Mother 証明するs footy IS a 宗教 by designing burqas in the colours of AFL teams

• Mother-of-four has designed a 範囲 of headscarves in AFL colours
• Her 創造s were 開始する，打ち上げるd ahead of the league's Multicultural 一連の会議、交渉／完成する
• Shanaaz Copeland said she got the idea at her daughters' sports day
• The AFL Multicultural 一連の会議、交渉／完成する is 始める，決める to be played from July 18 to July 27
  

By Louise 元気づける and Lucy Thackray

Published: 13:05 BST, 16 July 2014 | Updated: 00:15 BST, 17 July 2014

There's no 疑問 that Aussie 支配するs football is a 宗教 for many Australians, but now a イスラム教徒 mother is making sure everyone can join in, designing a line of burqas in the colours of your favourite AFL team.

Melbourne mother-of-four Shanaaz Copeland is the 操る behind まとまり Sports 包む scarves which can been worn as a beanie, 包む or a headscarf.

They were 明かすd ahead of the league’s multicultural 一連の会議、交渉／完成する from July 1 8 to 27.

Melbourne's Shanaaz Copeland designed a 範囲 of scarves ahead of the AFL Multicultural 一連の会議、交渉／完成する which are 存在 modelled here by her daughters

Ms Copeland - a devout イスラム教徒 - said the idea （機の）カム about because she 手配中の，お尋ね者 her daughters to feel more 含むd when they were …に出席するing 冒険的な events at school.

She has been working on the scarves 概念 for the past three to four years.

'My daughters go to an international 学院 where they wear a white scarf with their uniform,' Ms Copeland said.

'They had a footy day and in wearing footy jumper with their white scarf.

They went on sale yesterday and come in all 18 AFL team colours

'I saw them and thought "how 広大な／多数の／重要な would it be to see my girls with scarves in the footy team colours?"'

Ms Copeland said sport was a 広大な／多数の／重要な way to break 負かす／撃墜する 障壁s and (1)偽造する／(2)徐々に進む friendships across cultures.

'Sport has the 傾向 to create まとまり, it brings cultures together… [and] brings about peace and まとまり,' she said.

'This 一連の会議、交渉／完成する of footy shows how supportive the AFL is to 多様制 with the diverse multicultural backgrounds.

'Australia is really growing, becoming very multicultural, very important for us all to understand each other’s cultures.'

The scarves come in all 18 AFL team colours and can be worn by players 同様に as fans.

The まとまり Sports 包む can be worn three ways - one of them is as a headscarf

The 範囲 of scarves has been 拍手喝采する by cultural 専門家s who say it is a step in the 権利 direction

Centre for Australian Community Organisations and 管理／経営's Hazel Maxwell, from the University of 科学（工学）技術, Sydney, has commended the AFL for licensing まとまり Sports 包む to create these scarves.

Dr Maxwell said the AFL was sending a 肯定的な message to their Islamic 女性（の） 支持者s.

'研究 shows that "融通するing" dress codes are one of several 率先s that can make イスラム教徒 women, for example, feel more welcome and to feel as though they belong in Australian society,' she said.

'At the Lakemba Sport and Recreation Club in south-western Sydney, such changes over the last １０年間 have turned the club around from a 状況／情勢 where 会員の地位 was 拒絶する／低下するing at a 関心ing 率 to the point where the number of teams it could field 事実上 ３倍になるd in the space of a few years.

'同様に as a 柔軟な on-field dress code, Lakemba Sport and Recreation introduced women-only training 開会／開廷／会期s, 供給するd culturally appropriate food, sold only 非，不，無-アル中患者 drinks and 陳列する，発揮するd prominently 役割 models of イスラム教徒 women playing football.'

まとまり Sports 包む scarves went on sale yesterday.

The AFL are also 申し込む／申し出ing anyone with an international パスポート 解放する／自由な 入ること／参加（者） into any AFL game as a part of the Multicultural 一連の会議、交渉／完成する this 週末