The image of children symbolizes the joy

"The image of children symbolizes joy"

"Björn Eriksson: the sports Movement is for everyone – veil or not."

"This is an opinion piece. It is the writer who stands for the views that are put forward in the text, not Against."

"the DEBATE. On Facebook you can see a blonde boy who try shooting with a blue skidskyttegevär. Next to him is a dark girl with her hair in the headscarf who also try shooting with the same skidskyttegevär. They are both on the Olympic day in Västerås. A day where children and young people got to meet the olympians and try out different sports, maybe try a sport they had never before come in contact with."

"For me this picture is about joy and inclusion. That we, as a sporting movement is open to all. It is with pride that I look back on the past few years. The sports movement is with their common language, meetings over the borders, which is based on the community one of the best integrationsmotorer we have in Sweden."

"Some interpreted the picture as to the sports movement would justify hederskulturen. We simply would normalize the use of the veil, and normalize the culture of honor and hedersförtryck. Let me be clear. "

"the sports Movement takes away from all the honour related oppression of both women and men. At the same time, it is important that you manage to keep two thoughts in your head. "

"it is also important that newly arrived girls – the target group we have had the most difficult to reach from the sports movement and that, therefore, is a priority – feel that sport is also for them, the veil or not. To show that there are girls with different cultural and ethnic background as the sport becomes important. We can not stand for a movement that excludes anyone for belonging to a particular religion or wearing of a certain religious characteristics. "

"All of the volunteers that every day contribute to make Sweden stronger makes me warm on the heart. In 2015, the government decided to assign the sport state support for investments for the new arrivals. From 2017, we get the additional funds to work in segregated areas. Since then much has happened. "

"In 2017, organised the sports movement activities for nearly 790 000 participants in almost all of the country's 290 municipalities in this effort. It is just numbers, but spectacular numbers. "

"behind the numbers are people. People who have fled the war and came to our country recently, or people who have been in Sweden for a long time but have found themselves in exclusion, and who has received a context and, hopefully, better health. "

"We make a difference for these people. Not that sport is the solution to their situation, but because we can offer a fun and meaningful employment, a healthy active leisure, with the opportunity for involvement and a sense of community in the association as a way into Swedish society. "

"What would happen if the sport did not continue to contribute in this work? And what would happen if we were not welcomed all of them? "

"There may be a greater or less obstacle to start the sport, and the barriers may for example vary depending on where you live, what economic conditions you have and how close you are to the sport. "

"the Obstacles are individual and it is also a part of the strategy to become even better at making it easier for anyone to be with, regardless of background and circumstances. "

"with you as a new arrival becomes a part of the community in a law, a compound will get you much more on the purchase as friends and languages, you can be a part of the developing Swedish sport. You also get some of the values of sport. This, in turn, has been shown to provide a good foundation and security for the individual and a simpler and faster way to enter into the rest of society. "

"In meeting with each other, within the movement we are helping to make Sweden stronger. Let us do this for the long term and let us continue to give everyone the opportunity to learn more about democracy and values. "

"nBjörn Eriksson, chairman of the Swedish sports Confederation and SISU They"

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