Islamic Tolerance Alert from Associated Press, with thanks to all who sent this in:
Authorities have revoked the Bahraini citizenship of a Kenyan-born athlete who ran in an Israeli marathon, the nation's athletic union said Saturday. Bahraini runner Mushir Salem Jawher competed and won the Tiberias Marathon in Israel on Thursday, ending the race in just over 2 hours and 13 minutes.Most Arab states do not recognize Israel, and the Jerusalem Post newspaper said Jawher was the first athlete from an Arab country to compete in an Israeli marathon. Jawher was born in Kenya in 1978 and moved to Bahrain in 2003, according to the International Association of Athletics Federation.
The Jerusalem Post cited Jawher as saying he was "very proud" to have run in Israel. Even though Bahrain has no official ties with the Jewish state, "It is a free country," the athlete was quoted as saying.
Bahrain's Athletic Union said in a statement Saturday that it had received the news that a Bahraini national competed in Israel with "shock and regret."
"The union deeply regrets what the athlete has done," the statement said. A comity of sport and government authorities decided to strike Jawher's name off the sport union records and strip off his Bahraini nationality, the statement said.
We (Israel) should give him citizenship so he doesn't have to be stateless!
He better be fast now.
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He should respond by leaving Bahrein, and converting to Judaism. Then he should move to Israel, and settle there. But despite his noble act, Israel shouldn't welcome him as long as he is Muslim.
Petty, mean spirited bigots.
Bloody well serves him right. The purchase of Kenyan athletes, including expensively financed conversions to Islam, has been all the rage among oil-rich, athlete-poor Gulf states since they discovered Western sports. Now one of them is finding out that the favour of rich Arabs comes with a big price. Perhaps that will teach some of the next generation.
""It is a free country," the athlete was quoted as saying."
....someone should tell him Islam is Anti-everything. And if you don't believe them, they will just kill you.
Kenya refuses to take runner back
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can't believe those koranimals can strip citizenship off for nothing, yet we have to find monstrous evidence to kick out koranimals from our places.
After learning that he had lost his Bahraini nationality, Mr Jawher told Kenya's Daily Nation newspaper that he was "shocked".
"I was never told it was illegal to enter Israel. I really don't know what to do."
It said Mr Jawher entered Israel with his Kenyan passport and that the runner had "violated the laws of Bahrain".
Kenya does not allow dual nationality and Mr Jawher was supposed to have given up his passport in 2003 when he defected to Bahrain.
He is one of several long-distance athletes to have moved from East Africa to the Gulf in recent years on lucrative contracts.
The defections have provoked anger in Kenya.
BBC sports reporter Alex Capstick says payment for the transfer in the form of new facilities in Kenya has been slow to materialise, and not all athletes who make the move receive the privileged lifestyle they expected.
It seems he was unaware that his new patrons would not allow him to compete in Israel. Sounds like a mixture of poor communication and someone not being the sharpest tool in the box, to me.
Muslims hate individual desire to excel...