Determined to take offence
It’s not often that I mention athletes on this blog and I have to admit that my knowledge of tennis is so sketchy that when this story popped up on my RSS feed, the name Sania Mirza meant nothing to me.
However, it appears that the 21 year old tennis player has been offending local Muslims… by dressing as a tennis player. This has led to her finding herself at the centre of a series of disputes involving her dress and disrespecting India’s national flag, cumulating in an announcement that she will no longer appear in tournaments in her home country.
Mirza revealed she had come close to quitting the game after she was accused of disrespecting India’s flag during the Hopman Cup in Australia last month.
She was pictured sitting with her feet resting on a table next to an Indian flag.
Although Mirza said the pose was accidental, a private citizen filed a complaint with a court in the central Indian city of Bhopal under the Prevention of Insult to the National Honour Act.
Whichever idiot filed this complaint really does need to reacquaint himself with reality.
Monday 04 Feb 2008 | Paul | India
