Not surprisingly, Wodjan Shahrkhani, the woefully unqualified girl who forced the decision to allow hijabs (despite the safety risk) in Olympic judo competition, is bearing the brunt of the abuse from Muslim hardliners for this Islamic supremacist stunt.
“Saudi Olympic Athletes Test Kingdom’s Dedication To Gender Apartheid,” by Qanta Ahmed in The Daily Beast, August 6 (thanks to George):
Wodjan Ali Seraj Abdulrahim Shahrkhani returns to Saudi Arabia as the first woman to represent the Kingdom in judo, but while her participation has been celebrated globally the domestic reaction to her accomplishment has ranged from lukewarm to openly hostile. Her father, a judo referee who said he wanted his daughter to make “new history for Saudi’s women,” is reportedly incensed at conservative Saudis who showered her with racial slurs on Twitter and called her a “prostitute” for participating.
The Kingdom bent to a combination of international pressure and the increasingly powerful Saudi vox populi by announcing””just a month before the Games began””that Shahrkhani and Sarah Attar, a California born-and-bred track runner at Pepperdine with dual citizenship, would compete at the Games. But while the decision was a baby step toward gender equality for the approximately 11 million women and girls who call Saudi Arabia home, the move trigged [sic] a powerful conservative backlash from clerics and others….
“Conservatives” don’t actually call women “prostitutes” for participating in the Olympic games.