Umar Lee

I am in America so I will not be able to watch the Amir Khan versus Dmitriy Salita fight from England tomorrow night. Khan is a Muslim from a Pakistani family and Salita is an Orthodox Jew living in Brooklyn. This will be the first time in boxing history that a Jew will fight a Muslim for a title.  The winner of this bout will not be the best in the world at 140 ( that honor will go to the winner of the bout between two Americans; Timothy Bradley and Lamont Peterson in my opinion) and there are other big names in this division like Juan Manuel Marquez, Juan Diaz, Paulie Malignaggi, Marcos Maidana, Zab Judah, Devon Alexander ( from St. Louis) , Ricky Hatton and Kendall Holt. However, this is a great human interest story and when they ring the bell it aint gonna be about Jew or Muslim its gonna be about boxing.  As I have said in the past; in order to seem moderate Muslim organizations have become female-dominated and there is very little in the way of masculine outlet for young Muslims and I belive sports provide such an outlet and out community needs to get more involved in sports.