Female chess players forced to wear hijab

Of course it is oppression, and it would be interesting to know if any brown envelopes were involved in holding the championships in Iran. And by "if any" I mean "how many".

Otoh, if they were held here, we'd expect competitors to abide by our laws.

very dangerous country to go to if you are human.

how will they know they're women? you could get a dodgy truck driver trying to enter it

they have religious police(thugs) who throw acid in peoples faces for not wearing the hajib.

The basiji lfc, a kindly bunch.

How do they play without pawn

What does the queen do in chess?

The queen (♕,♛) is the most powerful piece in the game of chess, able to move any number of squares vertically, horizontally, or diagonally

Surely they'll have to change the rules to, absurd having a woman with all that power

a lovely selection for the players to choose from..

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http://www.channel4.com/media/c4-news/images/22_niqabgraphic2.jpg

The twitterati who take great offence at any slightly sexist comment will no doubt have feck all to say on this .

Please ,gentlemen, this is not a black and white issue.

it's their move next

I would have thought it was quite unnerving to play someone whose face was entirely covered...

Still it their Chess Championship so their rules

I assume there are holes in their hijab...else how do they see the board

Nazi Paikidze

they should turn up dressed as nuns, problem sorted..and suspenders and high heels

the men could do so also, just as a gesture of solidarity of course.

James O’Brien commented on this early in his slot on LBC this morning.
He asked what's the difference between world leaders wearing headgear at a state funeral, and these female chess players wearing a hijab at a chess tournament in Iraq?
 
I hope someone phoned in to inform him that the world leaders attending a funeral wore the headgear out of respect. They weren't going to be arrested and flogged for not wearing it.
 
While the wearing of the hijab is compulsory in Iraq and non compliance might well result in the offending female being arrested and sentenced to be thrashed.
 
You'd have thought a BBC Newsnight presenter would have known that wouldn't you?    

It is Iran..actually

If this is the standard rule in their country that women wear this....what can one say

There are so many withdrawals I am not sure event will go ahead

I looked at the link, one women thought it was ok.

I would have thought a compromise could have been reached about this...but we don't live in those times.

I admit it does seem excessive to me. I think players need to see their opponents face.

the fkrs don't want anything negative which compromises their pro muslim agenda

you have to remember who is in charge of their religious dept

when you have them in all your editorial sections no one is going to raise anything anti muslim or they are out of a job

think of it

would you be brave enough to register a complaint or make contrary statements in meetings
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Iran threw out their president and Americans in 1979.....

They chose a very strict Muslim society.....this was their choice.

When in Muslim countries we must abide by their rules...it is called respect

Muslims in our societies must abide by OUR rules that is also respect

If we could all remember that it would be so much better.


Since female chess players are expected to abide by their societies rules...perhaps this was not a good choice for the World championship

if it causes non Muslim female chess players that much of a problem.

I have said earlier I think that seeing your opponents face is perhaps part of Chess.

My suggestion hold this tournament somewhere else.

It is Iran..actually

Yes I know, it was a typo.

ok

It was a daft place to choose for a tournament.

My advice is to the women is to keep away from the country.

Fair enough Dr Crippen

Although they have held chess tournaments there before, some in the women in that link said they were offered

a very nice choice of hijabs

I agree with Dr.

The women should stick together & say b0llox to your tournament , if you want
to hold them in barbaric countries & force us to wear medieval hear wear we will
not be taking part.

ok Ron

Muslims in our societies must abide by OUR rules that is also respect


Lot's of Muslims seem to have overlooked that one ebul 

Personally i wouldn't step foot inside a country under sharia

Why on earth would they be going anywhere near the sh1t hole?

Chess forbidden in Islam, rules Saudi mufti, but issue not black and white


After the 1979 Islamic revolution, playing chess was banned in public in Iran and declared haram, or forbidden

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/21/chess-forbidden-in-islam-rules-saudi-arabia-grand-mufti

ebul gerry; When in Muslim countries we must abide by their rules...it is called respect

Muslims in our societies must abide by OUR rules that is also respect.


