In the Name of Allah, the Most Merciful, the Most Beneficent Doubles pair shows unifying spirit Israeli Hadad, Pakistani Muslim Qureshi ignore politics http://www.msnbc.com/news/773253.asp
WIMBLEDON, England, June 27 — The Wimbledon men’s doubles pair of Amir Hadad and Aisam Ul-Haq Qureshi are doing their part to show the unifying spirit of sport. Hadad is an Israeli and Qureshi a Muslim from Pakistan. BEFORE THE TOURNAMENT, Qureshi asked Hadad if he had a partner. They shook hands, entered the qualifying tournament and made it through to the main doubles draw. "I didn’t even think about Qureshi being a Muslim until I went home and found out it was big news in Israel, that a Jew was playing with a Muslim," Hadad said. "I just thought of him as another tennis player, a human being. "Maybe if we get far here we’ll do some good because people will see Muslims and Jews can be friends." Hadad and Qureshi won their first-round match 7-5, 7-6 (5), 7-6 (2) over Martin Rodriguez of Argentina and Tom Vanhoudt of Belgium. They play Julian Knowle of Austria and Michael Kohlmann of Germany in the second round, likely on Friday. -------------------------------------- FARIDI NETWORK - sharing the knowledge http://faridi.net
