Islamic sensitivity wages an unfriendly match against the Milan soccer team
posted at 2:30 pm on December 12, 2007 by Bryan
I’m guessing that this clown is using Islamist sentiments because he’s a poor sport. Or maybe he’s a poor sport because he’s an Islamist clown. Either way, Milan ought to give him the back of its best lawyer’s hand.
A Turkish lawyer who’s an expert on European law, Baris Kaska, is asking Uefa to cancel the three points Inter earned in their win against Fenerbahce in the recent Champions League match.
The Nerazzurri had beaten the Turkish champions 3-0 at home to qualify for the next round of the Champions League.
The reason for the appeal is unusual: the celebratory shirt for Inter’s centenary worn by the team that night, and on several other occasions this season, offended many people in Turkey.
The shirt’s scheme saw a big red cross on a white background, a symbol of the city of Milan, and reminded many of an emblem of the order of the Templars, which is considered offensive in Islamic culture.
If European law ends up being used by a Turk to suppress Milan’s team symbol in its own home stadium, then European law is a pig.
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If it is any insult to Islam, then it’s a good thing.
Where can we order these? Mary K. Hamm will need one as well.
Wuptdo on December 12, 2007 at 2:36 PM
Right here. It’s a handsome jersey, isn’t it. And I say that as an Arsenal fan.
Bryan on December 12, 2007 at 2:38 PM
Ummmm, when you mess witha soccer team, don’t their fans tend to riot and kick seriouse arse? The muslims may be biting off more then they can chew…
Wyrd on December 12, 2007 at 2:44 PM
Fixed.
eeyore on December 12, 2007 at 2:44 PM
They’ve recently introduced the new “Islamic Coin Flipping Game”, a fun little diversion for Muslims and non-Muslims to play together.
The rules for the Muslim player are as follows:
“Heads: I win. Tales: you lose.”
Hawkins1701 on December 12, 2007 at 2:47 PM
Back at the end of the Eleventh century, Western Europe answered the call from the Byzantines to help regain territory captured by the Islamic Turkish forces. The Turks were murdering and raping their way across Asia Minor in the name of Mohammad (things never change). The Byzantines saw the writing on the wall. All of their Roman lands in the Middle East were savaged, with Christians and Jews now living under Islamic law as Dhimmis or worse. Even the great Christian center of Damascus had been destroyed.
The armies of Western Kings engaged the armies of Islam and beat them back to Jerusalem, which fell in 1099. The cross was later used to identify young nations in Europe based on different color combinations, but the symbol of the cross was first worn during the Crusades as a sign for all to remember that the armies fought the Islamic savages in order to rescue their Christian brothers in captive Islamic lands and free the Holy Land so that Christians could once again worship where Christ had once walked.
Hening on December 12, 2007 at 2:47 PM
It looks like the Turkish seljuks were expanding their empire at the expense of the Byzantines and Armenians while the Crusades were going on. Before and after the Crusades too.
forest on December 12, 2007 at 2:48 PM
Drat, I meant tails.
Ah well.
Hawkins1701 on December 12, 2007 at 2:49 PM
I guess he would prefer a severed limb, bloody perhaps? Or a ‘T’ with an open area ( can’t show mo’s face ya know) with some hate rhetoric? Like “BEHEAD THOSE WHO INSULT ISLAM?”
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That’d be my ‘guess’.
shooter on December 12, 2007 at 2:53 PM
You can pre-order, and put a name on the back.
Would “Mohammed” fit?
yo on December 12, 2007 at 2:55 PM
Nice jerseys; I thought maybe it was for the English National team at first. I’d even wear one, and I’m an Irish/Scots/Dane.
Frozen Tex on December 12, 2007 at 2:55 PM
Hee, hee, heee!
Frozen Tex on December 12, 2007 at 2:55 PM
I just cannot WAIT to hear my fiery Milan friend on this one. She’s a HUGE supporter of Milan soccer.
And, wonder of wonders, a conservative. I was beginning to wonder if there were any left in Europe.
Vanceone on December 12, 2007 at 3:05 PM
Nah… he’s just a dipsh1t provocateur. Soccer fans don’t usually care about these things.
AlexB on December 12, 2007 at 3:06 PM
How ’bout Inter substitutes a small teddy bear t-shirt emblem named Mohammed?
