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<blockquote data-quote="Archived_Member16" data-source="post: 186078" data-attributes="member: 884"><p><span style="color: Navy"> <strong><span style="font-size: 18px">On the soccer pitch, we are all Sikhs now</span></strong></span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong>John Ivison - The National Post - 13/06/13 5:33 PM ET</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><img src="http://nationalpostcomment.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/pob13_0610_turban0170.jpg?w=1240" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><span style="color: Red">Soccer player Yiannis Amir, right, with teammates Thomas Plante St-Cyr, left, and Kairbek Mourtazov wear turbans during practice of FC Brossard U14AA on Monday June 10, 2013 at Poly-Arena park in Brossard, Quebec.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">The team, based in Chelsea, Que., is planning to don the Sikh headgear to protest the idiocy of the Quebec Soccer Federation’s turban ban.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">We play most of our games against Ontario teams. Or we did until we were informed that we are banned until further notice, following the Canadian Soccer Association’s suspension of the QSF.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Another 20 youth teams from Ontario have also just discovered they will not, after all, be playing in Montreal this weekend because the soccer authorities won’t grant them travel permits.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">The Quebec provincial association, abetted by the entire provincial political class, has decided that wearing a turban is a clear and present danger to anyone in the vicinity.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">I have played soccer for 40 years. I know danger on the field. I used to play against men called Dingo in parts of Glasgow you wouldn’t walk around in broad daylight, unless armed with a nuclear missile.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">The thing we can all agree on is that nobody should “impose their values” on anyone else. The Quebec Soccer Federation should not impose its values on Sikh children and others whose religion commands them to wear a turban while playing. The Canadian Soccer Association should not impose its values on the QSF. And FIFA should not impose its values, whatever these might happen to be, on the CSA. Have I left anyone out?</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Let’s dismiss the canard that it’s about safety. Footballers routinely wear bandages and continue playing if they suffer a head-wound. Petr Cech, the veteran Chelsea goalie, wears headgear in the English Premier League every week FOR PROTECTION.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">The only other semi-coherent explanation I’ve heard was offered in Maclean’s by a blogger called Simon Delorme. He suggested that the ruling was about abiding by the rules, including the regulations about the uniform. Soccer players don’t wear baseball caps or ski goggles, he pointed out.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">“Just as there are religious values, there are sports values,” he wrote. This universality guarantees that whether in M{censored}illes or Mumbai, “anyone can join in, anyone can play…”</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Can anyone see the flaw in an argument that continued in this vein, as it slowly circled the plug-hole?</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">In actual fact, there is nothing in law four that says you can’t wear a soft-brimmed cap — in fact, many goalies do, in order to shield their eyes from the sun. The rule says a player must not use equipment or wear anything that is dangerous to him (or her) self or any other player, including jewelry. We have already established that a tightly wound cloth is not hazardous, short of the player unfurling it and wrapping it around a referee’s neck in a murderous rage.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">In actual fact, there is nothing in law four that says you can’t wear a soft-brimmed cap — in fact, many goalies do, in order to shield their eyes from the sun. The rule says a player must not use equipment or wear anything that is dangerous to him (or her) self or any other player, including jewelry</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">I don’t particularly buy the idea that the QSF move is motivated by some deep-seated francophone antipathy to any kind of religious display. I think it is much less nuanced than any complex arguments about identity and reasonable accommodation.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Rather, I suspect it reflects official Quebec’s feverish distemper to control everything in its own small fishpond, like an unarmed North Korea.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">The QSF made a decision that was self-evidently absurd and indefensible. The Canadian Soccer Association could not sit on the fence, so it brought down its own sanction.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Tom Mulcair, the NDP leader, spoke to the QSF and in a speech Tuesday in Ottawa, hinted that a compromise was in the offing. But that was before the intervention of Quebec’s politicians, including Premier Pauline Marois, all pandering to the lowest common denominator. Political engagement hardened attitudes as the turban ban was presented as a microcosm of federal-provincial relations and English Canada’s desire to impose its will on legitimate Quebec exceptionalism.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Except, of course, the QSF is a creature of the CSA in a way that the province is not when it comes to relations with Ottawa.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">This sad chapter seems entirely in keeping with other bone-headed moves made by Quebec’s leaders just because they can.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">The province’s grievance culture seems to elevate people who, because they want to boss other people around, are, ipso facto, least suited to do it.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">This sad chapter seems entirely in keeping with other bone-headed moves made by Quebec’s leaders just because they can</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">One Quebec referee recently told me I couldn’t play wearing shorts with pockets, again for safety reasons. Protests that I was hardly likely to trip over my own pockets were not met with good grace and he eventually decided that the game would survive without my further involvement.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">This idiot is probably a big cheese in the QSF, reveling in a suddenly improved safety record now that hundreds of Sikh kids and, yes, middle-aged hackers are playing in their backyards.