I've yet to see Amish blowing up buildings, killing gays in night clubs or slitting throats of non-believers either.
and definitely proud to be there representing and being good influences to other american girls looking to try out in the future. They made some very nice statements to that fact. I loved what they said.These are athletes, they went to represent the USA and compete....not to whine and play the victim card.
Work on it and see if you can figure out why most do not perceive the Amish as they do Muslims.
and definitely proud to be there representing and being good influences to other american girls looking to try out in the future. They made some very nice statements to that fact. I loved what they said.These are athletes, they went to represent the USA and compete....not to whine and play the victim card.
What has she actually said and who made the big fuss about her wearing a hijab? The media. Muhammad out - but media won't let hijab-wearing American go quietly
She's just a young woman, a lovely young woman, who made it to the Olympics and was trying to win for her country. She's OURS. She was proud to be out there, representing and being good influences to other american girls looking to try out in the future.
Ibtihaj Muhammad stoic in defeat: 'I feel proud to represent Team USA'
If Donald Trump needs a reminder she stood in a hallway beneath the arena’s stands early Monday afternoon, her eyes wide and clear, her voice strong and words firm. She didn’t scream, she didn’t plead, she didn’t cry. She simply said: “I feel proud to represent Team USA even in defeat.”
She was here to fence, which is what got lost on the way to her first Olympics. In any other Games she would have been another 30-year-old woman from New Jersey, a mild curiosity as the first American female fencer to compete in a hijab. Her loss would have been a small note on NBC. Mostly her face would have disappeared in the montage of head shots the US Olympic Committee publishes of all 554 athletes who are here, barely recognizable in the mosaic that is America.
But the spring of Donald Trump has melded into the summer of Donald Trump and the words spilling from the campaign back home have made Ibtihaj Muhammad more than just another athlete on just another US Olympic team. She has become one of the best symbols against intolerance America can ever have.
“It’s almost like how can you not see that Muslims are like any other group?” she said on Monday. “We are conservative, we are liberal. There are women who cover, there are women who don’t. There are African American Muslims, there are white Muslims, there are Arab Muslims. There are so many different types of Muslims. So many Muslim countries have women as heads of state. And there are things I want people to be aware of. I want people to not see just those women but also Muslim women who participate in sports. The Saudi Arabian team, the Kuwaiti team and now the American team.”
Muhammad had a message even in her loss. The Olympics, she said, are bigger than her, bigger than any personal ambition or childhood dream. Monday wasn’t about her performance, it was about standing before the world and saying that her pursuit is as important as anybody else’s, that a loss should be a victory for so many other people who don’t have the luxury of competing in an Olympics.
“I think that anyone who has paid attention to the news would know the importance of having a Muslim woman on Team USA,” she said. “Again, it’s not just any team, it’s the United States of America. In light of all the political fuss that we hear about, all these things I feel like kind of circle back to my presence on Team USA. And again, it’s challenging those misconceptions that people have about who the Muslim woman is.”
She was asked what those misconceptions are.
“That someone is forcing me to wear this hijab,” she said. “That I’m oppressed. That I don’t have a voice. Anyone who knows me knows that I’m vert vocal, very verbal, and very comfortable expressing myself. I’ve always ben like that. I remember being told that I shouldn’t fence as a kid because I was black, and it’s like why? I want to fence, and this is what I want to do.”
She said her parents never said her religion or gender should stop her from doing what she wanted. Her father Eugene, a former cop, pushed his kids in sports like any other American father who wanted a family of athletes. He never wanted his daughters to feel they couldn’t compete because they wore clothes that were different from the kids at Columbia High School. He found his girls fencing for the same reason he found his son football. She chased her brother through their backyard pool and across sports fields all over town. She wants other girls to feel they can do the same.
No one is celebrating Amish dress. If you feel compelled to celebrate Muslim dress and wearing dirty underwear, you are free to do so.
Amazing...celebrate an American athlete in the Olympics and you get labeled an "Islam appeaser"
Celebrate? What are we celebrating? She lost.
She, and her team are still our athletes. Does that only apply to the winners?
I guess that means something in the world of everyone gets a trophy.
