Muslim players sue NMSU coach

[Orrin_73]

I always found praying before the game very strange. I mean the opponents pray to the same god so what do they want to achieve by this. I saw on the tv that Americans were always praying before the game.


LAS CRUCES, N.M. — Three former New Mexico State University football players — all Muslims — sued the university and coach Hal Mumme on Monday, saying they were dismissed from the team because of their religious beliefs.


"Universities are supposed to be places of evolved thinking and reason, not of base intolerance and bigotry" said Peter Simonson, executive director of ACLU New Mexico. "In this case, the university failed its purpose, and a coach indulged in those prejudices to assert his own religious preferences over the players and the team."


According to the lawsuit, not long after Mumme learned Ali, now a halfback for Portland State, and the Thompsons were Muslim, he prohibited the Thompsons from attending the team's spring 2005 training camp and questioned Ali about his attitudes toward al-Qaida.

Muslim players sue NMSU coach
ACLU press release
Team Building or Coercion?

[Rabrrrrrr]

1. Good! It's about time we start stamping out the systemic racism of sports

and sports afficionados, as well as the systemic american triumphalism, christian triumphalism, and misogyny, and fake masculinity.

I hope the coach loses his job, and never gets hired anywhere else.

[varun]

2. The more diverse the country becomes

the more such cases will come forward.

US is still more than 95% Christian. So it is not very diverse when it comes to religion.

[PBass]

3. Coach should be fired, and the school should be sued to hell and back.

We still have anti-discrmination laws here, don't we?

This IS still America, isn't it?

[0007]

4. I agree! It has shades of football coach Bill McCartney

of Colorado University of the nineties and his "Promise Keepers" Remember?

[JI7]

5. what's going on ? black kids being sent to back of bus

people questioning others on where loyalty stands ?

what year is it?