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Saudi female athlete’s father to act against insults
The father of the first ever Saudi female to compete at the Olympic Games has vowed to sue those who insulted his daughter for challenging strict traditions that prevented women from participating.
The father of Wojdan Shaherkani, who stole the limelight at the London Olympics despite lasting only 82 seconds on the mat before being defeated, told Al-Sharq daily that he wrote to the interior minister with copies of insults made on the Twitter microblogging website.
“I have sent an urgent letter to the Minister of Interior Prince Ahmed bin Nayef bin Abdul Aziz with copies of all attacks made on Twitter,” said Ali Seraj Shaherkani.
A lawyer has been hired to sue those who attacked his daughter, he said.
The judo international referee said he had no problem with those who criticised the performance of his teenage daughter, who despite being swiftly beaten by Puerto Rico’s Melissa Mojica left the stadium to a standing ovation.
It is the first time the ultra-conservative Muslim kingdom sends women to the Olympics, and Shaherkani was almost kept out after the international federation for judo said she could not wear the Islamic hijab head cover.
The 16-year-old judoist eventually took part wearing a swimming cap to cover her hair, but that still did not impress Saudi conservatives who oppose relaxing constraints on women.
Czar of Defenestration
August 6th, 2012
Maybe he’ll “respect” his religion and kill her.
Lisl
August 6th, 2012
She’s 16? Wow. I’m sorry for her.
CrustyB
August 6th, 2012
They don’t respect freedom of speech in Saudi Arabia? So it’s sort of like the United States, then.
MADJACK
August 6th, 2012
This has something to to do with islam, right?
So who gives a flyin’ eff and PISS ON IT!
Chalupa
August 6th, 2012
The Saudis are not ultra conservative – they are ultra heathen.
HooHooNayNay
August 6th, 2012
Talk about token female. A thousand years of not allowing a shred of autonomy, and they push a 16 year old child out there telling her to open a can of whupass. That poor girl looked so lost. Everyone else who competes in the Olympics has confidence to spare, pity they couldn’t give her some.
She’ll probably be caned, stoned or worse for not obeying.
persecutor
August 6th, 2012
What do you expect from people who treat their sheep better than their women.
Callmelennie
August 6th, 2012
If this reta’ard tries to sue for defamation of his daughter in a Sa’udi court of law, someone is going to countersue with a car bomb. Where the hell does this guy think he is?
Tracy
August 6th, 2012
Did somebody insulted her honor & sportsmanship by spinning a yarn of failed attempts at the ‘Nyuk Nyuk 2 Finger Eye Poke’? If successful, that would’ve been historical.
NObama2012!
Leave Them In The 6C
August 6th, 2012
She would’ve represented the Arabs better if she’d competed in beach volleyball. Afterall, who knows sand better ?
Callmelennie
August 6th, 2012
You all think you know just how ridiculous this story but you don’t so let me help you out here.
First, every major news organization on the planet got her name wrong. “Wojdan” is a Polish man’s name, so the first question I had about this story was “What the hell is an obese Muslopolish hermaphrodite doing in the women’s heavyweight judo competition?” So I looked her up in Wikipedia and saw her name spelled out in Arabic and saw that it was “Wejdan”, a common woman’s name.
Secondly, she was a blue belt. That’s not even an impressive achievement for a ten year old. I started judo at eight years old and was a blue belt by the age of ten. So sending her to the Olympics was every bit as ridiculous as allowing me to go to the Olympics at the age of ten. I mean, this ranked right up there in stupidity with allowing a 400 lb man run in the marathon, or a one legged man with an arthritic knee run in the 100 meter dash
And yet every libtard on the planet applauded this greatest competitive fraud in the history of sports as if it was a world changing event. I tells ya, there’s something wrong with these people
Metprof
August 6th, 2012
Hey pal, don’t you have a goat to fuck or bomb vest to make….?
Go away.
Hussein's Harmonica
August 6th, 2012
How about sharing some of those tweets with the rest of the world? Saudi humor is a very rare thing.
Alxandro
August 6th, 2012
Jihad Libre
A story about a confused, masked, teenage, judo fighting, Muslim girl, caught between two cultures, the past and the modern world, while having to deal with an angry father.
Honest Politicians 4 Sale
August 6th, 2012
She has about two years experience in judo. She started as an inexperienced kid and she still isn’t qualified to compete in anything but children’s judo competition. And she doesn’t shave that hairy face. You can bet your stinking muslim ass people are going to joke about that.
This is all for the purpose of advancing the sharia and nothing more. We are rapidly losing our freedom due to the tolerance of islam and the jihad.
Buddy
August 6th, 2012
Do any of you know HS boys who’ve had to face girls in Varsity Wrestling ? They absolutely HATE it. There is no triumph in pinning a girl; if the girl is some anomaly and she beats you, you are humiliated; and a girl that wants to wrestle boys is a strange bird that you’d rather avoid.
The PR fighter could’ve broken this Saudi’s neck; could you imagine the jihad that would ignite?
They’re making sure the Olympics will be another destroyed relic of the formerly civilized world.
Stranded in Sonoma
August 6th, 2012
Is her father Brett Kimberlin?
Zilla
August 6th, 2012
Bwhahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!
bitterclinger
August 6th, 2012
Looking at the glass “half full,” I’d say we came out ahead. Instead of killing the daughter who brought shame to the family, he’s going to sue.
Progress, people. Progress.