Muslim runner disqualified for keeping her faith?

[tsugomaru]

Re: Muslim runner disqualified for keeping her faith?

Or you could study biology and invent your own dinosaurs.

~Tsugomaru

[Tokzic]

Re: Muslim runner disqualified for keeping her faith?

This story is garbage. Her religion has nothing to do with anything. She was given the option to compete without violating her beliefs. She blew it. So why is the entire story spouting about irrelevant religious crap?

[tsugomaru]

Re: Muslim runner disqualified for keeping her faith?

Because people are too stupid to read past the headline. Apparently, what they read in the headline is what the situation is about.

~Tsugomaru

[Squeek]

Re: Muslim runner disqualified for keeping her faith?

The point I was trying to make (and the analogy I should've said) is like this.

If there's no rule about using jet-propelled shoes, just because jet-propelled shoes don't exist, is it against the rules to use them? No, it isn't. Will you be disqualified for using them? Yes, you will. Why is abiding by the rules against the rules? Answer: America.

[Grandiagod]

Re: Muslim runner disqualified for keeping her faith?

Squeek, you can't possibly expect people to make up a rule for every single possibility.

[Squeek]

Re: Muslim runner disqualified for keeping her faith?

Squeek, you can't possibly expect people to make up a rule for every single possibility.

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That's my whole ****ing point.

Can you write a rulebook for every religion out there? Every cult, every sect, every branch? It's impossible.

That's why the over-arching clothing rule in place is absolute.

Here's what happened. The girl has been running at events. It just so happens that at this event, someone who has never been to one of her events before noticed her suit. Then he noticed it was a violation of the rules. Then he called her out on it. The end. Why wasn't it a problem before? Because not everyone knows every rule. Turns out this guy did. Game over, you lose.

This has nothing to do with religion.

[dore]

Re: Muslim runner disqualified for keeping her faith?

Squeek, as usual, you're being overly technical just to be argumentative. There are rules in every rulebook for every sport giving officials the right to do whatever the **** they want just because they're officials. So yes, you couldn't bring dinosaurs into a basketball game and you couldn't use rocket shoes in a track meet.

The rules were set before she custom-made her uniform. She should have read up on the rules before getting that unitard made to make sure it would be legal. Just because nobody called her out on it doesn't make it legal according to the rules.

[Squeek]

Re: Muslim runner disqualified for keeping her faith?

Oh my god

I just confirmed it

Nobody ****ing reads what I write.

[Grandiagod]

Re: Muslim runner disqualified for keeping her faith?

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That's my whole ****ing point.

Can you write a rulebook for every religion out there? Every cult, every sect, every branch? It's impossible.

That's why the over-arching clothing rule in place is absolute.

Here's what happened. The girl has been running at events. It just so happens that at this event, someone who has never been to one of her events before noticed her suit. Then he noticed it was a violation of the rules. Then he called her out on it. The end. Why wasn't it a problem before? Because not everyone knows every rule. Turns out this guy did. Game over, you lose.

This has nothing to do with religion.

Ah the way you were typing before this post made me think you were being sarcastic.

[Squeek]

Re: Muslim runner disqualified for keeping her faith?

Ah the way you were typing before this post made me think you were being sarcastic.

At first I was kind of sympathetic for the girl, but then I saw the video that correlated with the article and noticed something.

There's no legitimate excuse for why her clothes are two-toned. They make single-color running suits. Why it had to be orange and blue is beyond me, since most hide-skin-abiding Muslims wear plain white or black clothes.

[meloveulongtime]

Re: Muslim runner disqualified for keeping her faith?

Absolutely. The ref gave her the option of wearing a plain white t-shirt over her one-piece suit. But sh denied and was therefore disqualified. The news is taking this out of porportion to start contraversy and sell more papers.