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Tennis Star Sania Mirza: Victim Of Religious Fanatics

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Indian tennis star Sania Mirza


Their charge against Sania Mirza is that she is not patriotic because she insulted the national flag though her did not touch the flag. Her feet were only near the flag. '
By Citizen Correspondent Samim Ahmed
Date Posted: 02/06/08
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Indian Tennis star Sania Mirza decided not to play in her country because some Orthodox people of India criticize her dress, shooting, talking, posture et cetera. Some people even question her patriotism. They don't criticize Sania’s sport, nor her fitness, but criticize her because their Fatwa is against her short skirt.

Sania did an advertisement shooting on the premises of a mosque. Muslim fatwa providers shouted that the place became unholy because of this incident. In a photograph, it was watched that Sania with her feet up near the Indian flag. Hindu fanatics filed a case against her. She is not patriotic since she is of a Muslim family. To prevent AIDS, Sania once said sex should be safe before or after marriage. Again, the Fatwa providers shouted why Sania did say sex should be safe before marriage! Pre-marital sex is crime and it is sin according to religion.

Those ignorant Indian people who are shouting about Sania Mirza’s attire do not know she is a tennis player. She can't wear a burkha on the tennis court! No outdoor games except cricket go with Islamic dress. When Muslim male footballers play in the ground, they also violate the Islamic dress code.

Even poor male and female laborers can not afford that dress or they don't wear that dress for work, and no clerics provide suggestions or solutions in those cases. In the case of Sania, she clearly answered against clerics that it is her decision what she wears.

In a mosque, everyone can enter. Sania and her associates did not go to the inside of mosque where men pray. They entered the outdoor complex for a shooting. In spite of this, how did clerics and fundamentalists accuse Sania? The beautiful and heart throb of every Indian youth Sania Mirza did not argue on this issue. Primarily she remained silent and later she apologized on this sensitive issue.

Hindu fanatics question about Sania’s patriotism. Their charge against Sania is that she is not patriotic because she insulted the national flag, though Sania did not touch the flag. Only her feet were near the flag.


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Re: Tennis Star Sania Mirza: Victim Of Religious Fanatics

By wheelsofire, August 27, 2008 at 11:44

Thank you for this story, which I have seen elsewhere before it sank from view.
Sadly, religious fanaticism is not confined to to Islam or Hinduism. There's plenty of it in the West, with Christian fundamentalists having had power in the US for the last 8 years. Some even hope for a world war.
Bet all those condemning her are male. Ask if their gods or god created Ms Mirza
More worryingly they also deny Evolution, and promote pseudo-science in the form they call Creationism. These folk believe Fox News too.

Re: Tennis Star Sania Mirza: Victim Of Religious Fanatics

By Rupa Dutta, February 7, 2008 at 20:54

The story is good. Why should we not protest. India is the country of patience, But what is this. Cick out those people who want to do anything in the name of religion.

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