Jamilah Shahrour

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Jamilah Shahrour
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famous as
human & animal rights activist
also famous as
football player
football team
Rêvane-Est FC / national Ariddian team
position & number
forward, 7 / forward, 20

Jamilah Riham bint Yaseen Shahrour is an Ariddian human rights and animal rights activist and football player. She is a prominent member of the Ariddian Muslim Charitable Association and the Ariddian Red Star.

Born in Rêvane, she studied law at the prestigious University of Rêvane, where she obtained a doctoral thesis. She works as a part-time legal adviser for Ariddia's delegation to the United Nations, and also has a website on which she has compiled elements of basic, simplified national law, and offers legal advice to anyone who needs it. A practicing Muslim, she is a recognised expert on sharia, and offers online advice to those who seek a better understanding of Islamic principles. Her reading of Islam is, like that of the ACMA, one of tolerance, solidarity, generosity and open-mindedness.

Shahrour travels widely, participating in humanitarian issues, and preparing amateur video reports on humanitarian disasters, human rights violations and animal rights violations. She then transmits her reports to the media (notably PINA) to attract international attention to intolerable situations. Shahrour denounces these violations wherever they take place, in any society, whatever its religion, culture and socio-economic system. She has been known to deliver harsh condemnation against Mulsim and self-style "communist" countries, despite her personal beliefs. She is a renowned anti-capitalist activist, however, drawing attention to the social consequences of unregulated free markets. She has received a number of anonymous death threats.

Shahrour has met Pareesa Rahmati on several occasions, and has described her as "one of the people I admire most in the world".

Jamilah Shahrour also plays football professionally for Rêvane-Est FC in her home city. She is widely considered to be the team's best player, and has beeen selected the join the national Ariddian team for the upcoming World Cup 36.