Islamists kill tennis players in Baghdad for wearing shorts
By Kim Gamel
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published May 28, 2006
BAGHDAD -- An Iraqi tennis coach and two of his players were fatally
shot last week in Baghdad because they were wearing shorts, authorities
said yesterday, reporting the latest in a series of recent attacks
attributed to Islamic extremists.
In the Baghdad incident, gunmen stopped a car carrying the Sunni
Arab coach and two Shi'ite players, asked them to step out and then
shot them, said Manham Kubba, secretary-general of the Iraqi Tennis
Union.
Extremists had distributed leaflets warning people in the mostly
Sunni neighborhoods of Saidiyah and Ghazaliyah not to wear shorts,
police said.
"Wearing shorts by youth are prohibited because it violates the
principles of Islamic religion when showing forbidden parts of the
body. Also women should wear the veil," the leaflets said.
No one claimed responsibility for the slayings.
Sunni cleric Eid al-Zoubayi denounced the attack.
"Islamic religion is an easy religion, and it allows wearing sport
shorts as long as they don't show the forbidden parts of the body, so
the acts that are targeting the sport are criminal," he said.
It was the second incident involving athletes in just over a week.
Fifteen members of a tae kwon do team were kidnapped in western Iraq
while driving to a training camp in neighboring Jordan on May 17.
By Kim Gamel
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published May 28, 2006
BAGHDAD -- An Iraqi tennis coach and two of his players were fatally
shot last week in Baghdad because they were wearing shorts, authorities
said yesterday, reporting the latest in a series of recent attacks
attributed to Islamic extremists.
In the Baghdad incident, gunmen stopped a car carrying the Sunni
Arab coach and two Shi'ite players, asked them to step out and then
shot them, said Manham Kubba, secretary-general of the Iraqi Tennis
Union.
Extremists had distributed leaflets warning people in the mostly
Sunni neighborhoods of Saidiyah and Ghazaliyah not to wear shorts,
police said.
"Wearing shorts by youth are prohibited because it violates the
principles of Islamic religion when showing forbidden parts of the
body. Also women should wear the veil," the leaflets said.
No one claimed responsibility for the slayings.
Sunni cleric Eid al-Zoubayi denounced the attack.
"Islamic religion is an easy religion, and it allows wearing sport
shorts as long as they don't show the forbidden parts of the body, so
the acts that are targeting the sport are criminal," he said.
It was the second incident involving athletes in just over a week.
Fifteen members of a tae kwon do team were kidnapped in western Iraq
while driving to a training camp in neighboring Jordan on May 17.
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Ei kai sentään maahanmuuttajien taholta, kun kuitenkin Irakissa tapahtunutta...(onneksi)