[brucedickinson]

"Worse, Iran has said that female chess grandmasters who refuse to wear the hijab while in Iran will face arrest!"

[Fresh Wind]

Chess is a sport? That’s news to me.

[soycd]

Anyone going to an islam country is an islam apologist.

[Olog-hai]

The 2017 World Chess Championships will be held in Tehran …

Why?

[plain talk]

The women need to band together and boycott. But I wonder why a world championship would be played in Iran in the first place.

[super7man]

So if it is held in Brazil in the future will all women have to wear thong bikinis?

[Nateman]

The first mistake was even holding it in Iran. Why help those 7th century throwbacks pretend they belong in the modern world?

[Olog-hai]

PS. Paikidze looks better as a brunette.

[Gadsden1st]

“Face” Arrest!

I see what you did there!

[Artemis Webb]

I would let her take my bishop.

[rod1]

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.

[headstamp 2]

What idiot decided to hold the tourney in one of the most oppressive places on earth?

North Korea next year?

[TruthWillWin]

When Muslims in a country are minorities they demand equal rights. In countries where Muslim are the majority there are no minority rights.

[PGalt]

“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.

[Bernard]

Maybe they should move the tournament to a less controversial place, like North Carolina.

[trebb]

Has anyone told Obama and Hillary?????

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

I’ve started to put hijabs in the Planet of the Apes scenario. So as not to offend the apes, all women who visit the ape areas are required to wear gorilla masks and walk on all fours. And, if a male ape wants to mate with them, they must comply. To do otherwise is “apephobic” (Pithecophobia) and “racist” (specieist).

[MichaelCorleone]

Hey femininazi’s and lesbians: this is your future if you insist on ‘making history by electing the first woman president’.

I strongly suggest you stop fooling yourselves; for a couple of months anyway.

[Stosh]

So what happens if they show up in a hajib (and nothing else)?

[Gay State Conservative]

My first visit to the Arabian Peninsula (the UAE) was a bit of a shock.A good percentage of the men wear those long white robes with the black thing-a-ma-jig on the head and most of the women wore those black burlap sacks.With the women,some had it so you could see their entire face,some had everything hidden except the eyes and some had everything concealed.How *they* could see I don't know.

[stockpirate]

Why would they have it in Iran to begin with.

Corrupt is why.