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Subscribe to RSSTeen boxer Sadaf Rahimi, who aims to compete at this summer's London Olympics, hopes her achievements will be an example to others in her war-ravaged country. NBC News' Kiko Itasaka reports.
Olympic hopeful Sadaf Rahimi's family and coach have received death threats because she's a boxer.
The 18-year-old Afghan, who trains in a stadium where the Taliban used to carry out executions, says: "I want to show Afghan women don't stay behind closed doors." NBC News' Kiko Itasaka reports.
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There we go.. the answer to the whole dilemma.. let's just teach all Afgani women to beat up on Tali-men. ;)
After we are gone from that place(if not before) she will be killed by radicals. I hope she moves herself to a better country and changes her name to Sue Jones or something so the radical Muslims will leave her alone.
Good luck to you Sadaf Rahimi. I wish you and your family nothing but the best.
This girl has more courage in her little finger then all these jihadists and extremists united.
May God protect her and her family and trainer (and all the other girls and women who now go to school and practice sports, and any other activities that were not allowed under Taliban rule, and all the people who support them).
I fear ron may be right tho, sadly they would be safer if they left the country asap, before the NATO forces leave. Either way, I wish only the best for them.
Short article was short. Why bother publishing a two sentence blurb. What a waste of bandwidth.