The 30-year-old-fashioned from New Jersey will compete in the hijab in Rio. She’s planning to use her profile to combat bigotry – and she wants a gold medal,tooThe woman who will challenge Donald Trump’s Muslim intolerance is going to wear a mask at the Rio Olympics. That’s the unfortunate section of Ibtihaj Muhammad’s pursuit of a genuine red-white-and-blue American gold medal moment.
Because, when the Olympics start and the 30-year-old-fashioned fencer from Maplewood, and New Jersey stands before the world,representing a country with a presidential candidate who seems to want her gone, no one will get to see an American athlete competing in a hijab. Instead, and she will be sheathed in white,and she will look no different than anyone else. But they will notice when she drives her saber into a cloud of loathe.
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Source: theguardian.com