Was watching women's foil today and there was no big deal made about our fencers outside of the fact that they were americans. They, unlike Mohammed, put their country first and competed. Mohammed decided it was more important to put the focus on her oppressive muzzie hood instead of putting the focus on our country.
No wonder she lost.
and definitely proud to be there representing and being good influences to other american girls looking to try out in the future. They made some very nice statements to that fact. I loved what they said.These are athletes, they went to represent the USA and compete....not to whine and play the victim card.
What has she actually said and who made the big fuss about her wearing a hijab? The media. Muhammad out - but media won't let hijab-wearing American go quietly
She's just a young woman, a lovely young woman, who made it to the Olympics and was trying to win for her country. She's OURS. She was proud to be out there, representing and being good influences to other american girls looking to try out in the future.
Ibtihaj Muhammad stoic in defeat: 'I feel proud to represent Team USA'
If Donald Trump needs a reminder she stood in a hallway beneath the arena’s stands early Monday afternoon, her eyes wide and clear, her voice strong and words firm. She didn’t scream, she didn’t plead, she didn’t cry. She simply said: “I feel proud to represent Team USA even in defeat.”
She was here to fence, which is what got lost on the way to her first Olympics. In any other Games she would have been another 30-year-old woman from New Jersey, a mild curiosity as the first American female fencer to compete in a hijab. Her loss would have been a small note on NBC. Mostly her face would have disappeared in the montage of head shots the US Olympic Committee publishes of all 554 athletes who are here, barely recognizable in the mosaic that is America.
But the spring of Donald Trump has melded into the summer of Donald Trump and the words spilling from the campaign back home have made Ibtihaj Muhammad more than just another athlete on just another US Olympic team. She has become one of the best symbols against intolerance America can ever have.
“It’s almost like how can you not see that Muslims are like any other group?” she said on Monday. “We are conservative, we are liberal. There are women who cover, there are women who don’t. There are African American Muslims, there are white Muslims, there are Arab Muslims. There are so many different types of Muslims. So many Muslim countries have women as heads of state. And there are things I want people to be aware of. I want people to not see just those women but also Muslim women who participate in sports. The Saudi Arabian team, the Kuwaiti team and now the American team.”
Muhammad had a message even in her loss. The Olympics, she said, are bigger than her, bigger than any personal ambition or childhood dream. Monday wasn’t about her performance, it was about standing before the world and saying that her pursuit is as important as anybody else’s, that a loss should be a victory for so many other people who don’t have the luxury of competing in an Olympics.
“I think that anyone who has paid attention to the news would know the importance of having a Muslim woman on Team USA,” she said. “Again, it’s not just any team, it’s the United States of America. In light of all the political fuss that we hear about, all these things I feel like kind of circle back to my presence on Team USA. And again, it’s challenging those misconceptions that people have about who the Muslim woman is.”
She was asked what those misconceptions are.
“That someone is forcing me to wear this hijab,” she said. “That I’m oppressed. That I don’t have a voice. Anyone who knows me knows that I’m vert vocal, very verbal, and very comfortable expressing myself. I’ve always ben like that. I remember being told that I shouldn’t fence as a kid because I was black, and it’s like why? I want to fence, and this is what I want to do.”
She said her parents never said her religion or gender should stop her from doing what she wanted. Her father Eugene, a former cop, pushed his kids in sports like any other American father who wanted a family of athletes. He never wanted his daughters to feel they couldn’t compete because they wore clothes that were different from the kids at Columbia High School. He found his girls fencing for the same reason he found his son football. She chased her brother through their backyard pool and across sports fields all over town. She wants other girls to feel they can do the same.
I couldn't care less about any woman who practices a faith where women are treated like garbage, she used the Olympics as a platform politically and religiously
Amazing...celebrate an American athlete in the Olympics and you get labeled an "Islam appeaser"
Celebrate? What are we celebrating? She lost.
She, and her team are still our athletes. Does that only apply to the winners?
I guess that means something in the world of everyone gets a trophy.
Was watching women's foil today and there was no big deal made about our fencers outside of the fact that they were americans. They, unlike Mohammed, put their country first and competed. Mohammed decided it was more important to put the focus on her oppressive muzzie hood instead of putting the focus on our country.
No wonder she lost.
Not at all. I don't believe in participation trophies. But it IS an achievement to merely get to the Olympics. They aren't ordinary athletes.
