A Ref Wouldn't Let This Girl Play in Her Hijab — Here's How Her Team Responded
Last week in response, the Overland High School girls soccer team took an inspiring stand in support of their teammate and her freedom of religious expression by donning headscarves representative of Aidah's hijab.
With more than 40,000 retweets and favorites so far, teammate Divine Davis' photo of the team in headscarves is making a loud statement about equality.
Last year, a high school flag football team in Florida similarly stood in solidarity with a team member who had been the victim of tauntings and racial slurs. But the team's tribute was only limited to pre-game warm-ups as the Florida High School Athletic Association has regulations on what can be worn during play as well.
http://www.policymic.com/articles/85471/a-ref-wouldn-t-let-this-girl-play-in-her-hijab-here-s-how-her-team-responded
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goalies 
ruin a good game of 'football'
Why not a broken neck, too?
Because nothing could possibly go wrong in playing a sport with long scarves dangling from your neck.
Yes, I know, sports fans, there's not certain PROOF about the headers. But more and more concern among doctors, especially about younger players. And it stands to reason that bashing your head against a ball several hundred times a week in practices and games might not be the best thing for delicate brains inside hard skulls.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/27/sports/soccer/researchers-find-brain-trauma-disease-in-a-soccer-player.html
Dr. Erin Bigler, a professor of psychology and neuroscience and the director of the Magnetic Resonance Imaging Research Facility:
“The brain is a very delicate organ, and it probably can withstand some injury, but the whole issue of repeated injury is a very different circumstance,” he said. “When it’s moving, it’s moving with its 200 billion brain cells. And those cells are being, in some way, mechanically deformed, some more than others, which gives you an appreciation of what’s going on with these collisions.”
Bigler said he would not recommend that players, especially young ones, routinely head the ball. The brain is not fully developed until about age 25, he said, making it more susceptible to injury.
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“The cold, hard reality is that the data don’t exist to address that question,” said Dr. Michael L. Lipton, a neuroscientist and neuroradiologist at Yeshiva University’s Albert Einstein College of Medicine, who studies the effects of heading. “We’re really in very much uncharted territory. So what should I do with my kid? That basically becomes the kind of risk-benefit assessment we have to make all the time in life.”
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Last year, the journal Radiology published results of a study by Lipton and others of 39 amateur adult soccer players, with a median age of 31, who had played soccer since childhood. It concluded that “heading is associated with abnormal white matter microstructure and with poorer neurocognitive performance.”
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Good grief, so many "issues" are so damned easy to solve.
They're even available in "team" colors.
The coach is a bigot and stupid, too.
Hijab, looks like colors and patterns are ok.
https://www.google.com/search?source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=2OssU8bsGdHMkAfO3oCQBg&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&biw=1600&bih=796&q=traditional%20colors%20for%20Hijab
Agree with you on arguing with teenagers. 
Nope - they were posing for a photo. And posing means they were forced to stand that way to please men.
Those ladies (not gals....) probably have a hard life of men looking at them and opening doors for them they don't need to have it compounded by having their sinful photos plastered all over a progressive message board.
(we need a door opening smilie)
the power of beautiful, intelligent young women.
Huge K&R
It appears not. Veiling takes a wide variety of forms, in some places a simple, sheer silk scarf draped over the hair in others a headscarf, and for a few a burka that covers most of their body. The latter is the least common form.
Somali teens in Minneapolis
Somali women at a protest in Minneapolis
The statement by this team is against bigotry, and those young girls are clearly more evolved than those outraged that women dare dress in ways they don't approve of.
Um, it is a safety concern. Nobody should be wearing loose-fitting clothing in sports.
I suppose if a wood shop banned hijabs, people would get up in arms over that as well.
want their country back.
This is one more of way of telling them that it's our country.
All of us. Together.
Whether they like it or not.
