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Muslim-American Olympian Criticizes her Country
Frontpagemagazine ^ | August 9, 2016 | Joseph Klein

Posted on 08/09/2016 4:50:10 AM PDT by SJackson

Muslim-American Olympian Criticizes her Country

How Ibtihaj Muhammad describes life in America for Muslims.

A Muslim-American woman competing in the 2016 Olympics in Rio, Ibtihaj Muhammad, made history as the first American Olympic participant to wear a hijab while competing. The fencer won her first round, then lost in a second round. She is due to take part in a team competition later on during the Olympics. However, with all the media attention she has received to date for wearing the hijab and speaking out as a Muslim advocate against her country’s treatment of Muslims as well as against Donald Trump, you would think she had already won the gold.

Rather than focus on the fact that she was representing America as part of Team USA, Ms. Muhammad chose to distance herself from her fellow Americans. Before the competition even began, she complained about not feeling safe in America because she was a Muslim. She has been whining about how she feels threatened because of her faith, and has politicized the Olympic Games with derogatory comments regarding Donald Trump’s candidacy for president.

Considering that “anti-Semitic crimes accounted for roughly 60 percent of religious hate crimes last year,” according to a 2015 Washington Post report, and “anti-Muslim crimes now make up about 13 percent of religiously-motivated hate crimes,” the Jewish-American Olympic competitors would have had more reason to speak out about not feeling safe in America. However, they are in Rio to compete for the gold on behalf of their country, not to trash it.

"I wish that, not just my life, but the lives of Muslims all over the world were a little bit easier, particularly in the United States,” Ms. Muhammad was quoted by the Associated Press as saying after arriving in Rio for the competition.  (Emphasis added.) “I'm hoping that with my first-time appearance as a member of Team USA here at the Olympics, I'm hoping that the rhetoric around the Muslim community will change."

This is a woman who had the opportunity to meet with President Obama and even offer the First Lady a fencing lesson. Indeed, Ibtihaj Muhammad has lived the American dream. She graduated from a top school, Duke University, where she attended on a scholarship. To fund her ambitions to become a world class fencer, she worked as a substitute teacher and fencing coach. She also founded her own clothing line Louella. And she has gotten some big name corporate endorsements. She missed qualifying for the 2012 Olympics, but continued working hard to make the 2016 team, which, to her credit, she succeeded in doing.

Explaining her primary motivation for going after a spot on the 2016 team, Ibtihaj Muhammad focused on her attachment to the Muslim community, not simply on the honor to represent America. She said, "When I heard that there had never been a Muslim woman on the U.S. team to wear the hijab, that is when I made this conscious decision to go for 2016.” She added: “I am excited to represent not just myself, my family and my country - but also the greater Muslim community."

If Ms. Muhammad were truly interested in representing “the greater Muslim community,” she should use her celebrity status to speak out against the atrocious living conditions of women in Saudi Arabia, Iran and other Muslim majority countries. 

Did Ms. Muhammad by chance have the opportunity to speak with any of the very few female competitors from Saudi Arabia, for example? That devout Muslim country discriminates against its own female population, all under the banner of Islam’s sharia law. It is allowing just four women athletes to compete in the Olympics this year, after having received an ultimatum from Olympic authorities in 2012. At home in Saudi Arabia, women are not even allowed to attend national team competitions as spectators, let alone participate in any tournaments or state organized sports leagues of their own. "Our society can be very conservative," said Prince Fahad bin Jalawi al-Saud, a consultant to the Saudi Olympic Committee. "It has a hard time accepting that women can compete in sports."

More generally, there is strict gender segregation in Saudi Arabia. And merely wearing a hijab head cover would not be enough to keep a woman out of trouble for dressing too immodestly. 

In commenting on the recent spate of Islamic terrorism, Ms. Muhammad blamed it on an “unhealthy situation” caused by “(M)isunderstanding of religion, of what different societies need in order to thrive.” It would appear that Ms. Muhammad has a basic misunderstanding of the doctrines in her own religion that have fueled violent jihad around the world.

As an example of political correctness run amok, there was mounting pressure on Michael Phelps, who was elected by his teammates to serve as flag bearer in the opening ceremonies of the Olympics, to decline the honor in favor of Ibtihaj Muhammad, who came in second in the voting. Various media outlets called for Phelps to yield. Perhaps the most ridiculous article was a CNN op-ed piece addressed to Phelps by W. Kamau Bell, in which the author says that “America has enough tall, successful, rich white guys hogging the spotlight” and that “Muhammad carrying the flag would be nearly a one-stop inclusion shop.”

The Olympics should be all about sports competition for the top prize based on merit. It should not be about religious faiths or domestic politics. Phelps, the most decorated Olympian of all time, earned the honor to carry the flag on behalf of the United States. Muhammad has not earned that honor, unless being Muslim, wearing a hijab while competing and trashing her country constitute the new standard of “excellence.”



TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2016olympics; muslimamericans; muslimwomen; teamusa
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To: SJackson

Then get the hell out of America.


41 posted on 08/09/2016 5:43:50 AM PDT by mulligan (I)
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To: Lil Flower
Michael Phelps carried the flag, ignoring the politically correct idiots who wanted him to pass this great honor to a Muslim who had never won an Olympic medal):


42 posted on 08/09/2016 5:43:55 AM PDT by Enchante (Hillary's new campaign slogan: "Guilty as hell, free as a bird!! Laws are for peasants!")
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To: ilovesarah2012
America should put a stop to Muslims immigrating to the USA Deport all Muslims!

