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Related: As we PhotoBlogged earlier, the Iranian women's soccer team was banned from an Olympic qualifying tournament in a similar dispute
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Kulsoom Abdullah, of Atlanta, competes during the national weightlifting championships on Friday, July 15, in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Abdullah is the first woman to compete in the championships while wearing clothing that covers her legs, arms and head, in keeping with her Muslim faith, after the International Weightlifting Federation ruled on her behalf that athletes could wear a full-body "unitard" under the customary weightlifting uniform.
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Kulsoom Abdullah, of Atlanta, competes during the national weightlifting championships on Friday, July 15 in Council Bluffs, Iowa.
Charlie Neibergall / AP
Kulsoom Abdullah, of Atlanta, waits to compete at the national weightlifting championships on Friday, July 15 in Council Bluffs, Iowa.
Charlie Neibergall / AP
Kulsoom Abdullah, of Atlanta, competes during the national weightlifting championships on Friday, July 15 in Council Bluffs, Iowa.
After a hard-fought battle in the name of her faith, Muslim weightlifter Kulsoom Abdullah is now able to compete without violating her religious beliefs. Abdullah discusses her victory with msnbc's Thomas Roberts.
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its good and nice to hear that organizers accepted her code of dress.
also I think everyone should respect others culture. Associating majority with bad perception because of few people is not right direction. Moreover, when non-Muslims go on beaches of many Islamic countries no one asks them to wear full dress. I've seen thousand of non-Muslim women in dubai and egypt wearing bikini at beaches etc. Muslim never say that why they are over exposing. but when it comes of non-Muslim they even interfere in Muslims countries. such as they say why this is in Iran why in KSA. Do western have nothing else to do other than their so called DEMOCRACY thing and criticizing other nations?