Religious Tolerance

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080116/ap_on_re_us/school_athlete_muslim_clothing

This article upsets me. In a time when we push to put prayer back in schools, when a Muslim-born man can run for president, when a Wiccan symbol is now recognized by the military for tombstones, when we are at the peak of what's considered our Golden Age of Religious Tolerance...

Why can't the muslim girl be allowed to practice her beliefs?

I see no way that the unitard could have enhanced her performance. She complied with the other regulations, about matching the rest of her team, by wearing track shorts and and a t-shirt (I'm sure that was cumbersome).

And the official that says he offered her several options to keep from being disqualified? It sounds like a bunch of bull to me. None of the options he offered her really changed the problem at all. Wearing and extra t-shirt? Turning the unitard inside out? Pffft. Oooo, that makes such a difference.

And even knowing that she refused to comply with the offered solutions, rather than disqualify her on the spot, they let her run. Only after she won two seperate events, did we get around to disqualifying her.

The NCLA is going to have a field day with this one. And for once, I can't say that I blame them.