July 7, 2009, - 11:35 am
No, the “Air” McNair Chick Was NOT a Muslima, But She Fled From Them; McNair the “Family Man”
By Debbie Schlussel
I’ve been getting a gazillion e-mails from readers and others, over the last several days, asking me why I haven’t written about the murder of former NFL star Steve LaTreal “Air” McNair.
Answer: Because it doesn’t interest me. A pro or former pro athlete millionaire having an affair with a chick not his wife. Yeah, that never happens. Never ever. A lover killing her paramour because he won’t get the divorce he lied about and promised to get and broke his empty promise to marry her. Wow, that never happens either. Who cares? Not me. The story adds nothing to the national or international discussion. And it’s not even entertaining, the way the Mark Sanford story is. It’s just a tragedy. And it’s a bore. Next.
And by the way, this “family man” and “role model for kids” was typical of NFL players in another way. McNair had four kids with three different women. And he was so creative, he named both of his first two kids, “Steve” (actually, one is Steve, Jr. and the other is Steven). George Foreman called, and he wants his baby-naming strategy back. See, even that’s unoriginal and boring.
A number of readers are also asking me if the apparent killer concubine, Sahel Kazemi, was a Muslim, based on her name, looks, etc. And the answer is no, she was not a Muslima. But the story of her religion and why she had to leave her native Iran is of note, since it’s yet another of the omnipresent stories of the real Islam.
Kazemi was born in Iran but left in 2000, fleeing religious persecution for their Baha’i faith, [her nephew Farzin] Abdi said. They spent 2 1/2 years in Turkey before moving to Florida. Later Kazemi dropped out of high school and, at age 17, moved with a boyfriend to Nashville, where she sometimes worked two or three jobs to support herself.
I feel sorry for the family of Kazemi, all of them forced to flee their own country because of Islam’s intolerance of its own moderate derivative religion, Baha’i faith (which is a very peaceful religion). And now, they face tragedy here, too, even as they were free to practice their religion here.
And I feel bad for the four sons of Steve McNair whom this “football hero” and “family man” abandoned and who will now no longer have a father, regardless of the millions he may have left them. Two of them are very young and will grow up without their father.
Well, I guess he was a “family man” after all, since he had several “families” . . . all of whom are now left behind for sure. And all of whom he deliberately chose to leave behind when he was alive.
African-American culture + NCAA + NFL/NBA = tragedy
All 3 of these ingredients enable and promote dysfunctional behavior. In most cases, it’s a train wreck waiting to happen.
Rick on July 7, 2009 at 12:20 pm