Kareem the Dream? WashPost Lauds NBA Legend's 'Vital, Dynamic' Liberal Voice on Race and Islam

MRC Newsbusters ^ | March 1, 2015 | Time Graham

[Maceman]

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The Sunday Washington Post boosted NBA legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar as a writer for Time magazine and a “new kind of public intellectual.” So what’s a little funny by the time you read through this puff piece is this: Where are the actual quotes from his political and religious commentary? There aren’t any.

Post reporter Geoff Edgers wrote under the headline “Showtime for a mover and a Laker.” One reason they're so positive? Abdul-Jabbar is arguing that you can't blame Islam for radical Islamist terrorism, that ISIS is to Muslims what the KKK is to Christians.

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[Snickering Hound]

[Texas Eagle]

From Lew's Wikipedia page:

Along with playing basketball, Alcindor earned a Bachelor of Arts with a major in history from UCLA in 1969.

Must've been an honorary degree.

[tanknetter]

What’s amusing is that Kareem is appropriating a nearly 15-year old argument made by Conservatives following 9-11 to support the use of the terms Islamist and Islamism.

[CMAC51]

For accuracy’s sake, it was “Dean the Dream” Meminger.

I think the Basketball Hall of Fame would more likely say it was Hakeem "the Dream" Olajuwan.

[gorush]

"I think the Basketball Hall of Fame would more likely say it was Hakeem "the Dream" Olajuwan."

Well, they'd be wrong. The appelation was first applied to Meminger. :{)

[driftless2]

I remember back in those days when many black athletes were converting to Islam and changing their "slave" names. I wonder how many of them actually became real Muslims and followed all the rules? I believe most of them did because many others were doing it and it was a way to stick whitey.

I read Alcindor-Abdul Jabbar's bio when he was just out of college. It revealed a very angry young man...angry at whites and angry at his country. It appears he's mellowed over the years, but I could never really cheer for him after reading that bio. Even as a resident of Wisconsin when he led the Bucks to a title, it was difficult to cheer for someone who hates you because you're white.

I recall his dismay when he heard he'd been drafted by Milwaukee. "Farmers" was his exclamation. He thought everybody in Wisconsin was a farmer. Including I guess the 700, 000 residents of Milwaukee. All farmers.

[elcid1970]

Wisconsin is indeed a state of farmers, hunters, & fishermen.

Except in Milwaukee & Racine where it’s mostly liberals.

As for athletes with Islamicized names, following the 1967 Six Day War, Cassius Clay considered changing his name from Muhammad Ali to Morris Steinberg.

[Maceman]

Must've been an honorary degree.

Nah. They've been teaching this lefty crap in college since then.

I know. I was a college sophomore in 1969.