Posted on 10/24/2005 6:40:12 PM PDT by markedmannerf
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - After zooming from anonymity into the hearts of her nation in just 10 months, India's teenage tennis sensation Sania Mirza was caught up in a cultural protest for breaking the mold by being a Muslim athlete.
The 18-year-old Mirza has surmounted religious barriers to surge from 206th in the women's world rankings last December to 34th this week.
Her rise has not gone unnoticed by radical Islamic clerics in largely Hindu but officially secular India, home to some 130 million Muslims.
Mirza was given extra security last month after an Islamic cleric denounced her for wearing short skirts and sleeveless shirts on court and threatened to stop her playing in a WTA event in Kolkata.
Other Muslim groups denounced the edict, with a Madrassas (Islamic schools) board in an eastern Indian state even saying it planned to insert a chapter on Mirza into its school books.
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She is beautiful and ready to say goodbye to Mo and Allah.
Damn! She's hot...!
Damn! She's hot...!
It is so ironic to hear all these liberal feminazis condemning the "opression" of women in western societies while under the guise of multiculturalism promoting the existence of radical Islam.
You wenches would be the FIRST ones to see what a man could do to you with a hardwood rod a little smaller than the diameter of his thumb. Come to think of it.....
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