Basketball rules changed to allow players to wear hijabs

Allah and Big Mo are always watching.

Don't be ignorant, Islam is the most feminist religion. Did Islam burn witches?

This is relative. In Saudi Arabia and other Islamic countries no women should not be free to do and wear whatever they please.

The Muslims in those countries have chosen Islamic law.

It's like China saying "British citizens should be free to eat whatever animals they want, like cats and dogs" when this clearly is a relative statement.

Assume there are people in the UK that would like to eat cats and dogs but they are not allowed to because the UK law says they can't.

It's really very simple when you snap out of your own biased viewpoint.

It prevents sex before marriage, affairs, one night stands and many other things.

I'm not getting this list am I?

Feminism is about giving women a choice- that includes the choice to or to not wear a hijab.

Women don't have the choice to wear the hijab precisely. Female teams from Gulf countries were not allowed by their government to compete because they couldn't wear a hijab.

Allowing the hijab in sport competitions is just pandering to these barbarians -- again.

The other solution would have been to continue to disallow female athletes on a competitive level, just to make a point to the non-athlete authorities. No one wins.

But they weren't being disallowed. They were choosing to not compete. It is a subtle but important distinction.

I am being disallowed from competing in the 400m for Team GB because the athletic authorities have imposed a qualifying time that I cannot achieve without changing my lifestyle. Therefore I demand that they lower this qualifying time in order not to unfairly disadvantage me.

I know, "disallow" is the wrong word

It is technically the athlete's choice to wear the hijab. But if she is from a country where hijab is compulsory/not wearing hijab is heavily frowned upon, then the distinction is moot.

So sporting authorities should be beholden to the impositions of authoritarian regimes?

The IOC, FIFA and other organisations expressly forbid the display of political symbols or statements. Should this rule be relaxed for any country demanding that its athletes display such things?

Would you support their inclusion if the Israeli government insisted that their athletes had "Occupy Gaza" on their shirts?

Loving the irony of a Muslimah who claims that Muslimahs should be free to wear what they want claiming that other Muslimahs should not be free to wear what they want.

But no double standards though.
If you claim that Muslimahs should be free to choose whether to wear the hijab or not, this applies everywhere.

How does it feel to have to deal with somebody who gives you useless replies?

You're misunderstanding me as per usual. In Saudi Arabia men and women should not be free to dress as they please because the law forbids it.

In the UK men and women are free and should be free to dress as they please because the law allows it. So no it is not ironic at all that I am saying that. This discussion turned into a Saudi Arabia rights for women argument so my answer was with respect to that country.

In the UK of course women are free to dress as they please and they should be free to do so because that is what brits have subscribed to.

Women in Saudia Arabia are not free to wear what they want, but they should be.

Why should they? Please explain.

Why should they? Please explain.

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/05/04/sport/basketball-hijab-fiba/

https://www.channel4.com/news/basketball-allows-religious-headgear-to-be-worn-in-games

Not personally a fan of the burka, but fine with the hijab in terms of religious headwear. I think this is good news for inclusion and diversity. I don't see how people can complain about hijabs restricting a women's freedom but then not be in support of something like this which promotes Muslim woman going out, being independent and developing an interest in sport. Surprised it took until now for the rule change tbh.