Saudi Girls Are Doing Something Radical: Playing Sports

Forbes Sunday 29th April, 2012

post-game snack was halal . My 12-year-old daughter’s junior high basketball team had Muslim players, part of a team that collectively spoke five languages: English, Spanish, Arabic, Polish, and text. But in Saudi Arabia, the idea of Muslim girls playing sports is a radical concept in Saudi Arabia, where a conservative interpretation of Islam means women should not exercise, lest they, as one cleric put it in 2009,risk losing their virgini...

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