[Bloquez l'empire!] ADVISORY: Girls' team barred from competing in annual Tae Kwon Do Tournament in Montreal

[Tadamon!]

MEDIA ADVISORY:

Girls' team barred from competing in annual Tae Kwon Do Tournament

Montreal, 18 March 2007 -- A girls' team is being barred from competing in a 
Tae Kwon Do tournament taking place in Longueuil, Quebec today. The CCMM 
Ultimate Tae-kwon-do Club showed up at the annual Quebec regional Raymond 
Mourad Championship today only to be told that the girls' team could not 
participate, on the grounds that their heads are covered. Both the boys' and 
girls' teams have participated in various Tae Kwon Do tournaments for the past 
two years, with some of the girls receiving top medals in the competitions. 
This is the first time the girls have been discriminated against.

The team and their coaches, severely disappointed, are remaining at the 
day-long event, in the hope that the tournament organizers will relent, and 
allow them to compete along with the boys. The tournament is taking place at 
the Centre Sportif of Collège Édouard Montpetit at 260, rue De Gentilly Est, 
Longueuil, Québec.

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For more information or interviews:

Coaches: Gael Texier (514 213 0804) or Mahdi Sbeiti (514-803-3712)
CCMM: May Haydar (514-969-2429) or Bassam Hussein (514-591-9224)
Tadamon! Montreal: 514 664 1036

Source:

CCMM Ultimate Tae-kwon-do, Centre Communautaire Musulman de Montréal and 
Tadamon! Montreal (http://tadamon.resist.ca)