Tim Tebow, Step Aside
Is not America a great country, one that is justly proud of its liberal politics, that welcomes the stranger in its midst, that opens its doors to refugees legal and illegal and contemplates amnesty for the latter, that refuses to accept religious bigotry, that legislates against hate speech and condemns all forms of ethnic prejudice? Why, even Christians are tolerated despite their extremism, allowed to have their holiday trees and occasionally even their nativity scenes. A country that can indulge so radical a faith is surely unique.
Moreover, in every area of endeavor we see minority individuals rising to the top or exercising preeminence — native professors in the universities, Black Panthers in the voting stations, Mexican illegals careening on the freeways and cartel guerrillas romping across the border, the once-excluded projecting power in the Department of Justice, and yes, even devout Muslims on football teams.
Regarding the latter, consider the exuberant reception given to Taj Tariq, quarterback of the Denver Broncos. Despite the fact that he has difficulty managing a game for the full sixty minutes and his passes tend to float in the air like kites whose strings have snapped, he is nevertheless celebrated for his unconventional behavior on the field. Before each game, Tariq is seen to prostrate himself near the sidelines, removing his cleats, spreading a prayer carpet before him, and performing his devotions. And after the game is over, whether in victory or defeat, he will repeat these observances, often leading his teammates in collective prayer to the supreme deity who presides over all things great and small.
The enthusiasm with which Tariq’s acts of communion and adoration are greeted by his fans as well as by members of the press is truly heartwarming. As Martin Marprelate of the New York Times writes, “Was not President Obama’s appreciation of the contribution of Islam to American democracy and prosperity, both in his Cairo speech and at the White House Ramadan dinner, factually correct? And is not Taj Tariq a living testimony to the greatness of this nation? Are not his invocations on the field of play a lesson to us all in the spirit of clemency and fellow-feeling? One thing is certain. The contribution of Islam to American football can no longer be denied.”
Marprelate’s remarks are by no means anomalous. America has taken Taj Tariq to its bosom. Prayer rugs have outstripped keffiyehs and Palestinian flags in market sales. “No home should be without one” goes the current advertising slogan. These tapestries of faith are regularly unrolled before the TV set in millions of American homes during the telecast of football games. Even the disaffected youth of the Occupy Wall Street movement have been sleeping on them, and corporate millionaires rarely fly without their monogrammed and decorative runners.
Lionized on the popular TV program The View as a Muslim “hunk with spunk,” Tariq admonished his female hosts for unseemly levity and recommended the sartorial modesty of the burqa. “After all,” he opined, “we wear uniforms and padding,” and continued, “What’s good for the camel is good for the mule.” Tariq had no doubt that his “view” would be vigorously supported by the vast majority of American feminists, and he has not been disappointed in his conviction. In a subsequent interview with the Washington Post’s Joe Btfsplk, Tariq praised America for its hospitality to Islam in all its manifestations and for its recognition of the Islamic donation to American life, adding that the next step would be the complete embrace of the Muslim faith. “As a touchdown must be converted,” he observed, “so too must Americans convert to Islam if the game is to be won.”
Americans appear to be complying. Some have even been heard to cry, “Taj Tariq for president!” The frenzy that has become known as Tariqing is now sweeping the nation as people from all walks of life cast themselves to the ground in ardent worship, mimicking the piety of Taj Tariq before each and every enterprise of moment. And the phenomenon is spreading rapidly as America belatedly acknowledges both the Islamic gift to the NFL and the Islamico-Socialist foundation of Western civilization.
(Also read Andrew Klavan: “Tebowing for Tebow“)
Having some fun David?
you forgot to mention how putting burqas on the cheerleaders has led to a spike in cheerleader calendar sales.
watching the reaction of some other athletes (past and present) makes me wonder if there isn’t something else in play here, maybe like making all the end zone dancing look foolish by comparison? i’ve been tired of that crap for some time now.
I don’t mind the end zone dances– it’s the absurd acts after making something as common as a 1st down or a decent tackle that get on my nerves. Congratulations, but you’re a genetic freak essentially DESIGNED to make 1st downs– get over yourself.
cute and what most of us are thinking (well those of us who can still think freely) but i think the scenario would be more like dead silence from the media with anyone daring to speak about it being labeled a bigoted, racist, redneck, ignorant islamophobe
oh and of course if anyone spoke against it the “muslim world” would explode and start randomly killing people putting our troops in danger (our troops in danger? seriously?) and it would be all the ignorant infidels fault
Leciat the only danger our troops are facing is from the damned gutless politicians and the so-called media, when we have politicians and other gutless a55holes in high office wanting to courts martial our troops just because they pissed on garbage you figure,
Well, one sure thing is,…….there would be numerous, ‘delay of game’ penalties. I doubt Taj will willingly want to call a play, once he got his hands, ‘under center’.
So … it’s no longer a pigskin?