what a wanchor you are gerald. their 'rules' kill unmarried mothers, gays, and apostates. no woman can walk around in anything but 'islamic' dress(shroud) or they will be nicked if they are lucky, or have acid thrown in their face if not. a woman cannot say; 'i am not a muslim, and do not want to wear a veil. she will die. islam does not do pluralism, in iran or anywhere else. birth control is not permitted, newspapers are banned, as is non-religious tv. the internet is blocked. books are dangerous to the owner. iran has executed 600 people so far this year. no appeals, no press coverage, no clemency, just secret murder for such 'crimes' as 'insulting the islamic state' or trying to set up a secular political party.

when in the west they must abide by our rules eh? that must be why islamic women in the uk walk round in hotpants. truth is they behave in the same way as in the khazi they sprung from. they do not adapt to our rules at all, and they do not have to as we bend over for them by allowing halal and men to have more than one wife, which we call bigamy, and results in imprisonment for a native of the uk.

Denmark have just approved it to let married muslim migrants have their 14
year old wife's live with them.

Germany are considering this also, but as above likely to approve it.

so if 14's ok, whats not to be allowed? 12? 10? absolutely ridiculous

what a wanchor you are gerald....you a bit of one yourself Frederick

They live in a different society to ours, who is to say who is right or who is wrong?

As far as our society they must live by our rules, if we allow them to carry on living by our rules we are complete idiots,
unless we are ok with it

hth

I am surprised Iran have banned playing chess in public

One thing you may not realise is how much our society has changed, I notice it because I have never left the 1960 or 1970's in my head

Compared to then, we are an amazingly effeminate society now. I find that a little unpleasant.

Unfortunately I am too old and not rich enough to move...probably be to Eastern Europe if I could, as long as I can get my bets on here.

Or to Africa or India or the Far East....definitely not a Muslim country!

if we allow them to carry on living by their rules we are complete idiots,

Just bend over and brace. We are slowly inch by inch giving in to them.  You will have no choice eventually. You have no idea how far they have 'integrated' into our system.  My advice to the young is to convert.

Does the Queen on the chess board have to wear a Hijab too?

and why would any female non muslim agree to wear one?

there's a couple of killers walking free in town who could do with having their faces covering up!!!

Its the religion of free choice!

Come to our country, & if you don't wear the medieval head wear we'll arrest
you & give you the appropriate punishment.

in the words of Hillary Clinton "if i was in power we would be able to totally  obliterate them/Iran"

But Trumps the dangerous one because he called a woman fat 20 years ago

These women are so intellectually superior to the half-wits that impose the rules... How belittling to be told what to wear on your head to play the game when you are a Chess Grandmaster.

Would they dare demand male chess players to wear a hat?

Men dictating how women behave.  You can see the attraction of this cult.  I wonder what the Guardian's view is of this.

This is how!
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/30/boycott-of-womens-world-chess-championship-iran-tehran

A handy idea for cheating,just need an earpiece to receive instructions from the man in their lives.

what next? women jockeys in the full burqa.

good point treetop, it is open to abuse, a lesser player could easily be
taking instructions from a better player by an ear piece.

I saw that at Sandown Ron-Russian

It was an Arab horse race, looked very strange full burqa and everything

no surely not

yep, remember thinking how strange it looked as she was on the horse in the parade ring.

My best advice for playing in Iran is don't talk about the bishops and even less so the queens.

That could be open to abuse also maleuk,

a man riding alongside would only need to show the whip & the woman would
probably full off expecting a beating

where will it end?  burkas and veils allowed in poker games ? 

That would give women an advantage in poker Platini

The female chess players should keep picking up the wrong chess pieces...and say how do you expect to me see the chess board

wearing this hijab!

This is going to be interesting lets hope the players calling for a boycott stick
to their guns, absolutely absurd to try & force this on visiting women,

Surely they should never have been picked to hold the tournament

Nigel Short, a British chess grandmaster, called on the sport’s governing body, Fide, to find a different venue, telling the Times: “The hijab is a symbol of Islamic repression.”

If a Islam loving organisation like the BBC ran the sport's governing body, it would make some sense.

So it could be that the heads of the actual governing body are simply trying to stir up trouble for some reason. And it looks like they've succeeded.

One problem is some Muslim women in our society in our society wear the hijab by choice

But some people say they should not

Bit of a mess all round

I think women should choose their attire as it is decent everywhere

if it is decent

women should dress like women, so that we all know that they are women

is it really too much to ask ?

bbc head of religion is ...............?

if you give an inch...........