Muslim High School Track Team Member Cries Discrimination

January 15th, 2008 (7) Posted By ticticboom.

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I’ve never heard of any like this being pulled prior to 2003. These fukn muzzies have got to just stfu and assimilate, or get the heck out of my country because this kind of crap is only going to escalate.

I just don’t see this kind of stuff ending.

WASHINGTON, DC – A DC track and field star says she’s been the victim of religious discrimination. Officials at the Montgomery Invitational track meet told Juashaunna Kelly she had to remove her Muslim head covering if she wanted to compete.

It was a roller coaster weekend for the 17 year old star from Roosevelt High School. On Friday, Gatorade named her DC Girls Cross Country Runner of the Year. On Saturday, officials at the Montgomery Invitational left her weeping.

“I knew she was about to say I couldn’t run,” says Juashaunna. “So I started crying. And she told me to calm down and everything. And I was just standing there crying.”

Since her sophomore year at Roosevelt, Juashaunna has worn a custom made suit that covers her head and neck as required by her faith. But officials at the prestigious indoor track told her it violated the rules. “And I told her, I’ve been wearing it for three years, why can’t I wear it now?”

“I said doing that would be almost like me sending her out there buck naked,” says Roosevelt track coach Anthony Bowden. “I can’t do that.”

Track meet director Tom Rogers insists it had nothing to do with what Juashaunna was wearing on her head. He says lots of runners wear hejabs. One was even officiating at the meet. He says it has to do with what was under her uniform. Association rules require undergarments be one single solid color.

“It started off with the hood,” says Juashaunna’s mother Sarah. “He didn’t say anything about an undergarment or shirt. He said the hood. The hood had to come off.”

The discussion got pretty heated.

“You need to back off,” Coach Bowden told an official. “‘I don’t want you in my face, cause you’re spitting on me.’ It got to the point where I just took my hand and put it in his face and pushed him back.”

Juashaunna’s convinced she missed a chance to shine for college scouts. There “was a lot of recruiters at this meet,” she says.

“I feel bad because I promised her something I wasn’t able to deliver,” says her coach.

The track meet is sponsored by Montgomery County Schools. Its director says a sanctioned meet has to follow the rules set up by the National Federation of State High School Associations.

(WUSA9)

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  • Joe Dick

    Religious has no place in schools, especially not the bargain basement religion that is Islam.

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  • Arsal

    @ Joe Dick

    So Low & narrow minded, open up ur mind dude. You should learn to respect other’s faith, their feelings and their freedom of expression. Now someone plz don’t come up saying that Insulting or humiliating means freedom of expression.

    IF so then you are a shit head, u mother fucking moron.(now that’s my right of expression)

  • “x”

    Arsal, can you seriously blame anyone for being pissed off at Islam? It’s followers have done and continue to do so much bad in the world. Not all followers I’m sure. But there are still enough bad people. Islamists have made other’s close-minded by killing anyone who isn’t muslim. It tends to piss people off. To wrap this up, it is incredibly hypocritical of you to say ‘Now someone plz don’t come up saying that Insulting or humiliating means freedom of expression.’ when you open with ‘So Low & narrow minded, open up ur mind dude.’ and close with ‘you are a shit head, u mother fucking moron’.

  • the original

    This is the most offensive image I have ever seen to illustrate a point.

    I don’t see how you could possibly run or compete in a burka on a track field. However the thought of being perceived as in the above image might make some American girls want to wear one.

  • Kipa

    Muslims have done so much bad in the world? Excuse me but Christians have been doing “bad” in the world in the name of God long before Islam even surfaced on this earth… have we forgotten history and the Crusades in which Christians main goal was to wipe our Muslims, Jews, and Orthodox Christians just to name a few? Or any other of numerous murders and waged wars that “Christians” have waged because it was “their destiny from God” to do so?? Or are we overlooking history??? Its so easy to hate what you DO NOT understand. If any of you have ever even have a decent conversation with a Muslim you would know that the majority of them do not feel the same way of those terrorists or jihadist… You would know that they feel as though those people exploit the true nature of Islam…

    To sum up everything I’ve just said: do your research and be consistent and not hypocritical before you start making ignorant remarks… and those goes for both sides

    • Kiadimarky

      RE Kipa:

      I think we can all acknowledge that the crusades resulted in xenophobia fueled atrocities… But mankind has evolved since then. Islam’s radical followers are by far the most violent and numerous group that currently subscribes to the “God Wills It” mantra, and kills innocents in his/her/its name. You bringing up the crusades makes it sounds like every religion gets an allotted amount of time to kill for their god. What’s done is done, and lets focus on the present: radicalized Islam (not moderate Islam) is a threat to the safety and freedom of Kuffar, and although there is great wisdom in the Koran, some of its policies and ideas are outdated.