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Duane Rankin: "I feel so much better." Jusuf Nurkic as he's in first few days of Ramadan (March 10-April 9) in which Muslims fast and can only eat or drink just before dawn and after sunset. "As far as the game, it's not really a big difference." Story incoming as #Suns at #Hornets Friday.
His on-court play would eventually take a back seat to his beliefs off of it when he converted to Islam and stopped standing for the national anthem, sending shockwaves through the sport. “I became a Muslim and I began to read more than I’ve ever read before,” he said. “But as I’m reading, you know, whether it’s foreign policy, domestic policy, I’m seeing America’s hand in so much corruption. And then I’m looking also at the history of this nation. Slavery and Jim Crow and segregation, right? I can’t reconcile standing up for this symbol, right? I just can’t.”
Enes Kanter Freedom to Nets owner: You're far worse than Kyrie Irving
Enes Kanter Freedom: I applaud you for condemning @KyrieIrving after multiple antisemitic incidents. It’s time to condemn yourself for supporting the millions of Muslims being slaughtered in #China You literally contribute to genocide,you freaking hypocrite @joetsai1999 You’re far worse than Kyrie
Alibaba is "effectively state-controlled," according to a recent study on the company by Garnaut Global, an independent research firm that analyzes the Chinese Communist Party structure and China's technology footprint. Under Tsai's leadership, Alibaba funded companies that helped China build "an intrusive, omnipresent surveillance state that uses emerging technologies to track individuals with greater efficiency," according to a 2020 congressional report. Those technologies have been used widely in the western region of Xinjiang, where the government has forced more than 1 million Uyghur Muslims and other ethnic minorities into barbed-wire "re-education" camps, policies that have been described as cultural "genocide" by the United States, several other countries and human rights organizations.
Portland Trail Blazers center Enes Kanter, a devout Muslim, has been partaking in the holy month since he was only eight years old. As he prepares to face his former team, the Boston Celtics, on Tuesday, he will do so without food or drinks. Yes, that means water too. “Whenever the Ramadan time comes, it gives me so much mental strength, and it’s like my superpowers come back,” Kanter said.
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Jusuf Nurkic: Idlib in Syria today, dozens dead and over a hundred wounded. 🥺💔 But they are Muslims. So that’s not news. #StopTheWars #Syria 🙏🏻 pic.twitter.com/tWFgHbLgVC
Enes Kanter: The IRONY! #DictatorErdogan says Macron needs “mental checks” but Erdogan is the LUNATIC! 1) @EmmanuelMacron says he is against RADICAL Muslims. 2) @RTErdogan himself works w/ ISIS while he imprisons, tortures & kills innocent people Erdogan is the one who needs mental checks
“We cannot go past the history,” Dragić said. “It means some bad things going on in the war and everything. But it’s over now, and we need to look to the future. I have a lot of friends in Croatia. I’m Serbian. I’m half-Serbian, half-Slovenian, and my grandparents, they were living in Bosnia. So I lived with a lot of different cultures — Christian-Orthodox, Muslims, Catholics. For me, it makes no difference. “At the end of the day, we were the same country. We have a lot of the same stuff. What happened in the past, it happened. I was young. I was three years old when the war was going on. So I don’t have anything to do with it, you know? All those guys are awesome to me.”
The NBA ran into myriad problems by opening one of the academies in Xinjiang, a police state in western China where more than a million Uighur Muslims are now held in barbed-wire camps. American coaches were frequently harassed and surveilled in Xinjiang, the sources said. One American coach was detained three times without cause; he and others were unable to obtain housing because of their status as foreigners.
Saad Yousuf: I had a scheduled one-on-one interview with Steve Kerr at morning shootaround. It was about Dirk and his potential retirement down the road. We did the interview before he met with the general media. About 3-5 mins. The interview was by the bench around midcourt at the AAC. As I finished, I told Kerr I was appreciative, as a Muslim, the political stances he took in defense of Muslims (Muslim ban was constantly in the news at the time). Kerr stopped in his tracks. Steve Kerr pulled me aside, no recorders, no cameras. He asked me how I was doing in "Trump's America." I said I was fine, family was going through some stuff. He told me about his dad, who were killed by extremists "Islamic" terrorists. He brought that up to explain that he was very well aware about those "Islamic" terrorists and the regular Muslims (vast majority, obviously).
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It was a sparse crowd at the game — no more than a few thousand fans — but some fans wore the t-shirts. One fan at the end of the Chinese national anthem yelled "Free Hong Kong" and then left the arena on his own. He was not escorted out, according to Wizards spokesperson Scott Hall. Jon Schweppe, who was wearing a pro-Hong Kong shirt, confirmed this account. A few other fans had "Free Hong Kong" signs, and Schweppe, wearing one of those t-shirts, held a sign that read "Google Uyghurs," a reference to Muslims who are under mass internment in China.
Alykhan Bijani: The Houston #Rockets are promoting Mahmoud Abdelfattah (@MahmoudFattah30) to be the next Head Coach for the Rio Grande Valley Vipers. Coach Abdelfattah will be the first Palestinian and first Muslim Head Coach in G-League/NBA history. Historical hire for the organization.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: The time-traveling DeLorean is speeding toward 1950, and when it hits 88 mph, it’s going to suck the whole country back with it. Back to a time when pretty much everyone who wasn’t a straight, white Christian male was considered a second-class citizen whose rights and future depended on the patriarchs’ whims and largesse. It’s hardly surprising that this entitled group would like to return to their rapidly eroding privileged status, which they hope to accomplish through sustained attacks on women, people of color, immigrants, Muslims and the LBGTQ community. By emboldening the right wing through vitriolic rhetoric, the Donald Trump administration has become the UV light in sleazy motel rooms that illuminates these hidden stains on our democracy. Right now the stains include Georgia, Alabama, Missouri and other states passing restrictive abortion legislation that reduces women to baby incubators.
Though there have been other Muslims in the league (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar converted to Islam in 1968, a year before he began a 20-season N.B.A. career, and Hakeem Olajuwon was known for playing well while fasting), Kanter still makes a point of telling teams about the duties of his faith. “Before I go to those teams, I say, ‘Hey, I’m a Muslim and I have to pray five times a day,’” Kanter said. “And they respect it so much that they give me a prayer room. So before the game, after the game, before practice, before I fly out, I can go to that room whenever I want and pray.”
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