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Quebec will be a lot better off when it realizes that the people who want to run the province — the overly officious grievance junkies who think the law is there to boss people around — should, on no account, be allowed to do so.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong>In the meantime, I will learn how to tie a turban. We’re all Sikhs now.</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong>source:</strong> <a href="http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2013/06/13/john-ivison-on-the-soccer-pitch-we-are-all-sikhs-now/" target="_blank">http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2013/06/13/john-ivison-on-the-soccer-pitch-we-are-all-sikhs-now/</a></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Archived_Member16, post: 186078, member: 884"] [COLOR="Navy"] [B][SIZE="5"]On the soccer pitch, we are all Sikhs now[/SIZE][/B] [B]John Ivison - The National Post - 13/06/13 5:33 PM ET[/B] [IMG]http://nationalpostcomment.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/pob13_0610_turban0170.jpg?w=1240[/IMG] [COLOR="Red"]Soccer player Yiannis Amir, right, with teammates Thomas Plante St-Cyr, left, and Kairbek Mourtazov wear turbans during practice of FC Brossard U14AA on Monday June 10, 2013 at Poly-Arena park in Brossard, Quebec.[/COLOR] The team, based in Chelsea, Que., is planning to don the Sikh headgear to protest the idiocy of the Quebec Soccer Federation’s turban ban. We play most of our games against Ontario teams. Or we did until we were informed that we are banned until further notice, following the Canadian Soccer Association’s suspension of the QSF. Another 20 youth teams from Ontario have also just discovered they will not, after all, be playing in Montreal this weekend because the soccer authorities won’t grant them travel permits. The Quebec provincial association, abetted by the entire provincial political class, has decided that wearing a turban is a clear and present danger to anyone in the vicinity. I have played soccer for 40 years. I know danger on the field. I used to play against men called Dingo in parts of Glasgow you wouldn’t walk around in broad daylight, unless armed with a nuclear missile. The thing we can all agree on is that nobody should “impose their values” on anyone else. The Quebec Soccer Federation should not impose its values on Sikh children and others whose religion commands them to wear a turban while playing. The Canadian Soccer Association should not impose its values on the QSF. And FIFA should not impose its values, whatever these might happen to be, on the CSA. Have I left anyone out? Let’s dismiss the canard that it’s about safety. Footballers routinely wear bandages and continue playing if they suffer a head-wound. Petr Cech, the veteran Chelsea goalie, wears headgear in the English Premier League every week FOR PROTECTION. The only other semi-coherent explanation I’ve heard was offered in Maclean’s by a blogger called Simon Delorme. He suggested that the ruling was about abiding by the rules, including the regulations about the uniform. Soccer players don’t wear baseball caps or ski goggles, he pointed out. “Just as there are religious values, there are sports values,” he wrote. This universality guarantees that whether in M{censored}illes or Mumbai, “anyone can join in, anyone can play…” Can anyone see the flaw in an argument that continued in this vein, as it slowly circled the plug-hole? In actual fact, there is nothing in law four that says you can’t wear a soft-brimmed cap — in fact, many goalies do, in order to shield their eyes from the sun. The rule says a player must not use equipment or wear anything that is dangerous to him (or her) self or any other player, including jewelry. We have already established that a tightly wound cloth is not hazardous, short of the player unfurling it and wrapping it around a referee’s neck in a murderous rage. In actual fact, there is nothing in law four that says you can’t wear a soft-brimmed cap — in fact, many goalies do, in order to shield their eyes from the sun. The rule says a player must not use equipment or wear anything that is dangerous to him (or her) self or any other player, including jewelry . I don’t particularly buy the idea that the QSF move is motivated by some deep-seated francophone antipathy to any kind of religious display. I think it is much less nuanced than any complex arguments about identity and reasonable accommodation. Rather, I suspect it reflects official Quebec’s feverish distemper to control everything in its own small fishpond, like an unarmed North Korea. The QSF made a decision that was self-evidently absurd and indefensible. The Canadian Soccer Association could not sit on the fence, so it brought down its own sanction. Tom Mulcair, the NDP leader, spoke to the QSF and in a speech Tuesday in Ottawa, hinted that a compromise was in the offing. But that was before the intervention of Quebec’s politicians, including Premier Pauline Marois, all pandering to the lowest common denominator. Political engagement hardened attitudes as the turban ban was presented as a microcosm of federal-provincial relations and English Canada’s desire to impose its will on legitimate Quebec exceptionalism. Except, of course, the QSF is a creature of the CSA in a way that the province is not when it comes to relations with Ottawa. This sad chapter seems entirely in keeping with other bone-headed moves made by Quebec’s leaders just because they can. The province’s grievance culture seems to elevate people who, because they want to boss other people around, are, ipso facto, least suited to do it. This sad chapter seems entirely in keeping with other bone-headed moves made by Quebec’s leaders just because they can One Quebec referee recently told me I couldn’t play wearing shorts with pockets, again for safety reasons. Protests that I was hardly likely to trip over my own pockets were not met with good grace and he eventually decided that the game would survive without my further involvement. This idiot is probably a big cheese in the QSF, reveling in a suddenly improved safety record now that hundreds of Sikh kids and, yes, middle-aged hackers are playing in their backyards. Quebec will be a lot better off when it realizes that the people who want to run the province — the overly officious grievance junkies who think the law is there to boss people around — should, on no account, be allowed to do so. [B]In the meantime, I will learn how to tie a turban. We’re all Sikhs now.[/B] [B]source:[/B] [url]http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2013/06/13/john-ivison-on-the-soccer-pitch-we-are-all-sikhs-now/[/url][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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