Fatwa for tennis star who wears short skirts (Religion Of Peace update)

The Telegraph (U.K.) ^ | September 9, 2005 | Peter Foster

[Stoat]

Fatwa for tennis star who wears short skirts
By Peter Foster in New Delhi
(Filed: 10/09/2005)

India's leading female tennis player has been subjected to a fatwa by a Muslim cleric for wearing short skirts and revealing tops on the international tennis circuit.

Sania Mirza comes from a devout Muslim family

Sania Mirza, 18, who became the first Indian woman to reach the fourth round of a Grand Slam at the US Open last week, is hugely popular in India.

The fatwa - in effect, a demand that she cover up - was issued by a senior cleric of the Sunni Ulema Board, a little-known group. Similar fatwas have been issued against Mirza, who comes from a devout Muslim family, but none has ever gained popular support among India's 130 million Muslims.

"The dress she wears on the tennis courts…leaves nothing to the imagination," Haseeb-ul-hasan Siddiqui told The Hindustan Times. "She will undoubtedly be a corrupting influence."

He said she should follow the example of Iranian women who wore long tunics and headscarves to play in the Asian Badminton Championships.

[Rummyfan]

Who's that on the far right?

A billion people, five hundred million women, that means at least a million or two of them have to be beautiful!

[najida]

Like I posted on another thread,
there is nothing prettier in woman's dressing than a saree.

[Alas Babylon!]

Questioning the very rights of clerics, Raksha from Chicago raises her voice, "Doesn't Islamic scholarship have issues like violence, suicide bombing of innocents, poverty, injustice that they are preoccupied about short or long clothes of a girl who brings athletic credit and glory to India and the Muslims."

Truth to power, Raksha!!!!!!

[TXnMA]

"She is wearing better dress than many of the female tennis players on the court. ..."

Yep.

Behold the competition...

[CarrotAndStick]

Who's that on the far right?

Kareena Kapoor.

[mvpel]

Sania Mirza comes from a devout Muslim family...

Obviously not too devout...

[Enterprise]

I remember reading an article which depicted the suffereing their women go through in the heat. They damn near suffocate.

[Fred Nerks]

TENNIS ANYONE?

[69ConvertibleFirebird]

Whoa! Those extraordinarily large ballasts on the front of her must give her fits with the sudden stop and go sport of tennis. And all of that bouncing....

[moog]

But show him a picture of a small boy or a goat, hubba hubba!

Now that's funny.

[69ConvertibleFirebird]

The mole people...

[GVnana]

Sania Mirza has gone further in tennis than any other Indian player. I hope she inspires an entire generation.

[DTwistedSisterS]

Legitimate Question:

Why is it ok to have 72 virgins in Allahland when you kill people, but, to see a girl's ankles is a crime punishable by death?.... Oh.... to enslave the youth to sex, and to get them to want women......... That's how they do it...
Otherwise, I want answers.

[VeniVidiVici]

Ya know, I look at that pic of all those burqa'd women and wonder how many are really guys?

Going through the crowd, grabbing rear-ends and in a falsetto, "Oh, 'scuse me, pardon me".

Must be boring being a transvestite Muslim. Probably deserted in the caberets too.

[dfwgator]

Sania Mirza has gone further in tennis than any other Indian player

Female player, that is. I remember Vijay Armitrage was a decent player in the 70s, even managed to parlay it into a cameo appearance in a James Bond flick.

[Bombardier]

Delicious pic.....all I can say is "Yum, YUM!"

[GVnana]

How far did Vijay get in the majors, do you know? I tried a Google search on his stats, but got nothing.

[Dad yer funny]

bookmk ping #48

[Artemis Webb]

Are there any words anywhere on this thread? I haven't noticed any.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

[India's leading female tennis player has been subjected to a fatwa by a Muslim cleric for wearing short skirts and revealing tops on the international tennis circuit.]

I guess these subhuman Mullah's haven't checked out Bollywood yet.