[ April 17, 2024 ]
This is Obama’s doing.
It’s grotesque. Not only because forcing non-Muslim women to wear Islamic garb is an outrage, but because of Iran’s human rights record, and in particular, its brutal treatment of women, which is monstrous.
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“Female Chess Players Told To Wear Hijab at Championship In Iran,” By Edwin Mora, Breitbart, September 30, 2016:
The world’s top female chess players are being forced to wear a hijab at next year’s world championship because state sponsor of terrorism Iran has been selected to host the event.
Some of the players have reacted with dismay. Women in the Islamic Republic are required by law to wear a hijab in public. Failure to do so results in arrest, a fine or public admonishment.
Players have accused the World Chess Federation, known by its French acronym FIDE, of “turning a blind eye to sexual discrimination” by awarding the women’s championship to Iran.
Nazi Paikidze, the U.S. women’s chess champion, declared:
It is absolutely unacceptable to host one of the most important women’s tournaments in a venue where, to this day, women are forced to cover up with a hijab.
I understand and respect cultural differences. But, failing to comply can lead to imprisonment and women’s rights are being severely restricted in general. It does not feel safe for women from around the world to play here…If the situation remains unchanged, I will most certainly not participate in this event.
FIDE has defended its selection of Iran to host the women’s championship, urging participants to respect “cultural differences” and accept Iran’s hijab law.
The Telegraph reports:
Within hours of Iran being revealed as its host country, the prestigious event was plunged into crisis as it emerged players taking part face arrest if they don’t cover up.
In response, Grandmasters lined up to say they would boycott the 64-player knock-out and accused the game’s scandal-hit governing body [FIDE] of failing to stand up for women’s rights.
Daily Mail adds:
Top women chess players are threatening to boycott the world championship in Iran because they will be forced to wear hijabs.
Female Grandmasters will risk arrest if they do not cover up to compete in the strict Middle Eastern country due to host the knock-out tournament next year.
In defending the World Chess Federation’s choice of venue, Susan Polgar, the American Grandmaster who chairs FIDE’s Commission for Women’s Chess said:
I have traveled to nearly 60 countries. When I visited different places with different cultures, I like to show my respect by dressing up in their traditional style of clothing. No one asked me to do it. I just do it out of respect.
I personally would have no issues with wearing a headscarf [hijab] as long as it is the same to all players.
Iran, where hijabs for women have been mandated by law since the Islamic Revolution of 1979, is unfriendly to women’s issues. The country has a “morality police” that is charged with enforcing the hijab.
“Women in Iran are subject to pervasive discrimination both in law and practice, including in areas concerning marriage, divorce, child custody, freedom of movement, employment, and access to political office,” reported human rights watchdog Amnesty International in March.
The U.S. Department of State has warned against traveling to the Islamic Republic, noting that American citizens risk being unjustly imprisoned or taken captive because of their nationality.
“[FIDE] held a smaller Grand Prix event in Iran earlier this year where female players were required to wear the hijab,” reports The Telegraph, adding that “several players were left angry about having to use the scarf.”
Nevertheless, FIDE’s Polgar said:
I believe the organizers provided beautiful choices for past participants of Women’s Grand Prix.
I cannot speak on behalf of others but from my personal conversations with various players in the past year, they had no real issues with it.
If any player has a problem with it, she can and should voice her opinion to the Commission for Women’s Chess or FIDE and we can address it in our next meeting.
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69 Comments
D
7 years ago
Well snowflakes. Don’t go. Simple.
7 years ago
Reply to
puhiawa
agreed, don’t go – boycott. Having said that -why call Christian women, Jewish women, Hindu women, non-believing women – “snowflakes” because they don’t want to be chatteled into islam? They do not deserve the pejorative and only a rabid follower of the pedophile “prophet” would call them that.
7 years ago
Reply to
puhiawa
Not a bad idea, really. None of them should go. Not a single one. What if they held a world class chess event and nobody showed up? An embarrassed Iran might be forced to join the 21st century.
7 years ago
they all should boycott the championship. BOYCOTT. The Federation was
wrong and evil to hold it in Iran where even non-moslime women are
forced, under threat of imprisonment, torture and even death for not
wearing the hijab. It is way past time to take a stand. prayers,
always.
7 years ago
Reply to
dragonladyalso
At least they don’t require the clitorectomy to be publicly performed before the games start
7 years ago
Reply to
dragonladyalso
They are fools if they go and submit and they are fools if they go and refuse to submit. The only logical solution is to not go.
7 years ago
A major chess event for women held in Iran, one of the biggest women’s “prisons” on the planet. Regardless, I just lost my admiration of Susan Polgar. She is abysmally wrong on her stance on this. Instead of respecting the talent and dignity of women chess players she has relegated them to the back of the bus. What a great step forward!
What next? The male officials refusing to shake hands with the competing women?
Maybe dhimmi women intending playing in this event should fight back just a little. Don the stupid hijab while wearing a bikini?
