{"id":581,"date":"2020-03-26T21:23:35","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T21:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/?p=581"},"modified":"2020-03-26T21:23:35","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T21:23:35","slug":"sports-and-islam-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/2020\/03\/26\/sports-and-islam-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Sports and Islam II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I decided to expand further upon my earlier post about the influence that Islamic law can have on athletes and sports fans. I read further about this topic and found the story of Jawahir Roble, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2019\/jun\/20\/from-somali-refugee-to-englands-first-female-muslim-football-referee-jawahir-roble-jj\">a former Somali refugee who eventually became England&#8217;s first female Muslim football referee<\/a>. I am a journalism major who loves sharing stories, so I wanted to share Jawahir&#8217;s inspiring story while commenting on the topic. Her story was featured in\u00a0<em>The Gaurdian<\/em>, a British publication, last June during the 2019 Women&#8217;s World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>If you read the piece it talks about her struggle that began when she was playing soccer with potatoes to old newspapers against a backdrop of gunshots in her home country. Not only did she have to overcome her worn-torn Somalian home she also broke through barriers rooted in Islamic culture. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.womeninsport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Muslim-Women-in-Sport.pdf?x99836\">Many Muslim women have been prevented or not able to participate in sports<\/a> and Robles family wanted her to focus on her studies instead of soccer.<\/p>\n<p>Roble has overcome so much in her life. Her story is an inspiring one that I feel like is relevant during our current crisis. If she can overcome all that she has been through then I am certain the COVID-19 crisis is an obstacle that all of us can get through.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I decided to expand further upon my earlier post about the influence that Islamic law can have on athletes and sports fans. I read further about this topic and found the story of Jawahir Roble, a former Somali refugee who eventually became England&#8217;s first female Muslim football referee. I am a journalism major who loves [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9196679,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9196679"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":582,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581\/revisions\/582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}