By drawing up a list of bans for his wife on TikTok, a Muslim footballer and influencer from Gard sparks controversy

Le footballeur égrène sa liste d'interdictions devant la caméra. CAPTURE TIKTOK

Adel Sidi Yakoub, jeune footballeur qui joue à Uzès dans le Gard a publié une vidéo le 6 janvier dernier dans laquelle il liste les obligations que devra suivre son épouse. 

He wanted to create a buzz and he succeeded. Adel Sidi Yakoub, who is a footballer for the Entente sportive d'Uzès in Gard, published a video on TikTok on January 6. And he did not list his good resolutions for 2024 but rather a list of prohibitions for the attention of his (future) wife.

And as the young man has a huge following on social networks, he has almost 800,000 subscribers on TikTok, the video made noise…

The list "My wife will not have the right…"

The footballer thus lists his named list "My wife will not have the right…" facing the camera with five bans.

His wife will therefore not have the right… : 

– "To have boy friends."

– "To work with men around her. Only with women and if possible at home."

– "to go on a trip without me. She forgets trips with her friends. It's me who protects her. If I'm not there, she can travel with her brother or her father, men from her family, that's all."

– "To dress in tight or vulgar clothes. My wife's body is mine, no one looks at her. Minimum very very large clothes and the best, the veil but I don't want to force her.

– "To expose yourself on social networks. Me, I expose myself because it's my job and I make her eat thanks to that. I want to preserve it.

@keonii_ ?ADEL IS MISOGYN AND WANTS TO IMPOSE THESE RULES IN FRANCE ?? Your opinion ? He's going too far ? Isn't this regressive, especially restricting his woman ? Is this not disrespecting the freedom of women ? Adel, a French footballer with 780,000 subscribers and who defends a rigorous Islam, declares that his wife will not be able to have çboy friends», «s’express on social networks» or even put on «tight-fitting clothes». Between two videos on football, a Muslim influencer insisted on sharing his content. explain à his 780,000 TikTok subscribers the rules to which his future wife will have to comply. In the video published on Saturday entitled «My wife will not have the right», Adel Sidi Yakoub, player within the Entente Sportive Pays d'Uzes, in the Gard department, lists five bans that it considers “very reasonable”. His wife will also be prohibited from &lquo;working with men», even if it means that she is not allowed to work with men. «stay à the house». She won’t be able to “go on a trip without me” anymore, Adel continues. «The trips with her friends, she forgets (…) It’s me who protects her», believes the young man who however admits an exception for «the men of his family, brother or father. Your opinion ? #keonii #keonews #adel #syadel30 #syadel #adelleinverse #adelfemme #adelcnews #adelfoot #drama #scandale #polemic #debat #cnews #pourtoi #foryoupageofficiall2022 #fypシ #fyp ♬ original sound – Keonii | Internet News ?️

The video on his list has since been removed.

A second video which was also deleted from his account, the footballer who received numerous criticisms and remarks after his list, particularly due to the fact that he is Muslim. & nbsp;

He declares that this Muslim word has nothing to do with his list and what he thinks: "The things I said, they can be said and thought by full of non-Muslims and a lot more than you think. Obviously because I'm Muslim it gets more clicks and that's useful to you."

And to clarify that he is not a misogynist: "In my Muslim beliefs, I will preserve my wife. I am not a misogynist, I have no contempt for women, none, on the other hand you obviously have contempt for Muslims, as reported by France 3.

A trend originally to silence the controversy

Heavily attacked from all sides, Adel Sidi Yakoub has been trying to justify himself since the publication of his video. And on those which are still posted on his TikTok account, he assures that it was a kind of joke, that he played a role of ;actor. "I have always defended and highlighted my pride in being French, and my community knows it."

For him this "list" was made after a trend on TikTok. The young man then explains what a trend is, "it's about a trend" and he continued this trend "my wife will not have the right to…" or "my man will not have the right to…".

@syadel30

don't hesitate to tell me in the comments who played the best! between all of us ?

♬ original sound – ADEL ??

Then he made a video holding a blank notebook while "acting", he justifies himself.

Practicing Muslim and French patriot

Before adding that the person who was described in the media following the publication of the famous list, "it's everything except me. People who know me know this very, very well. I have always displayed my pride in being French and I have always defended it."

In another video, he declares in response to an Internet user who asks him to go and impose his rules in Arab countries: "I am someone very very patriotic. As a practicing Muslim, I am someone who loves France and who will defend it." 

@syadel30 Reply to @ADAM SECRET ? ♬ original sound – ADEL ??

With his words he provoked a new controversy. Some criticize him for turning his coat around. In the meantime, he does not really comment in his statements on what he thinks about the place of women…