7 years ago
Reply to
Mariaca
In mosques in which women are allowed to pray in the same prayer room as men at all, the women have to pray in the back of the mosque — because a woman walking in front of a man invalidates his prayers to allah and he must start all over again.
7 years ago
Don’t worry, all of this will be coming SOON to a neighborhood near you! School board meetings – hijab, city counsel meetings – hijab, swimming pools – full burka, halal only foods in our school and corporate lunchrooms, prayers breaks at factories everywhere, no pork sold anywhere and the list goes on and on. Ain’t that going to be fun?!
7 years ago
Reply to
Jimmy Dean
Not sure where you are but its an increasing “trend” in UK, allowed by our soft leaders.
7 years ago
Reply to
Jimmy Dean
I think I will start a prayer rug franchise manufacturing prayer rugs.
7 years ago
Who in his/her right mind would travel to an Islamic country?
7 years ago
Next year it will be in Saudi Arabia, After a mandatory FGM , in order to play , the winners get to join a harem and are never seen again.
7 years ago
Reply to
762x51FMJ
All females will be inspected and subject to genital mutilation to conform with local custom.
7 years ago
Reply to
tatka150
It is apparent to everyone but our stupid leaders, that there are problems, that ignoring and creatively stupid descriptions will not cure.
7 years ago
Reply to
Steve
islam is afraid of women,which is why they are suppressed, mutilated and murdered. It is a very cowardly society that evolves the way islam has, not really surprising as it attracts the stupid at best.
7 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
The men CAN NOT satisfy a normal woman (probably because of inbreeding) so they mutilate her so she doesn’t really enjoy sex. Then they want 72 virgins because they are dead also…so no problem there. But those virgins expect to be satisfied and there will be no escape for the pussy men.
7 years ago
Reply to
Metatrona
The fact is, they will get 72 vermin, who will be theirs for eternity, or, more righteously, they will belong to the 72 vermin.
7 years ago
Why would they even contemplate holding it there?
7 years ago
I agree. Plus, this wouldn’t be happening if it hadn’t been for the idiot revolutionaries. Iran had it great. What the hell was their problem?!
7 years ago
Reply to
Chantell Snyder
I happened to be chatting to a perfectly nice, reasonable Persian gentleman, whilst leafletting in city for Brexit, he said the Shah was a good guy, a damn site better than these nuts who run the place now.
7 years ago
Reply to
Chantell Snyder
Question never raised, not much anyone except the Persians can do about it except vote the mullahs out sometime. I dont know much about the place, except i would not like to live or visit it, nor any other place, or state like it.
7 years ago
Reply to
Generalpatern
From what I heard, it sounded like the extremists jus thought he wasn’t Muslim enough. All the Shah wanted was for them to be normal. But in their mind, it seems like being normal is amoral.
7 years ago
If france is involved, back tracking, capitulation, surrender are all involved. the Spanish have the running of the bulls, the french have the scattering of chickens. What fool would stage an international event in a country know to be run by idiots, bigots and muslims?
7 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
You can hardly blame the French. The one defending it, who presumably was also part of suggesting and organizing it, is Susan Polgar, the AMERICAN Grandmaster.
7 years ago
It’s degrading.
7 years ago
Same people that screwed Bobby Fischer in 1975 and took away his title after Bobby wanted the first player to 10 wins declared the next World Championship. FIDE said NO and Bobby walked, never played again until 1992, when of course the US Dept. of State declared Bobby a criminal for playing chess in…gasp…Serbia.
Freedom and Liberty are paramount IN ALL HUMAN ACTIVITIES. Otherwise, you have assholes causing problems.
7 years ago
Reply to
Jack Lee ✓ᵀᴿᵁᴹᴾ
Bobby Fischer became a somewhat crazy antisemite later in life. I had thought Fischer’s problems came when he decided to play in Cuba.
7 years ago
Reply to
IzlamIsTyranny
The POS booby fischer also CELEBRATED 9/11.
Bobby Fischer speaks out to applaud Trade Centre attacks
7 years ago
Reply to
SCREW SOCIALISM
I never knew that. He really went off the deep end didn’t he? He also requested his name be removed from the Encyclopedia Judaica — I hope they obliged him.
7 years ago
No, it will be DISCUSSED OPENLY where the archaic and sexist practices of Iran will be held to international standards of gender equality!!!
7 years ago
Just Boycott the event. That will send the right message to Iran’s religious leaders. They will look bad. It might not make a lot of difference to those old misogynist bigots,
but we will have made a statement. Hold the tournament elsewhere, or abandon it. It is not the Olympics after all. Iran is getting more and more aggressive they need to be told where the boundaries are.
7 years ago
Reply to
conan_drum
The leader of the (for now) free world is providing sustenance to them too.
