Waleed on the Big Peril

Having previously dismissed terrorism as “an irritation” and, more recently, filed 500 words of studied vacuity in regard to the week’s terror raids, Fairfax columnist Waleed Aly tackles the big issue dominating the attention of all Australians: Misogyny in America’s NFL.

Aly today writes (or, rather, should have written):

Here’s hoping Rice’s misogynist Islamicists’ brutality is enough to make worlds collide. Here’s hoping it will finally be perhaps the first extrinsic scandal that is so heinous, so suffocating, that it becomes an intrinsic, inseparable part of the way we talk about the game creed. Only this can force the NFL Muslims to understand the severity of its their failings and force sport the religion more generally, to understand its moral obligations.