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What Goes Around Comes Around The 2010 edition of the FIFA World Cup in South Africa has produced many twists and surprises thus far. One can’t help but think about “what goes around comes around” when considering the exit of France from the FIFA World Cup in South Africa. On 1 November 2009, France played Ireland in [...] Present Case Of Fine For Driving Wearing A Niqab Police in Vaucluse in southern France stopped a car that was being driven erratically, and found that the driver was wearing a niqab. The headscarf was obviously “bothering the driver in her manoeuvres”, said a spokesman. She was fined €22 ($29) for driving with a reduced field of [...] The French Declaration On The Full-Face Veil Recently the French National Assembly adopted a non-binding resolution against the full-face veil. This symbolic gesture brings the country a step nearer a ban on the full veil. The National Assembly’s declaration states that “Radical practices which violate the dignity and equality between men and women, such as the wearing [...] Calls For Ban On Burqa Intensify One of the arguments against introducing laws to ban the wearing of burqas in public on grounds of security is that the number of cases in which burqa wearers have proved a security threat has been small. Somebody has also pointed out that the burqa is not practical wear for criminals [...] Last November French soccer team captain Henry Thierry helped scored an infamous goal for France during a 2010 FIFA World Cup Final qualifying round against Ireland. He used his hands, not once but twice, to keep the ball in illegal play before passing the ball to fellow French striker William Gallas to score the all important goal that [...] This story is not new, but since I am on a series about teenage Indonesian model Manohara Odelia Pinot who ran away from her Kelantan prince husband, Tengku Muhammad Fakhry Sultan Ismail Petra, I might as well blog on it. It seems that Daisy Fajarina, the mother of Manohara Odelia Pinot, had a brush with the [...] FIFA’s executive committee has just concluded its emergency meeting at Cape Town, South Africa. On the question of Henry Thierry’s by now infamous double handball fouls (unnoticed by the referee and his assistants) that got France into the 2010 FIFA World Cup Finals at the expense of Ireland, FIFA president Sepp Blatter now calls that a [...] If you have been following the Henry Thierry saga, you must be wondering whether FIFA President Sepp Blatter has changed his mind about supporting Henry Thierry. It was a double handball foul by Henry Thierry that led to France qualifying for next year’s FIFA World Cup Final competition at the expense of Ireland. The fouls were not [...] |
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