7 years ago
Reply to
Generalpatern
The Islamic Puppet States of America regularly funds islamic apartheid, terrorist states/entities like:
1. The PA
2. Pakistain
3. Iran
7 years ago
The choice of Iran as a place for a chess championship is ludicrous. This is just to try to show the world that since the sanctions have been lifted, they are fit to join the civilised world. Instead they are a country living in the 7th century and always will be. One false move from any of these contestants will result in imprisonment, never to be seen again. They should definitely refuse to take part in this contest unless the venue is changed.
7 years ago
I’m surprised they have chess tournaments in any muslum state:
http://www.inter-islam.org/Prohibitions/Chess.html
There is also an ahadith (Hadith Malik 554:1725-7): “He who played chess is like one who dyed his hand with the flesh and blood of swine.” I’m not sure if this ahadith is considered “authentic” or not.
7 years ago
Reply to
IzlamIsTyranny
where do they get their ideas from, hands dipped in blood, what a load of crapola.
7 years ago
In which muslum states is pi$$lam being reformed and in what ways?
7 years ago
Well obviously I would disagree with the requirement to wear a hijab.
We are all participants in a gigantic strategic game called jihad.
Little by little sharia creeps like a dark cloud across Europe
and its opponents are singled out and captured one by one.
This may be hate speech. No one has told me yet.
7 years ago
Just dont go, OK
7 years ago
Cancel the event, Muslim countries are not allowed as it goes against our freedom of rights.
7 years ago
Susan Polgar who thinks she is so intelligent has not considered the rights of other females who may be offended. Obviously she is chasing her crown and putting others at risk
7 years ago
After the fiasco involving the US hostages you only travel to a backward third world place like Iran at your own risk. Do they honestly believe that using a construction crane for a gallows to hang those convicted in a kangaroo court is a bona fide sign of an advanced society?
7 years ago
Iran is doing us a favour! More non-Muslims than before, may see monocultural Islam for the bigotry it is, because of propaganda gaffs like this one, no doubt the Ayatollah (laughably) thought it was a propaganda coup! We rely on Islam to regularly broadcast its intolerance on a world stage, whether it’s through jihad, or as in this case, the chess world. I hope it blows up and leads to a lot of coverage.
7 years ago
When I was training to become World Grandmaster I used to play whilst blindfolded.
Using only the guidance of the Holy One.
I never got anywhere but as a Muslin I fulfilled the will of the Prophet of Muslinia.
It was only later I discovered that the Religion of Muslin was a cruel hoax.
Now the sight of a chessboard fills me with dread.
Let this be a warning.
For there shall be a mighty wind from all the corners of the firmament etc….. etc. …
7 years ago
urging
participants to respect “cultural differences” and accept Iran’s hijab
law. – See more at:
http://b1ff5939f6.nxcli.net/2016/09/worlds-top-female-chess-players-forced-to-wear-hijab-at-championship-in-iran.html/#sthash.w8tk9EQt.dpuf
7 years ago
something amiss. 2nd. “respect” ..but does not apply to Iran.
7 years ago
All women players should boycott
7 years ago
The strongest female chess player in history by far is the Jewish Judit Polgár. Unfortunately she retired from competition in 2014. There is currently a strong Jewish presence among the world’s best players. Currently, the world number two, Levon Aronian from Armenia, is half-Jewish.
7 years ago
Reply to
s;vbkr0boc,klos;
There is no such thing as being half Jewish. You either are or You are not.
7 years ago
Boycott sounds like the way to go. Let them stay in the 7th century. Their refusal to assimilate with modernity is their problem. So much for the golden era of islam.
7 years ago
All I can say is if those who actually play this game and are disturbed,as they should be, by this very dangerous decision , then, refuse to attend. No players, no game.
7 years ago
ON another matter that I have just thought of. Muslims do not have 2 partner marriages. Only the men are present at the wedding as the brides are not allowed and the women have no rights after the wedding other than to serve their sex mad ‘husbands’.. I now understand how there can be a two state solution for Israel as Israel will not be invited to the wedding, and there will be no rights for them after the wedding. This is the way of Islam and this is what the EU and the Democrats seek as well. Subjugation by association or an agreement or a wedding. Israel will become Mrs. Islamic Gaza and everyone will live happily ever after???.
7 years ago
Ladies, do not go there as the next thing is that you will have to endure rape and mutilation as this is the way if Iran and its sex mad men.
D
7 years ago
Are they going to replace the cross on the head of the king with a crescent and put a hijab on the queen? What about the bishops?
7 years ago
Dia-sharia Law MANDATES that the hand job must be worn by women!
So says Moe HAM MAD.
7 years ago
This Polgar moron wears the hand job ‘out of respect’.
Good for her.
Does she respect other womens right to NOT wear it? No, of course not.
7 years ago
why would anyone in their right mind attend, where winng gets you jail or a whipping?
7 years ago
FIDE directors should be among the smartest and most sophisticated people on the earth, how is it they can ignore Iran’s daily rantings and threats to destroy America and Israel? This is exemplary of the soft left’s abdication of honesty and responsibility in the world. Shameful…
