Posted on 05/20/2013 10:38:09 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
Oday Aboushi leads a double life. On the one hand, he is an American football player with professional-level athletic skills. On the other, he is a fundamentalist Muslim with radical associations and a heritage that pushes him towards a destructive world of violence and hate.
When the New York Jets football team chose Oday Aboushi with the eighth pick of the fifth round of the April 2013 NFL Draft (141st pick overall), the organization knew that it was getting an elite player who could wreak havoc on the field – one of the top offensive linemen in the entire draft. At 6-foot-5, 310 pounds, no doubt, Abousi is an imposing figure. What the Jets didn't know, though, was the type of havoc he could potentially cause off the field.
Although Aboushi was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, he proudly refers to himself as a "Palestinian-American." His parents both arrived in the U.S. from the town of Beit Hanina in the West Bank. The first time he had been to the area was during his freshman year of college. In an article published by ESPN, the sports network stated about Aboushi's trip, "It was a completely different world, although filled with the same kinds of people he knew growing up in Brooklyn."
One long-time friend of the family is Linda Sarsour, a rabid anti-Israel activist, who has Hamas-related family serving prison sentences in Israel and has herself been questioned by U.S. authorities. Less than one year ago, Sarsour posted on her Twitter account, "Nothing is creepier than Zionism." In a May 2012 tweet, she claimed that the al-Qaeda "Underwear Bomber," Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who plotted to blow up a civilian aircraft, was actually a CIA operative.
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I wonder if my high school is still proud of him. They touted the fact that he was drafted by the Jets.
Where did you get that statistic? I thought about 15 rookies made the squad each year in each team. The average NFL tenure is only four years, there is huge turnover.
The “pigskin” is made of cowhide.
Bingo! The Jets dump Tebow and pick up a rabid anti-semite. And the Jets are a New York team, a city with more Jews than any in the world. The jets management make the folks at Coca Cola, who brought out New Coke look like geniuses.
And it only took twelve years after Sept.11th for the country to reach this point. Amazing, isn't it.
If he was, he wouldn't have been chosen in the fifth round of the draft.
Chances are, based on his fifth round status, that he won't have much - if any - of a pro football career. Even if he does "make it," offensive linemen generally aren't very well known.
By speaking out in favor of the Palis and against Israel, he might be trying to set up a discrimination suit in the likely event he doesn't make the team.
What a creep.
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