The basketball cheap fifa 15 coins federation is behind other international sports organizations. FIFA, soccer’s governing body, preliminarily lifted its ban on hijabs in 2012 and fully lifted the ban on religious headwear, including Sikh turbans, earlier this year after determining that they had no bearing on the safety of soccer players. The International Olympic Committee, which worked hard to help include more Muslim athletes in its events, helped persuade the International Judo Federation to allow Saudi Arabia’s Wodjan Shahrkhani to compete at the 2012 London Olympics while wearing a modified headscarf. Safety concerns were an issue for the IJF as well, but Shahrkhani competed without incident just as the Sikh and Muslim basketball players have.
Aside from the important religious discrimination concerns, the ban is harmful to efforts to promote access to the sport in many parts of the Muslim world, where women already often face barriers to sports participation before international organizations like FIBA tell them they cannot wear hijabs to play.
FIBA officials will reportedly reconsider the ban at a www.utfifas.com meeting this week. If they are paying any attention at all, it ought to be a quick, easy decision.
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