A high school athlete was disqualified from playing at her school’s volleyball game after a referee cited that her hijab violated the rules. Angered by the lack of communication and the arbitrary enforcement of the rule, Najah began to cry. I just thought it was unfair,” Najah told HuffPost. It was because of her hijab.”Najah is not the first Muslim student-athlete to have been disqualified from a high school competition due to the hijab. In 2018, Muslim teen Noor Alexandria Abukaram was disqualified from her race in Ohio after completing her personal best time because officials said her hijab violated the uniform and she needed to have a waiver.

Source: Huffington Post September 18, 2020 22:18 UTC