I’ll cut to the chase. I have some important family business to attend to this afternoon. And I am running on very little sleep. I will be looking to promote diaries from you guys. Keep writing, you are producing great pieces that stimulate great conversations. Also it looks like Booman will be out of action for an indefinite time. I should know more about that sometime next week. All the more reason to write, and also for people to check out the diaries section on the right hand margin.
Meanwhile for starters, I saw this story this morning, and said to myself, if this were Tim Tebow, the most famous Christian athlete in America (but a mediocre former pro football player), the NFL would never have done this to him:
When Kansas City Chiefs safety Husain Abdullah intercepted a Tom Brady pass and returned it for a touchdown Monday night, he did what so many other NFL players do to celebrate a big play: He paused to make a religious gesture of thanks.
But Abdullah, a devout Muslim, found that his religious display was met with less latitude than, say, Tim Tebow when he brought Tebowing into the NFL. Abdullah was penalized 15 yards for unsportsmanlike conduct because he slid to the ground, then knelt in in the end zone.
I guess it is unsportmanlike for Americans of other faiths to publicly pray to anyone at a sports event unless that prayer is to Jesus. What a country!
