Slam dunk for Salam Stars: Milwaukee's all-Muslim girls basketball team appears in graphic novel
In Wisconsin, there are 971 high school basketball teams with more than a half a million players in total.
But there is only one Salam Stars.
“I like saying that I’m playing from a Muslim school and it’s an all-girls team and we’ve gone pretty far. We’ve won games. We won conference championships. It kind of shows we’re at the same level as other people,” Aamina Farooq, senior and player on the Stars , told WPR’s “Wisconsin Today.”
The basketball team is part of the Salam School district, a private prep school on Milwaukee’s southside. It is one of the largest Muslim schools in the U.S., with enrollment of more than 1,000 students from kindergarten to 12th grade.
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