General Article Hijab ban threatens basketball phenom

Topic Selected: Sport
This article is 10 years old. Click here to view the latest articles for this topic.

‘As of right now I’m really in a holding pattern because of FIBA,’ Abdul-Qaadir told Masslive.com on Thursday, 12 June.

‘I think in many ways the key word in FIBA is international. I think that’s what upsets me most.’

The youngest of seven children in a devout Muslim family, she was always taught to practise her faith and be proud of whom she was.

And basketball came naturally to her, as she shot hoops as a toddler and kept working at her skills as she grew older, emulating her older broth...

Would you like to see the rest of this article and all the other benefits that Issues Online can provide with?

Sign up now for a no obligation FREE TRIAL and view the entire collection