People should have the freedom to wear symbols of their religion openly, without fear of attack.
and definitely proud to be there representing and being good influences to other american girls looking to try out in the future. They made some very nice statements to that fact. I loved what they said.These are athletes, they went to represent the USA and compete....not to whine and play the victim card.
What has she actually said and who made the big fuss about her wearing a hijab? The media. Muhammad out - but media won't let hijab-wearing American go quietly
She's just a young woman, a lovely young woman, who made it to the Olympics and was trying to win for her country. She's OURS. She was proud to be out there, representing and being good influences to other american girls looking to try out in the future.
Ibtihaj Muhammad stoic in defeat: 'I feel proud to represent Team USA'
If Donald Trump needs a reminder she stood in a hallway beneath the arena’s stands early Monday afternoon, her eyes wide and clear, her voice strong and words firm. She didn’t scream, she didn’t plead, she didn’t cry. She simply said: “I feel proud to represent Team USA even in defeat.”
She was here to fence, which is what got lost on the way to her first Olympics. In any other Games she would have been another 30-year-old woman from New Jersey, a mild curiosity as the first American female fencer to compete in a hijab. Her loss would have been a small note on NBC. Mostly her face would have disappeared in the montage of head shots the US Olympic Committee publishes of all 554 athletes who are here, barely recognizable in the mosaic that is America.
But the spring of Donald Trump has melded into the summer of Donald Trump and the words spilling from the campaign back home have made Ibtihaj Muhammad more than just another athlete on just another US Olympic team. She has become one of the best symbols against intolerance America can ever have.
“It’s almost like how can you not see that Muslims are like any other group?” she said on Monday. “We are conservative, we are liberal. There are women who cover, there are women who don’t. There are African American Muslims, there are white Muslims, there are Arab Muslims. There are so many different types of Muslims. So many Muslim countries have women as heads of state. And there are things I want people to be aware of. I want people to not see just those women but also Muslim women who participate in sports. The Saudi Arabian team, the Kuwaiti team and now the American team.”
Muhammad had a message even in her loss. The Olympics, she said, are bigger than her, bigger than any personal ambition or childhood dream. Monday wasn’t about her performance, it was about standing before the world and saying that her pursuit is as important as anybody else’s, that a loss should be a victory for so many other people who don’t have the luxury of competing in an Olympics.
“I think that anyone who has paid attention to the news would know the importance of having a Muslim woman on Team USA,” she said. “Again, it’s not just any team, it’s the United States of America. In light of all the political fuss that we hear about, all these things I feel like kind of circle back to my presence on Team USA. And again, it’s challenging those misconceptions that people have about who the Muslim woman is.”
She was asked what those misconceptions are.
“That someone is forcing me to wear this hijab,” she said. “That I’m oppressed. That I don’t have a voice. Anyone who knows me knows that I’m vert vocal, very verbal, and very comfortable expressing myself. I’ve always ben like that. I remember being told that I shouldn’t fence as a kid because I was black, and it’s like why? I want to fence, and this is what I want to do.”
She said her parents never said her religion or gender should stop her from doing what she wanted. Her father Eugene, a former cop, pushed his kids in sports like any other American father who wanted a family of athletes. He never wanted his daughters to feel they couldn’t compete because they wore clothes that were different from the kids at Columbia High School. He found his girls fencing for the same reason he found his son football. She chased her brother through their backyard pool and across sports fields all over town. She wants other girls to feel they can do the same.
I couldn't care less about any woman who practices a faith where women are treated like garbage, she used the Olympics as a platform politically and religiously
So you say. I think she was just another athlete fulfilling her dream. But make it what you will.
and definitely proud to be there representing and being good influences to other american girls looking to try out in the future. They made some very nice statements to that fact. I loved what they said.These are athletes, they went to represent the USA and compete....not to whine and play the victim card.
What has she actually said and who made the big fuss about her wearing a hijab? The media. Muhammad out - but media won't let hijab-wearing American go quietly
She's just a young woman, a lovely young woman, who made it to the Olympics and was trying to win for her country. She's OURS. She was proud to be out there, representing and being good influences to other american girls looking to try out in the future.