Winner
score! best comment of the day…but cheerleaders in burqa’s is a close second.
Absolute gold, Sir.
Absolute.
LOL!
LOL! I think the NFL would at least consider giving in to Tariq’s demand that the ball be made from infidel skin.
Piss on it.
I apprciate the contributions muslims have made to not just the American community but the world community as well.
1. World trade Center Attack in 93
2. USS Cole
3. Major Hassan
4. 911
Murdering my relative in cold blood, a stranger to him, and stating at the trial; “(I must) kill two white infidels to enter paradise…”
Thanks a whole bunch.
Thank you. Your little “what if” has just illustrated a point I have been making for weeks, that if Tebow was from “any other religion than Christianity”…..Oh Hell I’ll just say it, “IF he was a Muslim” then 95% of the people expressing discomfort to outright disgust at his overt religiosity would be bending over backwards to kiss his posterior. And on the otherhand I would guess about 95% of Tebow’s supporters would show the same courtesy to that hypothetical Muslim quarterback for being a man of his faith. You remember that? Tolerance and multiculturalism? Which unfortunately for many on the left means, “All cultures deserve respect EXCEPT ours!”
“All cultures deserve respect EXCEPT ours!”
I dunno Teach, wouldn’t one have to consider themselves a member of “our,” culture before that statement can be qualified? These are a pack of fools and traitors who seem to revel, in their own person and in packs, in being “above,” the cultural scope of the U.S.
Just a thought. I believe you are spot on that should Tebow be anything outside a Christian practitioner (and perhaps Jewish), he would be lauded by any and all sources available.
Lionized on the popular TV program The View as a Muslim “hunk with spunk,” Tariq admonished his female hosts for unseemly levity and recommended the sartorial modesty of the burqa.
Good idea. Especially for Behar, she of the nonstop mouth that doesn’t appear to be connected to a brain.
Actually, getting most of the View’s hosts to wear burkas would be rendering a true public service. Some people look better wearing a bag over their heads, or in the case of the burka, their entire body.
so true except for Elisabeth Hasselbeck. she is by far the best looking one-as a matter of fact the only one that looks worth a flip. and by far the smartest one,
I continue to be impressed with Tim Tebow and the contribution he is making as an athlete and role-model!
http://dave-lucas.blogspot.com/2012/01/tebow-time.html
Tariq is one of my athletic heroes, too. Yes, some Christians are saying that if he were Christian he wouldn’t be lionized (as it were) for showing the same religious devotions.
But this is a poor analogy. After all, you can look around you and see the many and influential contributions Muslims have made to America, as referred to by none other than the president himself, Barack Harold Obama. However, it may be impolitic to point this out but while certainly not all Christians are terrorists, there is a worldwide movement inspired by certain Christian interpretations that carries out frequent and bloody attacks. Until America’s Christians come to terms with this and are able to deal with it, they should keep quieter and not insist that anyone someone looks at them sideways it is an instance of oppression.
I’d say the key to last weekend’s game had less to do with the All Mighty and more to do with Denver coaches letting Tariq loose a bit more to strut his stuff.
I hope tomorrow’s game against New England for the division championship lives up to the hype.
Solway, just buck up and ride that barrel down Niagara Falls if Mexican illegals bother you so much. Other than the snide “illegals, Cartel, Mexican” crap – great column.
Do you have a problem with facts? Aren’t cartels infiltrating states like California? Isn’t the majority of illegals coming in from Mexico? Even if they are from other Central American countries they do cross from Mexico.
In his own way, Tim Tebow is the Herman Cain of his sport. For years, black quarterbacks have played the same way with varying results. Tebow plays like what we expect a black quarterback to be, an athlete first, pocket passer second. To their credit, I have not heard many black NFLers say things like what Isiah Thomas said about Larry Bird.
Of course, football. To play goalkeeper in a soccer game and then the Iman call you to pray in the middle of penalty kick…
I guess Tim Tebow will have to grow a beard, eh?
I can just see Taj Tariq’s post game press conference: “But first, death to America and death to Israel, and I would also like to thank my team mates, at least the ones who wish to keep their heads attached to their bodies”
Taj has declared the end zone a makeshift mosque and every touchdown will be celebrated with a prayer rug and prostration. Any referee that flags the ceremony loses a hand.
The half time show will feature “The Mosquettes”. Wardrobe malfunctions will result in stoning before the start of the second half.
I don’t often get to the end of an article and wonder what the author’s point was, but that’s where I am right now.
You must live in isolation, somewhere in the woods perhaps, if you don’t get his point. But then satire isn’t for everybody and satire spiked with truths even less so.
Yea; I know! And what’s with poetry anyway?
Oh, Dave F., I think you often get to the end of an article and wonder what the author’s point was. Don’t sell yourself short.
Whatever the deity, it likes Tom Brady a lot more.
Yes, indeed, if the deity was in on it.