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Basketball team resists Saudi restrictions on female athletes.

Post Date: Apr 17, 2008 10:04 a.m.
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These Saudi women are going to play basketball, by gum, and there’s nothing you can do about it. Zahed, who prays regularly and wears a head scarf even when outside Saudi Arabia, said that nothing in Islam bans women from sports. "Our society just has to get used to it," she said. "It’s not yet normal for them to see women playing sports. But times are changing, and they have to start accepting it." (There’s even a video of them playing.)[ via] Read Story .

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