SXSW Muslim incident, The SXSW alignment issued a account answer for the adventure and explained that the being amenable for blockage in Muslim Muhammad was a advance who was acting in error.
“I was just asked to abolish my hijab at SXSW Registration for my ID badge. I can’t accomplish this being up,” Ibtihaj Muhammad tweeted from the Austin, Texas, event.
She continued, “Even afterwards I explained it was for religious reasons, he insisted I had to abolish my hijab for the photo to accept my badge.”
But, Muhammad said, she didn’t even accept the actual brand — and was instead accustomed the brand of anyone with a similar-sounding name.
“From now on my name is Tamir & I plan for Time Warner Inc,” Muhammad tweeted with a photo of her badge.
SXSW said in a account to PEOPLE that it was “embarrassed” and that the adventure was the plan of “one advance who fabricated an aloof appeal and that being has been removed for the continuance of the event.
“We are ashamed by this and accept apologized to Ibtihaj in person, and aboveboard affliction this incident.”
Muhammad is training for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro area she could become the aboriginal Muslim U.S. woman to attempt at the Olympic Games in a hijab. “When a lot of humans account an Olympic fencer, they apparently do not brainstorm a being like me. Fortunately, I am not a lot of people. I accept consistently believed that with harder work, dedication, and perseverance, I could one day airing with my U.S. teammates into Olympic history.” Muhammad says that angry has accomplished her “how to aspire higher, sacrifice, plan harder and affected defeat. I wish to attempt in the Olympics for the United States to prove that annihilation should arrest anyone from extensive their goals — not race, adoration or gender. I wish to set an archetype that annihilation is accessible with perseverance.”
“I was just asked to abolish my hijab at SXSW Registration for my ID badge. I can’t accomplish this being up,” Ibtihaj Muhammad tweeted from the Austin, Texas, event.
She continued, “Even afterwards I explained it was for religious reasons, he insisted I had to abolish my hijab for the photo to accept my badge.”
But, Muhammad said, she didn’t even accept the actual brand — and was instead accustomed the brand of anyone with a similar-sounding name.
“From now on my name is Tamir & I plan for Time Warner Inc,” Muhammad tweeted with a photo of her badge.
SXSW said in a account to PEOPLE that it was “embarrassed” and that the adventure was the plan of “one advance who fabricated an aloof appeal and that being has been removed for the continuance of the event.
“We are ashamed by this and accept apologized to Ibtihaj in person, and aboveboard affliction this incident.”
Muhammad is training for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro area she could become the aboriginal Muslim U.S. woman to attempt at the Olympic Games in a hijab. “When a lot of humans account an Olympic fencer, they apparently do not brainstorm a being like me. Fortunately, I am not a lot of people. I accept consistently believed that with harder work, dedication, and perseverance, I could one day airing with my U.S. teammates into Olympic history.” Muhammad says that angry has accomplished her “how to aspire higher, sacrifice, plan harder and affected defeat. I wish to attempt in the Olympics for the United States to prove that annihilation should arrest anyone from extensive their goals — not race, adoration or gender. I wish to set an archetype that annihilation is accessible with perseverance.”
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