It’s always the same story when these controversies arise, the day before yesterday on the burkini, yesterday on the abaya, today on the hijab. Some politicians throw themselves on it as if it were a bone to gnaw at to maintain their small business; others look elsewhere, denying any problem in remaining faithful to one line, the Muslim who would by definition be a victim; others finally procrastinate, like Lionel Jospin in his time, faced with the affair of the veiled high school girls of Creil in 1989.
The Council of State will decide this Thursday, June 29 on the question of wearing the hijab in football. The rapporteur was in favor of it, giving reason to the group of hijabeuses, these amateur football players who oppose the regulations of the French Football Federation, which wishes to prohibit any religious sign on the ground.
To get out of this trap, two rules are necessary: after the law, it will be up to politicians, parliamentarians or government, to decide, because that is their mission; Faced with an offensive political Islam, we must stick firmly to the respect of a few simple principles, in the forefront of which is secularism and beyond, on a sports field, neutrality.