The View’s Rosie: NFL Penalty on Muslim Prayer Used to ‘Rally’ U.S. into War
Rosie O’Donnell said on ABC’s The View Tuesday that the NFL’s recent penalizing of a Muslim player who dropped to his knees and prayed after a touchdown was being used by some as means to rallying the U.S. into war.
Kansas City Chiefs safety Husain Abdullah was penalized Monday for “unsportsmanlike conduct” when he knelt in the end zone and prayed after scoring a touchdown. The NFL changed course thereafter, saying that there are exceptions in their rules when it comes to religious celebration during games.
On The View, co-host Whoopi Goldberg compared it to NFL free agent quarterback Tim Tebow, who is widely-known for kneeling down in prayer on the field. “And so why don’t other people get penalized?” Goldberg said. “Is this — are we feeding into Muslim fear?”
“Yes, I think as a nation we are,” said O’Donnell. “I think that, you know, it propels us to war. You have to rally the country in order to bomb a country that did nothing to you and you need to rally them and so that’s what I think that was. Anyone is allowed to represent their joy in whatever way possible for two minutes on a football field and I think it’s anti-Muslim bias.”
The U.S. is currently engaged in overseas airstrikes against ISIS, an Islamist terrorist network, based largely out of Syria and Iraq.
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