10 June 2011

What's sauce for the goose...

These two messages from two branches of female sports are in Hebrew, but the gist is:

The court of appeals of the international basketball association rejected an appeal by Israeli basketball association to allow Naama Shafir, a member of Israeli national team to play with a long-sleeved shirt under the standard jersey. The request was made due to Naama being religious...
The Iranian female football team was punished by a technical loss in its game with Jordan. The decision was made due to Iranian team members appearing for the game in hijabs.
So... yeah, reach your own conclusion. Oh, and another thing: the first article carries a picture of Naama:

While the second article offers only a generic female mannequin in a hijab:

Which is, strictly speaking, unfair to the readers. Oh well...

4 comments:

Dick Stanley said...

Naama's "modesty garment" is in the nature of a fig leaf since it hardly covers anything. Methinks her "rav" is trying to f*** with the game. Glad to see the Iranians forfeit the game for their stunt.

SnoopyTheGoon said...

Yeah, the good rabbi is probably unhappy with her playing at all.

Yitzchak Goodman said...

Angry Arab weighs in:

http://angryarab.blogspot.com/2011/06/if-she-was-muslim-she-would-be-mocked.html

SnoopyTheGoon said...

He is still sick, and it's fatal in his case.