A visibly Muslim footballer’s public prayer earned mainstream white fandom in England

Evidence

Mohamed Salah thrust himself into the center of the soccer world out of relative obscurity. In 2017, Liverpool F.C.—one of the top teams in England’s Premier League, and one of the most famous clubs in the world—signed the curly haired, bearded Egyptian to its roster. … Immediately after scoring a goal, Salah would fall to his knees and bow his head on the field. This was no celebration. This was prayer. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1069

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the thesis that individual Muslim visibility can temporarily suspend, but not dismantle, Islamophobic structures.