Re-blogged this from an amazing blog I came across called Ummah Sports, which carries a unique blend of news, opinions and articles relating to followers of Islam in professional sports. The site’s creator, Austin Burton, is in his own words “a Black man by birth, a sports writer and editor by trade, and a Muslim by the grace of Allah.” Among his “Muslim players to watch this NFL season” are Oday Aboushi, the Palestinian-American who currently plays with the Houston Texans (formerly with the N.Y. Giants), and Husain Abdullah of the Kansas City Chiefs.
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Although the NFL surpassing Major League Baseball as America’s favorite sport was a relatively recent occurrence, the NFL has been better than MLB at representing the social melting pot known as the United States for quite a while.
Exhibit A: While about 40 percent of MLB players are Black or Latino, only one MLB team has a Black manager, and only one has a Latino manager. In the NFL, six of the league’s current head coaches are Black or Latino.
Exhibit B: There has never been a female umpire or female coach/manager in MLB. This year, the NFL introduced its first female official and its first female assistant coach.
Exhibit C: In the entire history of MLB, there has been only one known Muslim ballplayer. In the NFL right now, there are at least a handful of known Muslim players.
Going into the 2015 regular season, which…
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United States Hypocrisy 
Football is my favorite sport and I am a Muslim. I like this post 1000x!
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Muslims playing in the NFL? Ben Carson will suck a valve with this news. Uncle Ben has obviously never spoken with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
But the great Kareem Abdul Jabbar has certainly heard of Ben Carson and isn’t afraid to give him a piece of his mind. (-:
http://www.bet.com/news/sports/2015/09/23/kareem-abdul-jabbar-blasts-ben-carson-for-anti-muslim-comments.html
Agreed. Kareem is a great man.
Tell it Kareem! Ben Carson, as a black male, should know better than to discriminate. The Civil Rights movement wasn’t so long ago…