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2016-08-05 Home Front: Culture Wars
Muslim-American Olympian feels unsafe ‘all the time' in U.S.
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Posted by Besoeker 2016-08-05 02:36|| || Front Page|| [3 views ]  Top

#1 Someone wearing a sack, walking down a street in New York carrying a sword.

Ummm nope, no problem.
Posted by Skidmark 2016-08-05 07:33||   2016-08-05 07:33|| Front Page Top

#2 Urban Ninja

Posted by Skidmark 2016-08-05 07:38||   2016-08-05 07:38|| Front Page Top

#3 Stoking the embers of exceptional victimhood.
Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839 2016-08-05 07:44||   2016-08-05 07:44|| Front Page Top

#4 "Who I am challenges and shatters those stereotypes..." Quite to the contrary. You reinforce that stereotype and the belief that in the American melting pot Muslims don't melt.
Posted by Slease Pelosi2504 2016-08-05 09:04||   2016-08-05 09:04|| Front Page Top

#5 Nice photo Skid. The 'birth control' eye glasses provided a much needed retro-touch.
Posted by Besoeker 2016-08-05 09:08||   2016-08-05 09:08|| Front Page Top

#6 I don't know, you call out for attention and you get attention... that's how it works. Be careful what you ask for, you might not like it.
Posted by jvalentour 2016-08-05 10:31||   2016-08-05 10:31|| Front Page Top

#7 Has it considered where it lives is the problem? I wouldn't feel safe in Nazi land New York either. And I dont wear a sack and belong to the death cult of pedophilia and goat shagging
Posted by Silentbrick 2016-08-05 10:31||   2016-08-05 10:31|| Front Page Top

#8 Really? Even during the intense training time at Olympic level gym?
Posted by swksvolFF 2016-08-05 11:22||   2016-08-05 11:22|| Front Page Top

#9 Well you walk around deliberatly hiding your features so people can't see what kind of person you are or even your face - but openly declaring yourself aligned with a death cult which celebrates when someone dressed like you blows up a bunch of innocent civilians.

Prudence suggests that you be treated at a distance (preferable beyond blast radius).

Its not racism - its self-defense.
Posted by CrazyFool 2016-08-05 11:36||   2016-08-05 11:36|| Front Page Top

#10 Surprising she'd be competitive as a fencer wearing a non-standard outfit.
Posted by rjschwarz 2016-08-05 11:48||   2016-08-05 11:48|| Front Page Top

#11 She also has a fashion design company. There is a picture of her at the link -- she doesn't seem to be a moving black object, nor wearing anything nonstandard for her sport except for covering her hair under the mask. But according to Wikipedia she is an African-American Muslim whose double major was African studies, so she is primed to see prejudice aimed in her direction.
Posted by trailing wife 2016-08-05 12:54||   2016-08-05 12:54|| Front Page Top

#12 Take off the mask, let us see your face and maybe we can talk.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2016-08-05 13:08||   2016-08-05 13:08|| Front Page Top

#13 Good. Maybe the country's not in as bad shape as I had imagined.
Posted by Albemarle Whigum5157 2016-08-05 14:31||   2016-08-05 14:31|| Front Page Top

#14 Sounds like a progressive, victim espousing fucktard.
Posted by DarthVader 2016-08-05 17:04||   2016-08-05 17:04|| Front Page Top

#15 There's an app for that:

Posted by Blossom Unains5562 2016-08-05 19:11||   2016-08-05 19:11|| Front Page Top

#16 If I were a trainer or staff assigned to her, I would be so flattered I would walk off the job right now, so she wouldn't be so scared.

I had someone follow me home from practice, trying to report me to the police

Be
Cuz
There was someone walking around in a hajib and carrying a sword?

Or are just making stuff up out of whole cloth?
Posted by swksvolFF 2016-08-05 19:27||   2016-08-05 19:27|| Front Page Top

#17 Maybe she lives in a bad neighborhood. Or borders on one. Even Jessie Jackson said that stuff scared him.
Posted by SteveS 2016-08-05 19:35||   2016-08-05 19:35|| Front Page Top

#18 Some would say that as a Muslim in a hijab,she forms her own 'bad neighborhood' around herself.
Posted by CrazyFool 2016-08-05 21:06||   2016-08-05 21:06|| Front Page Top

#19 Or maybe the neighbors are wondering what a Muslim woman is doing out and about, unaccompanied by her husband or a male relative.
Posted by SteveS 2016-08-05 21:29||   2016-08-05 21:29|| Front Page Top

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