Monday night’s blowout win by the Kansas City Chiefs is being talked about for a reason other than the final score. While Tom Brady’s sad face was hilarious to watch, things got real in the fourth quarter when Husain Abdullah was flagged for essentially exercising his right to religious freedom.
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Abdullah — who is a devote Muslim — celebrated his pick-six by dropping to his knees and performing a traditional Muslim prayer. Rather than applaud diversity in the NFL, a flag was thrown for excessive celebration, because that’s not at all offensive to every human sense and emotion.
After the game, Andy Reid had a stark and absolutely perfect response to the flag that shouldn’t have been thrown and isn’t thrown when other players celebrate their religion in the endzone.
Andy Reid postgame on Abdullah penalty: "When you go to Mecca, you should have the privilege to slide anywhere you want to slide."
— Mike Garafolo (@MikeGarafolo) September 30, 2014
This was the perfect response to all the gross things people are saying about Abdullah and to the flag that was thrown for absolutely no good reason. The flag is defensible though, as there’s no way for the ref to have known that Abdullah wasn’t sliding on his knees, he was praying — well, other than opening a book every once in a while.
There was nothing about the celebration that was wrong, as Abdullah wasn’t doing anything we haven’t seen other players do, and throwing a flag on it because the celebration was different shows blatant ignorance on the part of the NFL.
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