Having previously dismissed terrorism as “an irritation” and, more recently, filed 500 words of studied vacuity in regard to the week’s terror raids, Fairfax columnist Waleed Aly tackles the big issue dominating the attention of all Australians: Misogyny in America’s NFL.
Aly today writes (or, rather, should have written):
Here’s hoping
Rice’s misogynistIslamicists’ brutality is enough to make worlds collide. Here’s hoping it will finally be perhaps the first extrinsic scandal that is so heinous, so suffocating, that it becomes an intrinsic, inseparable part of the way we talk about thegamecreed. Only this can forcethe NFLMuslims to understand the severity ofitstheir failings and forcesportthe religion more generally, to understand its moral obligations.