Iran’s women footballers: Let them play

The man who bans the hijab proposed in 2004 that women players wear “hot pants” on the pitch to boost the sport’s popularity, saying that “tighter shorts” would produce “a more female aesthetic” [Reuters] Football is the great global game: the closest thing we have to a connective cultural tissue that binds our species across national and cultural borders. But only in a world so upside down could

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"Those who bleat that "sports and politics" should be kept separate when an athlete dares express an opinion, should turn their outrage toward Blatter, Kissinger, and FIFA's decision to see soccer as a tool to sideline Muslim women."