Recently in Baghdad, an Iraqi tennis coach and two of his players were shot to death because they were wearing shorts. That's right, shorts! Guess who the perpetrators were? The Islamofascists. Associated Press writes:

The men were killed Wednesday, a week after the warning was issued in leaflets distributed in southwest Baghdad.

An official of the Iraqi Tennis Union says gunmen stopped the car the athletes were riding in and asked them to step out before shooting them.

The coach was Sunni and the two players were Shiite.

It was the second attack against athletes in just over a week. A taekwondo team was kidnapped in western Iraq on May 17. The 15 athletes were members of a sports club that hopes to one day send athletes to the Olympics.

     What is wrong with the killers? Everything. From their twisted interpretation of their so-called holy texts to their unhealthy Weltenschaaung. From their incurable lunacy to their outrageous lack of fashion sense. And lack of playfulness, I may add. Not only do they hate sports attire that exposes a lot of skin, but they hate all sports, period.

     I'm not a big lover of sports as I am a big lover of beauty pageants. I have been following pageants for nearly thirty years and I can tell you that I have never heard of a beauty pageant that does not include a swimsuit competition. Even Miss America, which does not consider itself a beauty pageant but a scholarship pageant (read: you don't have to be pretty to win) has always had a swimsuit event. In virtually every beauty pageant, the contestants are given the option to wear a one-piece or a two-piece. There is never the option to wear a loose swimwear (you know, the kind that does not touch your genitalia). When a British Iraqi Muslim woman, Sarah Mendly, was participating in the Miss England 2005 contest, she opted to wear a one-piece swimsuit with a sarong - a swimwear that might be considered traditional or conservative by those who have been accustomed to wearing a bikini. Despite Mendly's "modest" swimwear, Muslim leaders in Britain called for Mendly's withdrawal from the pageant. Mendly eventually won and represented England in Miss World.

     Islamic countries have been sending beautiful young women to international beauty pageants, and several Muslim women have won international beauty titles, such as Lebanon's Georgina Rizk (Miss Universe 1971) who, by the way, chose to wear a two-piece see-through harem pants (left photo); Turkey's Azra Akin (Miss World 2002) who wore a two-piece swimwear (center photo) and Afghanistan's Vida Samadzai who caused international sensation when she wore a two-piece red bikini in Miss Earth 2003 (right photo):

     Although Samadzai did not win Miss Earth 2003, she did receive a special award called "Beauty For A Cause."  In Miss Universe 2005, Indonesia's Artika Sari Devi wore a one-piece swimsuit and made the top 15, despite protests from angry Islamofascists in her country. Samadzai and Devi truly deserve a medal of courage for defying their Islamofascist detractors, more so that the two women come from countries where Islam has a stronghold on people's lives unlike Lebanon (which is very Western) or Turkey (which is a secularized society). But the point is, no matter where a woman lives, or whether she's pretty or ugly, she should have the fundamental right to wear whatever she pleases.

     Modest Islamic Swimwear

Warm Welcome for Sharia Swimsuit

"Oh my, God! Her legs are exposed!"