallowed grounds whereof soccer [football] players are conjoined for the purposes of sport [you see, that
is ironic - so many beliefs to be defended!].
Now, some will cry 'Islamaphobia!' and others will cry something else and I'm not, at this moment anyway, fool enough to try the ramparts of such a ludicrously arrayed fortress of rival prejudices and superstitions and cultural assumptions - I'm sure all are most righteous servants to their various gods and good luck with that. Still, I'm curious, and this is a small point not meant to indicate which side of the argument I find least offensive/annoying/moronic - but, how can playing a sport,
in public,
how can such an activity be logically reconciled with the intent and purposes of the hijab? I know that
haditha [do I have to put an article in front of that? don't know, churl] suggests to some believers that females of the age of menstruation [jeez, how many besotted bastards have been utterly freaked out by that little biological bit of housekeeping?] [and now it turns out the girl is only 11 so why is she even wearing a hijab? It's spiritual grandstanding, that's what it is I tells ya!] who do not cover themselves appropriately will not find favour with Allah and therefore I understand why the girl's desire to wear it should within a certain context be taken seriously - but that does nothing to improve the logic underlying her complaint. No? Yes. No. No? Yes, but -
- 'Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
- The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
- Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
- The frumious Bandersnatch!'
