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Aaron Rupar: Zohran Mamdani on the viral "my mayor's Muslim" Knicks fan: "Thanks to him, there are a lot of people who have just been running up to me over the last few weeks just shouting, 'My Mayor's Muslim!' I said, 'It's true. I am.'"
Maxime Ausin: I’m seeing a lot of misinformation about Victor Wembanyama’s pregame outfit, even from major American media. @hugo_levay asked the player directly, and Wemby confirmed it was an outfit for Eid al-Adha, the Muslim celebration happening this week, not a monk’s robe. PS: Wembanyama is not Muslim, at least, the last time I asked him, he said he didn’t identify with any particular religion.
ILIC: Yeah, they have such a need to show that what they’re already doing is okay. Awful, bro, awful. And what’s worst is, most of these pro-European governments are funding it so much. KASUN: Well, look, we’re going back to some Satanism, let’s call it that. Look at the last Olympics – bro, don’t **** with me. It [referring to the Queer Last Supper images at the Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony] was made with the highest level of Satanism. Mocking the Catholic Orthodox faith, mocking us Christians. And then they say, “That Tate dude, the Tate brothers are crazy…”. They came out to defend our faith, and they are Muslims! [points at head to signify bewilderment] ILIC: It’s all gone too far. KASUN: Brother, the world has gone to ****, it’s unreal. I feel sorry for my child, your child, his child. It is easy for us, we’ve been through the wringer already; I say, if I die tomorrow, I’ll say: “I lived to the fullest.” [But] what will those poor kids live for? My child can’t walk 50 meters from his house to the store after 5 pm. Where is that normal? And in Serbia, in Croatia, you can still to this day go from one end of Zagreb, at any time of the day, without anyone touching you. But now the [racial epithet] are starting to come, now this **** is getting out of hand.
Duane Rankin: "I feel so much better." Jusuf Nurkic as he's in first few days of Ramadan (March 10-April 9) in which Muslims fast and can only eat or drink just before dawn and after sunset. "As far as the game, it's not really a big difference." Story incoming as #Suns at #Hornets Friday.
His on-court play would eventually take a back seat to his beliefs off of it when he converted to Islam and stopped standing for the national anthem, sending shockwaves through the sport. “I became a Muslim and I began to read more than I’ve ever read before,” he said. “But as I’m reading, you know, whether it’s foreign policy, domestic policy, I’m seeing America’s hand in so much corruption. And then I’m looking also at the history of this nation. Slavery and Jim Crow and segregation, right? I can’t reconcile standing up for this symbol, right? I just can’t.”
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Enes Kanter Freedom: I applaud you for condemning @KyrieIrving after multiple antisemitic incidents. It’s time to condemn yourself for supporting the millions of Muslims being slaughtered in #China You literally contribute to genocide,you freaking hypocrite @joetsai1999 You’re far worse than Kyrie
Alibaba is "effectively state-controlled," according to a recent study on the company by Garnaut Global, an independent research firm that analyzes the Chinese Communist Party structure and China's technology footprint. Under Tsai's leadership, Alibaba funded companies that helped China build "an intrusive, omnipresent surveillance state that uses emerging technologies to track individuals with greater efficiency," according to a 2020 congressional report. Those technologies have been used widely in the western region of Xinjiang, where the government has forced more than 1 million Uyghur Muslims and other ethnic minorities into barbed-wire "re-education" camps, policies that have been described as cultural "genocide" by the United States, several other countries and human rights organizations.
Portland Trail Blazers center Enes Kanter, a devout Muslim, has been partaking in the holy month since he was only eight years old. As he prepares to face his former team, the Boston Celtics, on Tuesday, he will do so without food or drinks. Yes, that means water too. “Whenever the Ramadan time comes, it gives me so much mental strength, and it’s like my superpowers come back,” Kanter said.
Jusuf Nurkic: Idlib in Syria today, dozens dead and over a hundred wounded. 🥺💔 But they are Muslims. So that’s not news. #StopTheWars #Syria 🙏🏻 pic.twitter.com/tWFgHbLgVC
Enes Kanter: The IRONY! #DictatorErdogan says Macron needs “mental checks” but Erdogan is the LUNATIC! 1) @EmmanuelMacron says he is against RADICAL Muslims. 2) @RTErdogan himself works w/ ISIS while he imprisons, tortures & kills innocent people Erdogan is the one who needs mental checks
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“We cannot go past the history,” Dragić said. “It means some bad things going on in the war and everything. But it’s over now, and we need to look to the future. I have a lot of friends in Croatia. I’m Serbian. I’m half-Serbian, half-Slovenian, and my grandparents, they were living in Bosnia. So I lived with a lot of different cultures — Christian-Orthodox, Muslims, Catholics. For me, it makes no difference. “At the end of the day, we were the same country. We have a lot of the same stuff. What happened in the past, it happened. I was young. I was three years old when the war was going on. So I don’t have anything to do with it, you know? All those guys are awesome to me.”
The NBA ran into myriad problems by opening one of the academies in Xinjiang, a police state in western China where more than a million Uighur Muslims are now held in barbed-wire camps. American coaches were frequently harassed and surveilled in Xinjiang, the sources said. One American coach was detained three times without cause; he and others were unable to obtain housing because of their status as foreigners.
Saad Yousuf: I had a scheduled one-on-one interview with Steve Kerr at morning shootaround. It was about Dirk and his potential retirement down the road. We did the interview before he met with the general media. About 3-5 mins. The interview was by the bench around midcourt at the AAC. As I finished, I told Kerr I was appreciative, as a Muslim, the political stances he took in defense of Muslims (Muslim ban was constantly in the news at the time). Kerr stopped in his tracks. Steve Kerr pulled me aside, no recorders, no cameras. He asked me how I was doing in "Trump's America." I said I was fine, family was going through some stuff. He told me about his dad, who were killed by extremists "Islamic" terrorists. He brought that up to explain that he was very well aware about those "Islamic" terrorists and the regular Muslims (vast majority, obviously).
It was a sparse crowd at the game — no more than a few thousand fans — but some fans wore the t-shirts. One fan at the end of the Chinese national anthem yelled "Free Hong Kong" and then left the arena on his own. He was not escorted out, according to Wizards spokesperson Scott Hall. Jon Schweppe, who was wearing a pro-Hong Kong shirt, confirmed this account. A few other fans had "Free Hong Kong" signs, and Schweppe, wearing one of those t-shirts, held a sign that read "Google Uyghurs," a reference to Muslims who are under mass internment in China.