Solmaz Sharif

Here we ask ourselves what does the confirmation of women’s Islamic clothing for different sports mean? In general the design of the female athletes clothing should fit and obey the Islamic rules of clothing and if a design get the confirmation it means that the Iran’s national women’s athletes are able to wear them in the international and national athletic events. Now if an athletic outfit gets confirmation why is that within our country, Iran, the fans should face the close doors and our female athletes should play with the limited number of spectators to the degree that even the members of their own family aren’t allowed to applaud them? Their fathers and brothers have never given a chance.

Now let us look at the situation for the girl athletes. We have many of them in our national teams with years of experience and even their fathers, who have been very important factors in their success, do not have any image of their daughter on the competition fields. Brother of this girl knows that her sister is an important figure in a sport but he does not know how she really plays it.

In the greater scale one should question this Issue all over the Islamic world: for instance in a football stadium in Jordan and for the football match between Women’s team of Iran and Jordan the authorities denied entrance permission to the male Photographers although the photographs of the same match were allover the media the next day.

At first glance, this story may look shallow and insignificant but it is bitter in its depth, when we think of all the effort these girls put in their sport and the reaction that they face. We all know about the excitement of an athlete’s family especially when she is facing a sport event. They tell all the relatives and invite them to go see the event and applaud the athlete. After all, aren’t these athletes celebrities for their family and the country? Isn’t encouraging the youngsters to do sports, an important way of making sure that they are on a healthy and purposeful path?

To answering these questions one may not need to spend a long time although for making these changes deep and steady within our culture we need to go one step at a time.