Islam is the enemy


43 posted on 08/09/2016 5:45:11 AM PDT by Democrat_media ( Only Trump will stop TPP and China and the socialist illegals' invasion of the USA w Wall!)
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To: SJackson
she complained about not feeling safe in America because she was a Muslim.

As opposed to not feeling safe in America because of Muslims. It's a subtle difference.

44 posted on 08/09/2016 5:45:48 AM PDT by Hardastarboard (This is the legacy of Hillary Clinton: Death, destruction, terrorism and weakness.)
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To: SJackson

In 1968 two US track athletes were stripped of their medals and kicked off the team for this.

In 2016 she’ll probably get to carry the flag at the closing ceremonies and be named TIME’s Person of the Year.


45 posted on 08/09/2016 5:46:43 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: SJackson

Has ISIS declared she is one of their own yet?


46 posted on 08/09/2016 5:47:12 AM PDT by showme_the_Glory ((ILLEGAL: prohibited by law. ALIEN: Owing political allegiance to another country or government))
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To: Right Wing Assault

This woman, who enjoys one of the most privileged lives on earth, dares to go to the Olympic Games and criticize the country which has given her every opportunity. She is scum.

She ought to try living in any of the 57 Islam-dominated countries, especially any of the hellholes like Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, etc. Let her find out the hell-on-earth for women that Islam has created. Hundreds of millions of girls and women live lives of grotesque servitude and oppression due to Islam, and she takes the Olympic stage to attack America. Screw her and the hijab, too.


47 posted on 08/09/2016 5:47:16 AM PDT by Enchante (Hillary's new campaign slogan: "Guilty as hell, free as a bird!! Laws are for peasants!")
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To: SJackson

The Infiltration is Compete.


48 posted on 08/09/2016 5:49:03 AM PDT by Big Red Badger (UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
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To: SJackson
I noticed the USA team had her up front and highly visible during the opening ceremony.

49 posted on 08/09/2016 5:49:35 AM PDT by RightField
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To: Enchante

Glad to hear she is almost done - NBC would have had us believe she was THE story of the Olympics, to fit their narrative.
No doubt if she stays in Rio, they will push her up to the front row of the closing ceremony march, despite her performance.
Ungrateful wretch.


50 posted on 08/09/2016 5:51:39 AM PDT by GnuThere
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To: relictele
Except for Michael Phelps and the gymnasts this malcontent - a fencer, no less - has been given a surfeit of airtime.

Michael Phelps, Katie Ledecky, and the gymnasts have earned their airtime. Mizz Terrorist Mohammedan has not. Others, like Virginia Thrasher, have earned airtime and not gotten it.

51 posted on 08/09/2016 5:52:26 AM PDT by NorthMountain (Hillary Clinton: corrupt unreliable negligent traitor)
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To: RightField
Another view. She was on camera quite a bit during the team's entrance into the stadium.

52 posted on 08/09/2016 5:53:10 AM PDT by RightField
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To: Enchante
She is not a muslim-American. She is either an American or a muslim. Since there book states that a muslim owes allegiance only to allah, that leaves the American part out. Jesus Himself said, A man cannot serve two masters....
53 posted on 08/09/2016 5:55:28 AM PDT by sport
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To: TheConservativeBanker

Revoke the B!&^%*’s passport and leave her in RIO!! F%$k her.


54 posted on 08/09/2016 6:00:13 AM PDT by bestrongbpositive
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To: SJackson

What a putz and ingrate. To top it off she lost. Bwahahahaha. People like this should be exiled if they are a citizen of the USA. Oh, by the way...moozlums suck.


55 posted on 08/09/2016 6:02:04 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
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To: SJackson
"I wish that, not just my life, but the lives of Muslims all over the world were a little bit easier, particularly in the United States,” Ms. Muhammad was quoted by the Associated Press as saying after arriving in Rio for the competition. (Emphasis added.) “I'm hoping that with my first-time appearance as a member of Team USA here at the Olympics, I'm hoping that the rhetoric around the Muslim community will change."

Ungrateful, lying wench.

3,000 dead Americans in one day is why Islam has to change, not America.

56 posted on 08/09/2016 6:03:16 AM PDT by exit82 (Road Runner sez:" Let's Make America Beeping Great Again! Beep! Beep!")
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To: SJackson

Anyone who pledges allegiance to that cult has automatically denied his/her American citizenship, and should be sent back to where they came from.


57 posted on 08/09/2016 6:05:47 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Lying Media: willing and eager allies of the hate-America left.)
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To: ThomasMore
Typical "Muzzie" with blade in had... surprise she was't screaming out "Allahu Akbar"

Interesting composition in that there photograph. A Muslim holding a sword, ready to strike, in one hand, and the severed head of America in the other. Yes, I know it's just her protective headgear, but really, they couldn't have her holding the headgear tucked under her arm and upright? No they have her giving a guttural yell, sword at the ready, and the headgear upside down as if it were a trophy...

58 posted on 08/09/2016 6:06:01 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (Warning: This post has little to do with reality, and nothing to do with polite society.)
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To: SJackson

She was born in New Jersey in 1985. It is hard to find where her parents are originally from.

Seems she is a typical African American Mooslimb convert with a huge chip on her shoulder. Just like the two occupants in he White Hut.


59 posted on 08/09/2016 6:06:17 AM PDT by Flavious_Maximus
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To: SJackson

Then go back to the Middle East.


60 posted on 08/09/2016 6:10:13 AM PDT by Lopeover (2016 Election is about allegiance to the United States!)
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