Put to Death for Short Shorts
From the BBC (via Andrew Sullivan):
The coach of Iraq’s tennis team and two players were shot dead in Baghdad on Thursday, said Iraqi Olympic officials.Coach Hussein Ahmed Rashid and players Nasser Ali Hatem and Wissam Adel Auda were killed in the al-Saidiya district of the capital.
Witnesses said the three were dressed in shorts and were killed days after militants issued a warning forbidding the wearing of shorts.
Other Iraqi athletes have been targeted in recent incidents.
Good thing we freed Iraqis from the grips of tyranny.
A fatwah against shorts? No!
A fatwah against spandex? Probably justifiable.