Aqib Jawed speaks about Sports and Religion
Yesterday i got chance to watch another episode of geo’s famous program Ek Din Geo k Saath
in which Aqib jawed was being interviewed.At one stage host sohail warraich asked him about religious influence on current Pakistani team.What he replied was very lame to me.He said that current image of muslims is not good and current physical appearance of players doesn’t look good so therefore it should be quit.He further added that current team could not be compared with Imran khan’s team(BTW he was being a big butt licker of Imran Khan in Interview,i dont know why.) because they looked more handsome,he didnt use the word handsome but this is what he wanted to say.What a moron!!.His idiotic statment tempted me to make this post(Thanks anyway Aaqib).
I am just wondering that why a sportsman can’t be religious or could appear as religious in field?Somebody tell to aqib that this is not with Pakistani team or with muslims only.Many players in world do demonstrate their association with religion.For instance famous wrestler Tripple-H.
Do you see cross sign on his forehead?This is his style to make entry in arena.If you are fan of wrestling then you would have noticed his underwear with Cross sign on it.I dont say its wrong.Its his right to demonstrate his association with his belief,similarly other also have right to demonstrate their associations with religion.Therefore,its nothing wrong if we have players like Saeed anwar,Inzy and Afridi in beard.It doesnt make them ugly.
Because these Indian and English cricket players also dont ugly or fundamentalist at all.
I am not much into sports and cricket,hockey or sometimes soccer are the games which I would watch on TV.Therefore i made a search online to search articles about players’ association with religion and found few intresting facts.According to this article:
Deion Sanders, the former bad boy of two sports, is now a devout Christian, and when he returned to baseball this week, he pointed his fingers to the sky three times during his first home-run trot in three years.
Sandy Koufax, probably the greatest lefthanded pitcher ever and an observant Jew, made international headlines in 1965 because he refused to pitch the first game of the World Series for the Dodgers because it fell on Yom Kippur.
Vince Lombardi, the legendary coach of the Green Bay Packers, took his team to Catholic mass every Sunday before games
So i think its NOTHING wrong to exercise religion during game or by players.Everyone has right to do it.If aqib fails to understand this basic thing then its not others fault.By the way i never believed he was some good player. Once he took 7 wickets in sharjah match against India and I do believe that whole credit doesnt goes to him,some work done by umpires as well.
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