IntheNet on December 12, 2007 at 3:19 PM
Anytime islam and its’ thugs are ‘offended’ is a real good thing, especially when it happens in Europe!
countywolf on December 12, 2007 at 3:19 PM
Oh my
GodLordgosh someone is offended again?Well……….well………
Merry Darn Christmas!
drjohn on December 12, 2007 at 3:24 PM
Yes, Bryan, it is a handsome jersey. And I couldn’t help but noticing that if you reverse the red and white, you get the Danish flag! So everyone buy Danish and wear the Milan soccer jersey. (Just don’t tell any Italians that it’s a “soccer” jersey. To them, it’s a “football” jersey, you know.)
Bigfoot on December 12, 2007 at 3:31 PM
Carlsberg and Tuborg whenever I can get it!
Frozen Tex on December 12, 2007 at 3:35 PM
Typical Islamic sports logic. Usually when teams feel disrespected, they perform better due to the extra motivation. Not so here, what a surprise.
Notice how the insult was only called-out after the Islamists lost the game.
Laughable.
awake on December 12, 2007 at 3:45 PM
A computer program on Linux and BSD that find most useful is krusader. I use it to synchronize large directories on my computer. We all know it’s just a matter of time before the program gets renamed to keep our hypersensitive friends quiet.
thuja on December 12, 2007 at 3:46 PM
Sure. Then it becomes the “negative Templar” flag.
drjohn on December 12, 2007 at 4:17 PM
And the lawyer had how much placed with the bookies?
Limerick on December 12, 2007 at 4:20 PM
It’s too bad that they are offended. It isn’t offensive so it shouldn’t offend them. If they are offended then they’ll just have to be offended. You can’t give someone offense, they have to take it.
Christians are offended that their religion specifically denigrates Jesus as ‘like Mohommed’. Maybe we should all riot against Muslims because we are offended by their general doctrine.
No other faith calls out other specific faiths as a requirement of belief. Islam is offensive. If they are offended, well you reap what you sow.
ThackerAgency on December 12, 2007 at 4:20 PM
Drawing from a commenter on the source’s thread and also from an old George Carlin joke about the FDA’s list of new foods and/or additives that can harm you:
FLASH! CAIR will now publish a list of those things that do NOT offend Muslims. This week it’s lima beans and mashed potatoes.
fred5678 on December 12, 2007 at 4:34 PM
Islam is considered offensive in many cultures, maybe we should file lawsuits demanding the crescent be taken down from mosques and see how many more “cross” complaints we get.
BTW the crusades were in RESPONSE to Islamic expansion and takeover of much of Europe at the end of a sword. So we have some standing on the same issue.
Neo on December 12, 2007 at 4:45 PM
And what exactly doesn’t offend the Muslims? And why should we care?
Tantor on December 12, 2007 at 4:59 PM
The Muslim won’t be satisfied until we use their symbol, the crescent moon, to commemorate where their co-religionists slaughtered innocent airline passengers on 9/11.
What, we’re doing that!!!?!!!111!!!eleventy!!!!11!!!
tommylotto on December 12, 2007 at 5:11 PM
I think I just found my team!
Tzetzes on December 12, 2007 at 6:52 PM
“reminded”?? What, do these people carry around a list of things which will cause them to be offended? Or are they just offended by us infidels in general. Quite frankly, I’m tired of all their offense. When will the West wake up and start fighting this dangerous BS.?
4shoes on December 12, 2007 at 7:39 PM
AC Milan is “Milan”. Inter Milan is “Inter”.
Seriously. Huge difference.
someone on December 12, 2007 at 7:44 PM
(it’s like confusing the Mets and Yankees)
someone on December 12, 2007 at 7:44 PM
Bryan, you have to understand that Muslims view the Crusader invasion & occupation of the Holy Land as a very barbarous episode in their history.
Of course, it doesn’t matter that the Muslims were in the Holy Land because of their own invasion & occupation.
The usual double standards….justified simply because the Muslims are doing it for Allah.
uptight on December 13, 2007 at 2:31 AM
Bryan said:
I’ an Arsenal fan too…although last night was pretty testing.
Anyway – I first saw the Inter jersey during the pre-season friendly at the Emirates Stadium.
Here’s a few pics I took.
uptight on December 13, 2007 at 2:47 AM