"Worse, Iran has said that female chess grandmasters who refuse to wear the hijab while in Iran will face arrest!"
Posted on 10/02/2016 7:06:47 AM PDT by brucedickinson
The 2017 World Chess Championships will be held in Tehran, and Iran has told Fide (the chess governing body) that all female participants must wear a hijab.
Fide’s Commission for Women’s Chess submitted to Iran’s demand without question, instructing all participants to respect “cultural differences” and follow the rules.
Needless to say, the Grandmasters are outraged. Many have flat out refused to attend the 64-player tournament scheduled for February 2017.
“This violates all what sports means,” argues Woman Grandmaster (WGM) Carla Heredia. “Sports should be free of discrimination by sex, religion, and sexual orientation.”
Chairwoman Susan Polgar of Fide’s Commission for Women’s
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"Worse, Iran has said that female chess grandmasters who refuse to wear the hijab while in Iran will face arrest!"
Chess is a sport? That’s news to me.
Anyone going to an islam country is an islam apologist.
The 2017 World Chess Championships will be held in Tehran …Why?
The women need to band together and boycott. But I wonder why a world championship would be played in Iran in the first place.
The first mistake was even holding it in Iran. Why help those 7th century throwbacks pretend they belong in the modern world?
They make a streamlined "sports hijab" for evil whores on the go.
PS. Paikidze looks better as a brunette.
It's a biathlon event. You ski downhill, then you make a move.
Oh please make it so!
“Face” Arrest!
I see what you did there!
I would let her take my bishop.
So has Hillary weighted in on this? Has Human Abedin been asked to comment as well? It would be good to get them on the record.
What idiot decided to hold the tourney in one of the most oppressive places on earth?
North Korea next year?
I don't know what they're complaining about- it's not like they don't have choices.
When Muslims in a country are minorities they demand equal rights. In countries where Muslim are the majority there are no minority rights.
“Sports should be free of discrimination by sex, religion, and sexual orientation.”
LOL!
Chess = war by other means
Sports = war by other means
Politics = war by other means
War = force
When the men on the chessboard
Get up and tell you where to go
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WANNqr-vcx0
Shoulda, coulda, woulda.
Maybe they should move the tournament to a less controversial place, like North Carolina.
Has anyone told Obama and Hillary?????
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