Muslim community members stood alongside Muslim sophomore Nasihah Thompson-King Friday to call on the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association to change its policy that requires Muslim students to request permission to alter athletic uniforms for religious reasons.
The firestorm over a policy requiring student-athletes to file for a waivers to wear religious garments during school sports continues to grow.
School and elected officials as well as community members stood alongside sophomore Nasihah Thompson-King Friday to call on the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association to change its policy that requires students to request permission to alter athletic uniforms for religious reasons.
“Change is coming and it’s coming rapidly,” Thompson-King said at a press conference at Mastery Charter School Shoemaker Campus in West Philadelphia.
Last week during a high school basketball game, a PIAA referee barred Thompson-King from taking the court while wearing her hijab, which the 16-year-old wears as part of her Islamic faith, because she did not have an approved waiver from the state agency.
Thompson-King declined to remove the headscarf and remained on the bench.
Left wing State Rep. Vanessa Lowery Brown (D-190) said requiring religious waivers for students to play in religious garments was a tragedy. “Whatever your religious background is, you should not have to ask for a waiver to be able to worship in the way that you worship,” Brown said. “Some people worship on Sunday, some people worship on Saturday, some people worship everyday, and sometimes their attire reflects the way that they worship.”
Another Left Wing State Sen. Sharif Street (D-3) said he will explore legislative remedies in Harrisburg to mandate the PIAA to alter its policy unless the agency acts. He characterized the PIAA as placing “undue burdens” on religious communities. “This is plan wrong,” he said.
Among those also at the press conference held inside a classroom at the school was Thompson-King’s mother, Fatima Thompson, and aunt, Salima Susswell; Shoemaker Principal Sharif El-Mekki; and members of the community organization Muslims 4 Humanity.
In Thompson-King’s case, the coach of the team she plays for, Mastery Charter North-Pickett Pumas, was advised about the waiver requirement by a referee during a previous game, in which Thompson-King was still allowed to play while wearing her hijab.
But days later, the same referee refused to let Thompson-King enter the game wearing her hijab without the waiver. At the press conference, Thompson-King’s mother said referees asking her daughter for a waiver in order to wear her hijab was “humiliating” and “intimidating.”
Due to the wide range of sports and the issues involving wearing additional garments for religious purposes, Mertz expected it would be difficult to do away with the religious waiver policy altogether.
As Mertz stated earlier this week, the waiver policy is in place both for safety reasons and to determine whether alterations constitute a competitive advantage.
Due to the criminal parasite terrorist nature of the islam ideology – their soldiers should wear numbered orange jumpsuits at all times.
ugly muz bitches shouldn’t be on USA soil..get them out and to the muz bitches: YOU IS UGLY, SHUT YA HALALHOLES.
Yeah, sure, moslems, just because you’re SO f’ing special.
Conform to the rules are pound sand.
p.s. Above was reply to Ziggyblue.
Ooooohh, that’s waycist!!
Misogynistic ‘ideology”. Poohomomad was the most perverted warlord imaginable.
Islam will infiltrate each and every opportunity that allows it to sue and gain a chance to instill sharia law upon non Muslims, time to change it’s status in America: back before LBJ Islam was not allowed into the United States for various reasons, the democrats in power changed the immigration law and allowed Islam to enter the USA, since then and seriously after 9/11 Islam became the token to humanitarian cause and what we have today is Obama’s plan that brought in more Islam to create a third world middle eastern culture to destroy America, it will be done by birth rate expansion, law suits against our First Amendment of freedom of religion which is why the status of Islam must be changed to that of a theocracy: A belief that has its own set of laws and is governed by its religious leaders that segregates itself from society, builds compounds and no go zones, not allowing ALL non Muslims to enter : this type of belief has no place in America: our nation may have been formed by immigration but those people assimilated into creating our nation, Islam however does not assimilate.
Muslim blacks HATE blacks. They are TRAITORS to the entire black race on earth.
They don’t utter a single word of protest about Muslims seizing and keeping blacks for slaves and sex slaves.
SILENCE is CONSENT
For 1,400 years, Muslims have practiced right up to the present day, the SATANIC CRUELTY, BARBARISM, SAVAGERY and INHUMANITY of slavery and sex slavery.
Jihad Slavery in Sudan, with Dr Charles Jacobs
Quran (3:56) – “As to those who reject faith, I will punish them with terrible agony in this world and in the Hereafter, nor will they have anyone to help.”
The supremacist followers of the MURDER BLOOD CONQUEST CULT of warlord Mohammad demand that despised and hated non-Muslims OBEY Muslims in EVERYTHING.
Muslims constantly hold news conferences always portraying Muslims as VICTIMS.
And if intensely hated non-Muslims don’t obey all Muslim demands, they sue for mega amounts of Highly Coveted infidel money $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
Next thing they will ask for is time out to pray if they are loosing the game.
Muslim female swimmers (wavers) …. don’t apply for waivers …. I presume ?
So xick of these varmits. They must be irradicated from this country. These are mot human. They are alien mondters from earths underbelly. The twat will sue for any and all reason. They cannot exist in normal society. This country time again bends over backwards as does the rest of the world. The only worthwhile mudslime is one not using oxygen.
yea and sometimes they worship their religion by killing kafirs! should they need a religious waiver for that too?
Where’s the headbag? I see a hairnet.
We are just dragging feet. You know they will eventually get the permission. Let them wear their stupid rag, but require them to sign a waiver that they can’t sue when they get strangled by it, or sue when they get terminated because their performance suffers because of it.
The first think I thought of was wearing a hijab during sports is dangerous in the extreme. But these idiots are too stupid to figure that out.
To them it’s all, “Inshallah”. No accountability.
Muzslime are nasty vile TROUBLEMAKING FREAKS every where they are. Anything that can be obtuse and disruptive they will do it and flaunt it. The nasty things NEED REMOVAL, in any way doable!
In addition, I don’t think there’s anything in their “holy book” about women wearing a headbag or anything else on the head. This was a late invention to minimize the value they put on women but the women are too stupid from inbreeding to realize it or else they enjoy being thought of as even lower in society than Muslim “men”. You can’t get lower than that!
Truly a sick bunch of creatures aren’t they glnman. Muzslime have proliferated, and gained so much wealth from oil, that they are able to spread their vile sickness all over the world. ALL non muzslime need to work together to completely destroy the nasty evil. And the ones supporting and defending izslime need to be destroyed with them. The world will never know peace again as long as there is a trace of freaking izslime.
They get slaughtered over not wearing it every day, so whether it’s written in any of their garbage is completely irrelevant. However, they attempt to utilize that “argument” just as often as they slaughter women for not wearing it.
These ugly idiots waste much of their own time and, even worse, they waste much of ours. They stop us from giving 100% to what is really important, our health, education, work etc. They and their ‘worship’ should always be ignored.
Muslims 4 Humanity sound nice but we know its fake . Now for hijab the the students will wear Burka’s weapons optional . All referee will dress as the pope Teams coming in will dress as priests. Now that is diversity .Bet they complain about that to
Its not a request. As usual its a demand. A demand that everyone has to put pisslam first and ignore hundreds of years of established culture that has worked perfectly well.
If you cant conform then dont play. Go away.
Dont say you want to assimilate then demand that the rules be changed for your snot nosed arrogant self entitled shit of a kid.
Never give in to the muzzies request!!
Not one f*cking nanometer, ever, period.