Dress mess: Jamaat threatens Sania
Indian tennis sensation Sania Mirza will receive extra security after an Islamic group opposed to her on-court dress threatened to stop her from playing in next week’s WTA event, police said on Friday.
Muslim clergymen have denounced the 18-year-old player for wearing skimpy skirts and colourful sleeveless tops on court, which they say are un-Islamic.
The teenager has emerged as one of India’s most visible sporting icons following a sensational year in which she has climbed to 34 in the WTA world rankings.
In a country dominated by cricket, companies are queuing up to sign endorsements with her.
Mirza has refused to be drawn on the controversy over her clothes and is scheduled to play in Kolkata beginning on Monday, despite the call by a powerful Islamic group to stop her.
The group, Jamaat-e-Ulema-e-Hind, has warned that…its members would try to prevent Mirza from playing if she did not wear “proper clothes.”
“What she wears offends Islam. She will be stopped from playing if she doesn’t adhere to it,” Siddiqullah Chowdhry, the group’s chief, told Reuters.
Police are tightening security following the call.
“We are keeping everything in mind and not taking any chances. We are making special and strong security arrangements,” Gautam Chakraborty, additional police commissioner of Kolkata, told Reuters.
Scores of police officers are being deployed at the indoor venue for the tournament. Spectators will be frisked and will have to pass through metal detectors to enter the stadium.
Sunny said,
September 17, 2005 @ 11:00 pm
Soopar..
So they want sania to play in a full black gown covering even her face with a veil?
Which religion preaches one to interfere in anothers` personal life?
Some idiots are making everyone hate islam and muslims altogether,,
deva said,
September 17, 2005 @ 11:10 pm
As a true tennis fan we all watch her game. but some perverts ooks elsewhere and call themselves islamic preaches. comon sania you play your game and dont worry about this .even wife of nabi wasnot pure to him . so whats the big fuss all about u mullas
Rafiq said,
September 18, 2005 @ 5:09 am
Hey Sania keep it up and don’t care about the fucky mullas. We all know what these mullas do. I ask the can’t control the gals of their family from doing all those shit so they try to show their power to others. so put a shit on these fools and play u’r natural game.
ABC said,
September 18, 2005 @ 7:21 pm
Wish more Muslims would voice their opinions against such outrageous statements to make more of an impact coz the rest of the world feels that if other muslims stay quiet about it then they kindda agree wid crap like dis..
Sufian said,
September 18, 2005 @ 10:12 pm
THis maybe a political issue , there might be some other intensionz as well but still she may do it but not to call herself a muslim than …leave islam and do anything u wish….does hinduism allow shudras and brahmaz to sit and eat together ? intermarry togethher?? this sure is a part of personal life ….would u say religion never matters????? assholes do every thing u wanna do but exclude the name of religion frm ovet it dont atleast alter the religious basis!
hope to c ya soon!
Sham said,
September 18, 2005 @ 11:23 pm
People opposing are orthodox and demotivating for the future.
They need to think again.
roger said,
September 19, 2005 @ 3:16 pm
Its time for All Muslims to oppose such type of idiots. If the Mullas consider that wearing particular type of dress will be obeying the religion, Please read the religious books once again and take and follow the main message of love and peace for others, which is given by all religions in different ways. Stop this kind of nonsense.
zafar said,
September 20, 2005 @ 12:20 pm
they should be arrested for threatening. simple.
Boulevard India said,
September 20, 2005 @ 9:30 pm
Security tightened for Sania Mirza
According to this article in The Hindu, Sania Mirza has been walking around the WTA Sunfeast Open with “a posse of commandos and special branch personnel.” Sania’s refusal to wear a burqa at the densely Muslim event, along with othe…
gunner57 said,
September 22, 2005 @ 6:38 am
sufian bhai, it is evident that you have a very vague idea of hinduism,
so we will appreciate it if you didn’t talk about brahmins and shudras..
getting back to the sania issue - you seem to be a devout muslim when
you say that sania should quit islam before she wears short skirts and
tight tops… but please tell me - DID YOU QUIT ISLAM BEFORE YOU STARTED
CHECKING DEBONAIRBLOG AND OTHER PORN SITES? i don’t think islam would
approve of you checking debonairblog… so please judge your perverted
self before judging a sportsperson on her uniform… ’cause she is playing
to bring glory to her country, while you are here just to jerk off.
abdul said,
September 23, 2005 @ 3:21 am
Out there, there are many heroines, models who are just showing flesh , for the sake of it.
First preach & teach islam to them.