At last year’s Rio Olympics, America fielded its first hijab-wearing Muslim athlete. The fencer, Ibtihaj Muhammad, gained prominence for her religion but stayed visible through a series of anti-American statements. Muhammad may have represented the United States on the world’s biggest stage, but don’t confuse that for a sense of patriotism.
In an interview with The Daily Beast, Muhammad once complained about living in the United States. According to the athlete, she feels ”unsafe” in the US and blames racism for her sense of fear while walking through New York City. When asked about Donald Trump, she said ”I don’t know who that is.”
Despite this, Mohammed was nearly chosen to carry the American flag during the Rio Olympics’ opening ceremonies. In a vote among her peers, she placed second to Michael Phelps. CNN published a piece that claimed Phelps didn’t deserve to carry the flag because, in so many words, he’s a ‘tall, successful, rich, white guy’
It’s unclear whether her fellow athletes were aware of Mohammed’s penchant for anti-American rants when they made their choice.
Watch as Mohammad attacks Trump’s call for a safe America on the next page:
Jessica Justice See proof you were taught wrong.. Not only am i a Militatry Brat I live in the North and I’m not a bible thumper.. You arn’t even smart enough to look at my Facebook page……
Keep this goat smelling$#%&!@*out of the USA
Pray to which “god”? Zeus? Ra? Thor? Maybe it’s a goddess? Hera? Bast? Freya?
And why should she want your forgiveness? She exercised her right as an American citizen.
Yuck!!!!!!
Taking pictures of cows and sheep that’s a photojournalist then you are
you stink go back to your goats hop them
Really don’t care…just saying she isn’t un American for complaining. If anything complaining is a prerequisite to be an American. I mean just look at what the far right AND left do, they complain. Our government especially is full of professional complainers. What we even do best is tell people who don’t complain about the same thing we do to go live in another country. Cause it’s only cool to whine when we whine about the same thing.
Lee Joseph Mitchell and its our right to dislike her political ideology, and her b******t.
She won’t allowed to have a point of view.
The ignorance is astounding.