Trump: Who are the Muslim American ‘sports heroes’ Obama referred to?

Washington Times ^ | 12-7-15 | David Sherfinski

[markomalley]

Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump says he wants to know what sport President Obama was talking about when the president mentioned in his Sunday address that there are Muslim-American sports heroes, and asked if the president was "profiling."

"Obama said in his speech that Muslims are our sports heroes. What sport is he talking about, and who? Is Obama profiling?" Mr. Trump tweeted early Monday morning.

[JayAr36]

He must have meant the champs of the beheading Olympics. None of the so-called Muslims I can think of were born Muslim, they decided that after feeling victimized. In other words wallowing in victim-hood like the rest of the poor put on blacks that have achieved star status and still want the label of victim. No more use for them then the BLM.

[Rummyfan]

His name is God Shamgod.... Played b-ball for Providence College.

[I want the USA back]

I don’t categorize sports heros by their religion or ideology or race. Only America-hating marxists do that, like 0bama.

[Rummyfan]

His parents - or parent - really saddled him with that moniker. If your name is ‘God’ growing up, you should be well nigh infallible!

[libertarian27]

From the speech:
Muslim Americans are our friends and our neighbors, our co-workers, our sports heroes... and, yes, they are our men and women in uniform who are willing to die in defense of our country.

All mentioned, except for sports heroes, have been terrorists.

Have any Muslim sports heroes been terrorists, yet?

[katana]

Ah, so he meant athletes who were and are so historically ignorant as to not know their ancestors capture, confinement, and sale were all managed by Muslims. That the practice is explicitly condoned by Islamic custom and law and is still happening to this day. That their more immediate ancestors' liberation was the result of a Christian movement in the 18th and 19th centuries and that their own freedom, success, and wealth derive from a very Christian principle of individual freedom and equality in the treatment of all souls.

Got it.

[Rummyfan]

Willie Mays, Bo Jackson, Jackie Robinson, Reggie Jackson, Michael Jordan and Hank Aaron were all Muslims.

Lou Gehrig and Joe DiMaggio too!

[SmokingJoe]

Mike Tyson? Didn’t he convert to Islam while serving time for rape? He is the kind of chap(violent criminal before he took to boxing, multiple felony convictions etc) who would be Obama’s hero.

[C. Edmund Wright]

Yes I know...and actually, his last name has two m’s.....and yes, he played for Providence....(interesting play on words) but no, I will not use capital G in his name.....which is why I didn’t do so.

Now I don’t know if his parents named him that, or he changed it. Either way....wow....gives me the chills thinking about it.

[Williams]

There are a lot of them, but it was the most shallow comment imaginable.

[AnAmericanMother]

I doubt it. I know Aaron and have never seen him mention that he is NOI. Pretty sure he is Southern Baptist.

So I kind of doubt the rest of it as well.

[EQAndyBuzz]

“There’s some other black athletes who converted. I can’t think of any who were born to Muslim parents and were raised in that religion.”

Ahmad Rashad. Wasn’t he a wide receiver in the NFL? Think he was married to Cosby’s TV wife.

[Williams]

Think how perverse it is that Obama spent much of his speech defending and promoting Islam.

[DoodleDawg]

Kareem Abdul-Jabar, Hakeem Olajuwon, Shaquille O’Neil, Mike Tyson, Ahmad Rashad, Husain Abdula from my own KC Chiefs.

[SmokingJoe]

Ali joined Elijah Mohammed's Nation of Islam, which is a totally different kettle of fish from Islam as practiced in the Mideast and the rest of the world. Plus both Ali and Lew Alcindor converted from Christianity more as a political protest than anything.

[FlingWingFlyer]

I think there is a one page, front and back pamphlet you can get that lists them all and their life stories.

[maggief]

Ahmad Rashad is/was Valerie Jarrett’s bf.

[petercooper]

O.J.? That would explain a lot.

[ObozoMustGo2012]

"How about this leaflet.... famous Jewish sports legends."

[jjotto]

Ahmad Rashad was raised Pentecostal and converted to a non-traditional form of Islam. He’s been married multiple times.