Ibtihaj Muhammad stoic in defeat: 'I feel proud to represent Team USA'
If Donald Trump needs a reminder she stood in a hallway beneath the arena’s stands early Monday afternoon, her eyes wide and clear, her voice strong and words firm. She didn’t scream, she didn’t plead, she didn’t cry. She simply said: “I feel proud to represent Team USA even in defeat.”
She was here to fence, which is what got lost on the way to her first Olympics. In any other Games she would have been another 30-year-old woman from New Jersey, a mild curiosity as the first American female fencer to compete in a hijab. Her loss would have been a small note on NBC. Mostly her face would have disappeared in the montage of head shots the US Olympic Committee publishes of all 554 athletes who are here, barely recognizable in the mosaic that is America.
But the spring of Donald Trump has melded into the summer of Donald Trump and the words spilling from the campaign back home have made Ibtihaj Muhammad more than just another athlete on just another US Olympic team. She has become one of the best symbols against intolerance America can ever have.
“It’s almost like how can you not see that Muslims are like any other group?” she said on Monday. “We are conservative, we are liberal. There are women who cover, there are women who don’t. There are African American Muslims, there are white Muslims, there are Arab Muslims. There are so many different types of Muslims. So many Muslim countries have women as heads of state. And there are things I want people to be aware of. I want people to not see just those women but also Muslim women who participate in sports. The Saudi Arabian team, the Kuwaiti team and now the American team.”
Muhammad had a message even in her loss. The Olympics, she said, are bigger than her, bigger than any personal ambition or childhood dream. Monday wasn’t about her performance, it was about standing before the world and saying that her pursuit is as important as anybody else’s, that a loss should be a victory for so many other people who don’t have the luxury of competing in an Olympics.
“I think that anyone who has paid attention to the news would know the importance of having a Muslim woman on Team USA,” she said. “Again, it’s not just any team, it’s the United States of America. In light of all the political fuss that we hear about, all these things I feel like kind of circle back to my presence on Team USA. And again, it’s challenging those misconceptions that people have about who the Muslim woman is.”
She was asked what those misconceptions are.
“That someone is forcing me to wear this hijab,” she said. “That I’m oppressed. That I don’t have a voice. Anyone who knows me knows that I’m vert vocal, very verbal, and very comfortable expressing myself. I’ve always ben like that. I remember being told that I shouldn’t fence as a kid because I was black, and it’s like why? I want to fence, and this is what I want to do.”
She said her parents never said her religion or gender should stop her from doing what she wanted. Her father Eugene, a former cop, pushed his kids in sports like any other American father who wanted a family of athletes. He never wanted his daughters to feel they couldn’t compete because they wore clothes that were different from the kids at Columbia High School. He found his girls fencing for the same reason he found his son football. She chased her brother through their backyard pool and across sports fields all over town. She wants other girls to feel they can do the same.
I couldn't care less about any woman who practices a faith where women are treated like garbage, she used the Olympics as a platform politically and religiously
So you say. I think she was just another athlete fulfilling her dream. But make it what you will.
Listen sister, or whatever you identify as, no one gives a rat's ass what you wear. Just don't think it has to be celebrated, OK?
Amazing...celebrate an American athlete in the Olympics and you get labeled an "Islam appeaser"
Celebrate? What are we celebrating? She lost.
She, and her team are still our athletes. Does that only apply to the winners?
I guess that means something in the world of everyone gets a trophy.
Was watching women's foil today and there was no big deal made about our fencers outside of the fact that they were americans. They, unlike Mohammed, put their country first and competed. Mohammed decided it was more important to put the focus on her oppressive muzzie hood instead of putting the focus on our country.
No wonder she lost.
Not at all. I don't believe in participation trophies. But it IS an achievement to merely get to the Olympics. They aren't ordinary athletes.
People should have the freedom to wear symbols of their religion openly, without fear of attack.
Jewish women wear a wig. That's not even close to the same thing. Loads of women wear wigs for various reasons some just like to change their hair style.
My wife is Russian orthodox and she wears a scarf in church. When she leaves church she takes it off. She still maintains her religious traditions without making a spectacle and drawing attention.
Now to the religious freedom comment: When you are part of a team you conform to the uniform. Part of being part of team is giving up your individuality so you can work as a team. The fact that you don't understand this is amazing.
