Our female champ is named Nazi??? The Headlines write themselves.

"Nazi Won't Cover Up in Iran"
"Nazi Eliminates the Competition"
"Checkmate! Nazi Cruises to Victory over Polish Champ"

Where's Sports Garfield to say that it's a choice to cover yourself and it's actually empowering?

She's been very defensive of the way Muslim women are made to dress, yes.

Uh ... doesn't that seem more or less incongruous with so-termed 'empowerment'? Am I missing something?

A massive ego and a twitter account.

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Women in Hijab Play Sports. Get Over It. http://thebea.st/2bkoQGS via @thedailybeast

For the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio, Team USA presented the first hijab-wearing athlete. Ibtihaj Muhammad is an unapologetic Black Muslim woman and brilliant fencer who speaks candidly about the toxic American political climate while casually attempting to slay in world-class competition.

The media attention around Muhammad is important—but the obsession about her clothing choices is tiresome. Female athletes are often subject to incredulous amounts of misogyny, and in the case of Muhammad, gendered Islamophobia. Discussions from mostly male sportswriters on those issues are often lacking in nuance.

The coverage of Muslim women athletes often emphasizes their traditional roles in an exotic culture, and makes their uniforms and veils into the topic of much fascination and tokenization. According to a 2014 Women’s Media Center report, almost 90 percent of sportswriters are white, straight, able-bodied men. Therein lies much of the problem. When stories on Muhammad emphasize that she is not an oppressed and subservient woman, it just reinforces the unfortunate myth that most Muslim women are meek and oppressed.

Bougiefems like Julie love women like this because when white girls avert the male gaze by going out in public in North Face and sweatpants, they just look like slobs, but when Muslims do it by covering their bodies at the behest of men, it's a brave stance against culture-war conservatives and reddit-teen edgelords, two groups they can't align themselves with at any cost. Now that's a chess match.

Spiegs and her had an interesting moment a day or two ago. Spiegs tried to say among so called bad words for women broad was ok in his book. JDC was having none of it but he didn't back down.

The players need to respect cultural differences. When I visited different places with different cultures, I like to show my respect by dressing up in their traditional style of clothing. No one asked me to do it. I just do it out of respect.

George Foreman because of his height was the master of the hi jab.

So, I suppose we can expect that when the tournament is held in a Western country Ms. Polgar will exhort the women from Islamic nations to remove their headscarves and adopt Western dress to show their respect?

Look, you can sit around on your relatively free American ass and kid yourself that this shit is "choice" or "empowerment", but the truth is that the concept of hijab does not exist outside a context of objectification, subjugation, and oppression, not to mention the sexualization of young girls.

Shameful.

I've read about twenty or so papers written by young women who claim that the hijab "frees" them.....maybe it does, but....hard for me to see that.

I've read about twenty or so papers written by young women who claim that the hijab "frees" them.....maybe it does, but....hard for me to see that.