Women in Hijabs Play Sports. Get Over It. – Daily Beast

The coverage of Muslim women athletes often emphasizes their traditional roles in an exotic culture, and makes their uniforms and veils into the topic of much fascination and tokenization. According to a 2014 Women’s Media Center report, almost 90 percent of sportswriters are white, straight, able-bodied men. Therein lies much of the problem. When stories on Muhammad emphasize she is *not* an oppressed and subservient woman, it just reinforces the unfortunate myth that most Muslim women *are* meek and oppressed.