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Home Front: Culture Wars
USF Female B-Baller Quits- Had Requested Muslim Uniform Exception
2004-09-16
Beginning of NCAA dhimmitude?
A University of South Florida women's basketball player who wanted to wear Islamic clothing on the court quit the team on Wednesday. Last week, USF had asked the NCAA for an exemption to its uniform policy to allow Muslim convert Andrea Armstrong, 22, to wear long pants, a top with long sleeves and a scarf during games.
... and curly-toed basketball shoes...
In a letter Wednesday to coach Jose Fernandez, Armstrong said she was leaving the team because she didn't want the uniform issue "to cause further distraction." Armstrong first said last week that she had left the team and lost her athletic scholarship after Fernandez told her she could not wear religiously mandated clothing during practices or games.
"How the hell y'gonna shoot baskets with a veil, fergawdsake?"
In a meeting Friday with Armstrong, university officials and a representative of Council on American-Islamic Relations, officials agreed that the team would accommodate her Islamic attire and reinstate her scholarship. The university also agreed to work with the NCAA on the scarf issue.
Appeasement Central
But Fernandez said Armstrong requested a meeting with him Wednesday and left the team. "I offered her an opportunity to think further on her decision, and she assured me the decision is final," Fernandez said. Armstrong, a senior forward from Lakeside, Ore., played one season with the Bulls after transferring from Kansas State University. CAIR spokesman Ahmed Bedier said Armstrong had not been prepared for the onslaught of attention, including hate messages, that she received. "She wanted to put her team first, after her faith, and she didn't want to be the center of the controversy," he said.
Actually tried to shoot baskets with a headscarf on, did she?
Religion and sports have intersected elsewhere. At Towson University in Maryland, star player Tamir Goodman, an Orthodox Jew, wore a yarmulke on the court and did not play on the Jewish Sabbath. At the Olympics in Greece, several female athletes wore head scarves.
We were all impressed by the Bahrain water ski team...
Posted by:Frank G

#14  How the hell y'gonna shoot baskets with a veil, fergawdsake?

Rather poorly, I'd think. We'll just start calling her Shaq.
Posted by: Raj   2004-09-16 8:04:58 PM  

#13  nahhh she likes being told what to do and physical contact
Posted by: Frank G   2004-09-16 6:30:38 PM  

#12  Another smart person surrenders their intellect and full potential in exchange for mere orderliness and formality masquerading as a religion.

Remember kids, even smart people if they are desparate enough will do any stupid thing that promises a quick fix to solve their problems.

Let me see, she probably admires islam because it has an answer for everything and a rule for everything that you do. I'll bet she also sees that the world would be a much better place if everybody just realized that we just need to surrender our liberty and then all the messiness of human life as we know it would just disappear.

Something like that. We'll never be rid of utopians nor crazy schemes and causes designed to make the world perfectly orderly but also stagnant and uncreative and obsessed with mass obdience over individual conscience and the death of art and the forcing underground of all kinds of nasty nasty criminal practices etc etc.

But hey at least on the surface everything in islamatopia will look great!
Posted by: peggy   2004-09-16 6:16:41 PM  

#11  bad link big ed. Could you fix it, please?
Posted by: peggy   2004-09-16 5:54:15 PM  

#10  Somebody ought to ask the Muslim chick if it has EVER dawned on ANY Muslim, ANY time, within the last 1400 years that perhaps, JUST perhaps, it's now time for Muslims to make an accomodation with Western Civilization?
Posted by: Mark Z.   2004-09-16 5:54:05 PM  

#9  A women's b'ball team called the "Bulls"? And Gertrude told me you couldn't play baseball with two mitts....
Posted by: Alice B Toklas   2004-09-16 4:42:27 PM  

#8   "She wanted to put her team first, after her faith, and she didn’t want to be the center of the controversy," he said.

Bullshit. If the team came first, Armstrong (or whatever her name is now) either wouldn't have brought it up in the first place, or simply quit outright without asking, to avoid the possibility of the issue being publicized. She did neither, which tells me that Mr Bedier is full of crap.
Posted by: Bomb-a-rama   2004-09-16 3:18:14 PM  

#7  Better get all the men out of the bleachers and train some muttaween to ref the games while you're at it, Andrea...
Posted by: Seafarious   2004-09-16 2:29:21 PM  

#6  Riddle me this-how does a person concentrate on her game when all the while in the back of her head she is wondering if too much of her forearm is showing. Some women are their own worst enemies.
Posted by: jules 187   2004-09-16 2:21:54 PM  

#5  Idiot!
Now run along and become some Muslim man's third wife and field to till as he wishes. No back talk either, or ya get the cane!
Posted by: TS(vice girl)   2004-09-16 2:19:20 PM  

#4  Oh yeah. Good ol' USF, former stomping grounds of CAIR poster boy Professor Sami al-Arian.
Must be the water down there.
Posted by: tu3031   2004-09-16 2:16:42 PM  

#3  Blasphemer female! How dare she even think about school. Now come and sit on my lap for a proper muslim education.
Posted by: Mullah Omar   2004-09-16 1:59:05 PM  

#2  Has she gone along with the Islamic opinions on women drivers as well?

I'd be curious how the Islamic clothes affect her game. Its very possible that she never would have made the team in the first place if she'd worn the clothes before she got the scholarship.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2004-09-16 1:49:31 PM  

#1  

Andrea Armstrong in her Christian days

Posted by: BigEd   2004-09-16 1:44:13 PM  

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