Female Chess Players Required To Wear Hijabs

I'm a fan of the game of chess and this story caught my eye. The FIDE World Chess Championship is being held in Tehran, Iran next year. Apparently the female players are being asked to wear hijabs; this has angered some of them to the point that they are threatening to boycotting the tournament. Many feel that FIDE, the international chess federation, is not taking a stand against sexual discrimination. However, they have been told to respect "cultural differences" and comply with the hijab requirement.

-Nazi Paikidze, US women's champion

I'm a believer in individual liberty and think that this requirement is both ridiculous and humiliating for the players. FIDE has it totally backwards; it's society that should respect the cultural differences of the players (and everyone else), not the other way around.

Your thoughts?

 

I think as we are born individual we are entitled to be that!
Respect culture, but conformity is wrong!
But it's easy, Don't like, don't go!

I wonder why, these people want to to behave a certain way in their country, but seem to disrespect other countries by ignoring their own rules?
But, I think in wearing and agreeing to wear this clothing, is agreeing with he oppression of women in these countries, and shouldn't be happening in the world today!

Here is the story

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/10/01/us-chess-champion-id-rather-sacrifice-my-career-than-be-forced-to-wear-hijab.html
Politics and religion.... DO AS I SAY but NOT AS I DO!

 

I had met a couple of Iranian youngsters, and the guys were quite interested in western culture, rock music and they had western musical instruments for playing it in their house. The girls were quite fashionable and I did not see them wearing Hijab.

My impression is that Iranians, especially the youth are quite funloving, and are interested in many aspects of western culture. The issue probably is the hardline attitude of the theocratic government over there. However there seems to be a totally different attitude among segments of its youth population.

It is not a total talibanised place as some people picturise it as. Imho, keeping Iran isolated probably is what is aiding the theocratic government to hold on for so long as they use this for propaganda purposes to project their country and culture as being under threat.

 

Those people in Iran do not make their own rules of how to behave. I think a lot of them would find it very bearable that foreign female competitors would not wear a hijab.

On the other hand: If it would not be opression from the iranian fashion police and if wearing a hijab does not take away from ones focus or concentration during the game why not at least try to respect another culture's customs. But unfortunately in this particular case it is not just a cultural phenomenom, it is an obligation from the ones in charge.

When I was on a school trip to Istanbul we went to several mosques and all my female class mates all wore (without asking from locals) a headscarf on the mosques terrain. They got compliments and smiles from several muslim women, just for respecting their customs. So yeah, just saying sometimes it is a matter of give and take and it is not so bad.

 

I bow to that Asmo, you are right!

 

That's interesting because from what I know, hijab's are banned in Turkey as per the Turkish constitution though the likes of Erdogan have challenged these laws at times verbally.

 

I don't play chess or know anything about the World Chess Championship but would an Iranian woman (or any woman who wears a hijab) be forced to remove their hijab if they were playing chess in some other country?

 

Maybe France, which in my opinion would be equally wrong.