Posted on 09/16/2026 12:13:10 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
Houston Texans linebacker Azeez Al-Shaair was fined $11,492 for putting an unauthorized message in his eye black during the Texans’ loss to the Bills on Sunday.
The radical Al-Shaair wrote the words “Hind Rajab” across his eye black to honor a five-year-old Palestinian girl who was killed during a military engagement in Gaza in 2024.
Texans’ Azeez Al-Shaair Fined for Memorializing the Death of a Palestinian Girl on His Eye Black Jack Gorman_Getty Images (1)Jack Gorman/Getty Images Warner Todd Huston16 Sep 2026108 3:06 Houston Texans linebacker Azeez Al-Shaair was fined $11,492 for putting an unauthorized message in his eye black during the Texans’ loss to the Bills on Sunday.
The radical Al-Shaair wrote the words “Hind Rajab” across his eye black to honor a five-year-old Palestinian girl who was killed during a military engagement in Gaza in 2024.
Al-Shaair was not fined for the message’s content. However, he did not get permission from the league before including the girl’s name in his eye black, and the fine was for an unauthorized message, as the league tightly controls the messages players can display during games.
As Yahoo Sports noted, Al-Shaair was not the only player to be fined for appearance-related issues. For instance, David Montgomery was fined for an unauthorized logo on his cleats, and Trent Brown got a hit because his socks didn’t cover his lower leg.
The girl Al-Shaair memorialized died in 2024 after Israeli Defense Forces fired on a car her family was driving in Gaza.
The radical Muslim player has been fined for unauthorized eye black messaging before. In January, he wore a message reading “stop the genocide.”
Azeez Al-Shaair, a practicing Muslim with a long history of dirty play, wore the eye black both during the game and in post-game interviews.
.....
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Didn't they see the ad? "Sports. Just sports. (nope; you won't get to see my bozongos, boys) just sports.
His grief is because in one year she would have been old enough for a muslim to marry!
I read the title three times. He did what?
“as the league tightly controls the messages players can display during games” News to me, but then I don’t watch so...
They jump around a gyrate like idiots stop that as well.
what the hell is an Eye Black?
Al-Shaair is a real Texan name, lol.
Players put black stuff on their eyes to minimize glare. So he wrote a political message on his eye black. BFD. Dead Palestinian girls are sad. But playing monday morning quarterbacks and virtue signaling about it is merely stupid.
It’s the strip of black eye stuff below the eye to control the sun’s reflection. Years ago Tim Tebow used them to promote John 3:16, and it caused all sorts of tsuris, as someone else here would say.
it dawned on me about 30 milliseconds after I hit post! Thanks for the reply though!!
Just horrific 😫
Howcome leftards don’t have a problem with the white sheets and hoods?
Too much like war. Not into it at all, or any other sport either, for that matter. Too much ball abuse. Kicking balls, throwing them through hoops, hitting them with sticks ‘til they go somewhere they wouldn’t otherwise want to. Leave those balls alone, hockey puck!
Imagine if the internet was around when Spain took back its territory from Islam. Every child of the invaders who died during the Reconquista would be put all over people’s screens, decrying the Spanish “genocide” of the “oppressed” Nasrid Arabs, who had been “living peacefully” for over 700 years.
No missiles and firebombs and drones. Oh, my. Nope. Not a single one since 2005. Hamas was too busy throwing Fatah supporters, homos, Christians and dissenters off the roofs of tall buildings. Natch./s
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.