I am well aware of who this talented athlete is, as I have seen her perform on several occasions.
"Covered in glory; A top student and now the top high school scorer in state history, Bilqis Abdul-Qaadir knows there is more to life than a game. But does she have game" by Marty Dobrow, Globe Correspondent | February 8, 2009
Bilqis Abdul-Qaadir competes with her legs and arms covered and with a hijab (or head scarf) on her head. (Globe Staff Photo / Michele McDonald)
SPRINGFIELD - Bilqis Abdul-Qaadir walks quietly through the halls of the New Leadership Charter School. She is soft-spoken and polite. The youngest child of a devout Muslim family, the 5-foot-3-inch senior believes in modesty, and is determined not to call attention to herself.
It is an impossible dream.
Bilqis cannot help standing out. For one thing, she is the top-ranked student in her class. She wants to study pre-med in college with an eye toward being a cardiac surgeon. "The heart," she says, "is most interesting to me."
Then there is her presence on the basketball court, where she is a magnet for the eyes of all fans, and not just because she competes with her legs and arms completely covered beneath her uniform, and with a hijab (or head scarf) over the top of her head. The point guard dazzles every night with a game that is a nonstop whir of creative fury. She darts into the lane against much bigger players, flicking in layups and reverses and hitting teammates with no-look passes. She drains pull-up jumpers and step-back 3-pointers. Despite a steady diet of double-teams and box-and-one defenses designed to stop her, she is averaging, this season, an astonishing 41.3 points per game.
A fifth-year varsity player, Bilqis (pronounced BILL-KEACE) will attend the University of Memphis this fall on a full scholarship and will become the first player at a top tier Division 1 school to compete in full Muslim dress.
Her look has drawn some curiosity, and, at times, some taunts.
"Sometimes they yell out, 'Terrorist!' " said teammate Ashanti Miller. "She gets mad, but she doesn't lash out. I don't know how she handles it. She just takes it."
The lying, biased, divisive, distorting, obfuscating, omitting, Muslim-hating, agenda-pushing, war-promoting, Zionist-controlled, piece of crap just can't help themselves, can they?
I'm sorry, but I HAVE NEVER HEARD THAT at ANY GAME!!
Bilqis is NOT the ONLY MUSLIM PLAYER around here, and I HAVE NEVER HEARD THAT SAID ANYWHERE!!
Then again, for a BIG-CITY, AGENDA-PUSHING piece of garbage that likes to portray us all as a bunch of hayseed redneck racists out here, FUCK OFF!!!!!!
The GLOBE is LYING TO YOU, readers! I DON'T BELIEVE the QUOTE!!!!!
In post-Sept. 11 America, Bilqis isn't the first Islamic athlete to endure virulent trash talk. But over time, she says, such abuse has become less frequent.
IF ANY!!!!
Yeah, let's get to the HEART of THAT CIA/Mossad sponsored FALSE FLAG INSIDE JOB, MSM!!!!!!!
Can you tell how OUTRAGED I AM? That the JEW WAR DAILY would bring its ZIONIST, MUSLIM-HATING AX-GRINDING PROFANITY into the SANCTUARY of BASKETBALL!!!!!!!!!!
Figures: Three-Pointers For Peace
Yup, NO MATTER WHAT ISSUE the ZIONIST AmeriKan MSM is going to GRIND THAT AGENDA!!!!!
Of course, the fact that she's got more game than any player on the floor tends to silence the crowd. Or bring them to their feet. Last week, before a packed gym of friends, family, fans, and media, the 18-year-old Bilqis became the top scorer in Massachusetts high school history, breaking the mark of 2,710 points that basketball legend Rebecca Lobo set in the winter of 1991-92.
Like the game she plays, Bilqis Abdul-Qaadir was born in Springfield. She grew up in a home that fostered her academic focus, her devotion to Islam, and her passion for all things basketball.....
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I don't need to read the biased Globe's interpretation of the tremendous young woman's family or life; I've sat near them, and chatted in passing.
