Spotlight: Mirza Wins Support of Indian Clerics

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Indian teenage tennis sensation Sania Mirza won the support of top Muslim clerics, days after a Muslim group in her hometown denounced her short skirts and sleeveless shirts.

What Mirza wears on the court "is the demand of the game," said Khalid Rashid of the All India Muslim Personal Law Board, which arbitrates religious issues for the nation's more than 160 million Muslims. "Perhaps, the fatwa (edict) was issued to gain cheap publicity."

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Spotlight: Mirza Wins Support of Indian Clerics

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