Muslim Tennis Star Sania Mirza Forced to Cancel India Tour
Muslim tennis star Sania Mirza wore a T-shirt at the US Open with the slogan, "Well Behaved Women Rarely Make History."
Muslim tennis star Sania Mirza has pulled out of her tournaments in India due to concerns over the "criticism" (threats) she gets when she plays in her home country.
Mirza has been threatened throughout her career because she insists on playing professional tennis in professional tennis clothes and does not keep her flesh covered during her backhand returns.
The Religion of Peace and The Telegraph reported:
Indian tennis player Sania Mirza has disappointed fans by pulling out of all of her home tournaments this year due to the controversy they generate.Previously:
The 21-year-old has declared she was advised by her manager not to take part in the Bangalore Open next month because of the criticism she encounters when playing in India.
"A lot has been happening in the last few months, everytime I have played in India there has been some kind of problem so we just thought it was better not to play at this point," the star told reporters in Hyderabad on Monday.
As a Muslim player, Mirza has reportedly been condemned by Islamic groups over her attire on the court, with her short tennis skirts coming under particular scrutiny.
The star has become something of a flag-bearer for Muslim sportswomen, being seen last year playing in T-shirts bearing slogans of defiance such as "Well Behaved Women Rarely Make History".
"As long as I'm winning, people shouldn't care whether my skirt is six inches or six feet long," she said at the time.
But she has also revealed that she has sometimes thought about ending her playing career.
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posted by Gateway Pundit at 2/07/2008 04:04:00 AM
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another addition to the "first they came for" list..
hmm, think i went about this bass ackwards.. it would be much easier to keep a list of what they won't be coming for..
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On the one hand, I think her comment about "as long as I'm winning it doesn't matter..." is consistent with people who don't want to take responsibility for their own actions or don't have the intellectual capacity to think beyond, "Why can't I do whatever I want?" Setting the religious issues aside, good taste has bounds, and it DOES matter if her "skirt is six inches". We came to watch tennis. A six inch skirt would be a strip tease.
On the other hand - and I'm speaking as a Muslim myself, here - I think that there is room for tasteful attire for women that is appropriate for tennis as well. Tennis is about the game. It's a contest of skill and endurance. Rather than trying to make it about sex vs. modesty, I think we Muslims should focus on her success as an athlete or, at the very least, not allow ourselves to be distracted by such trivial things. It bothers me that people of my faith go around actually threatening people over things like this. There are far, far more important things to worry about, and it just makes us all look petty and stupid.
I applaud her skill as a tennis player, I hope she chooses to dress as modestly as possible (within what's practical for tennis), and I wish her strength in dealing with this sort of nonsense.
And I love that t-shirt.
--Concerned Muslim Man from Missouri
Dear,Friend
Sania Mirza is a Indian tennis player. She was born in Mumbai & now lives in Hyderabad.
Coached by her father Imran Mirza, she began playing tennis at the age of six, turning
professional in 2003. She was the highest ranked female tennis player ever from India,
with career high rankings of number 31 in singles & 24 in doubles.
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