Muslim public figures carry faith representation duties that ordinary Muslims lack

Evidence

Conscious of his unrivaled stature with Muslims and cognizant of the non-Muslim eyes that followed him, Khabib stated, “Non-Muslims don’t read the Quran, they don’t read the Hadith [the collected record of the Prophet Mohammed’s deeds], they read you. So be a good ambassador of Islam.” — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1094

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies Hadith as the collected record of the Prophet Mohammed’s deeds, and introduces the notion of the Muslim athlete as lived representative.
• SEED: Angle: the burden of informal religious representation carried by visible minorities in sport and entertainment — who gets cast as ‘ambassador’ and what that asks of them.