{"id":2233,"date":"2005-09-18T03:30:51","date_gmt":"2005-09-18T08:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=2233"},"modified":"2005-09-18T01:58:45","modified_gmt":"2005-09-18T06:58:45","slug":"those_legs_are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/18\/those_legs_are\/","title":{"rendered":"Those legs are weapons of mass distraction, apparently."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"lose<\/a>\nDon’t these people have anything<\/em> better to do with their time than pick on a teenager<\/a>?<\/p>\n\n

Police will provide a huge security detail for Indian tennis star Sania Mirza during a world tennis tournament in Calcutta next week.<\/blockquote>\n\n
The heavy security follows rumours that a radical Islamic group threatened to stop her playing in the tournament unless she changed her on-court dress.<\/blockquote>\n\n

Awesome. Let’s harass one of the few decent athletes India has, it’s a fantastic way to thank her for reaching the fourth round of the US Open.<\/p>\n\n

The radical Islamic group in question is the Jamiat-e-Islami, they claim they haven’t threatened her at all.<\/p>\n\n

“These are rumours, we have not threatened to stop Sania or anybody else from playing,” he said.<\/blockquote>\n\n
\n“Though it is true that the kind of dress Sania wears offends us – we don’t expect a Muslim girl to wear such skimpy clothes in public.”<\/blockquote>\n\n

Look. If you want to be offended by something Sania wears while playing tennis, go after what’s REALLY outrageous– those horrid black socks she likes. Priorities, people!<\/p>\n\n

Understandably, Sania’s safety is important to the authorities who are taking all threats very seriously.<\/p>\n\n

“We cannot take a chance with the security of someone like Sania,” Calcutta’s additional police commissioner Gautam Chakrabarty said.<\/blockquote>\n\n
“We have deployed the best of our women police, nearly a hundred of them, to guard her both on and off the court and we have made special arrangements to frisk all spectators attending the tournament,” he said.<\/blockquote>\n\n

What does sweeeet Sania have to say about all this nonsense?<\/p>\n\n

Sania Mirza has refused to be drawn into the controversy, merely asking forgiveness “for whatever I have to do on court as an 18-year-old.”<\/blockquote>\n\n

She didn’t write something irreverent<\/a> about the Prophet Muhammad. She didn’t molest a mullah<\/a>. She doesn’t have strange hair<\/a> and a penchant for criticizing Islam. Don’t get it twizzy– she is not the enemy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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