Turks File Complaint - Deem Milan Soccer Jerseys “Offensive To Islam”
I am getting so sick and tired of this “Offense to Islam” shit. I’ve got two words for those people, and they aren’t “Merry Christmas.”
Milan, 11 Dec.- A Turkish lawyer has filed a complaint to UEFA, the European football federation, after Italian club Inter Milan wore a football jersey with a symbol said to be offensive to Islam, during a game with the Turkish team Fenerbahçe.
The symbol of the northern Italian city of Milan, a red cross on a white background, was on the Inter Milan shirts during the Champions League game in November which saw Fenerbahçe lose by 3 goals to zero at Milan’s San Siro stadium.
Lawyer Baris Kaska, has asked a Turkish tribunal to sanction Inter Milan for wearing the shirts which he says reminded Turks of an emblem of the Christian order of the Knights Templar.
The symbol is tied closely to the Crusades in the Middle Ages, when the Christian powers of Europe tried to recapture the Holy Land from the Muslims, with constant and ferocious military expeditions.
Kaska said that the symbol is considered offensive in Islamic culture and asked the Turkish tribunal to sanction Inter Milan for their ‘racist’ action.
He has asked UEFA, which organises the Champions League tournament, to cancel the three points earned by Inter Milan after its victory over Fenerbahçe.
In an interview with Spain’s daily La Vanguardia, Kaska said that “the cross reminded me of the bloody days of the past.”
Inter Milan consciously decided not to wear the controversial shirt during their match in Istanbul, but did not think it was necessary to do the same while playing the return game in Milan.
(AKI)
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Looks like we should do away with the Red Cross to. They could be to “Offensive” to Muslims.
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December 11th, 2007 at 11:33 amI wonder if there’s a counter suit they could file that islamic symbols are offensive to europeans…
or can only muslims be offended in life…
December 11th, 2007 at 11:33 amPresumably if Turkey gets to join the EU, England will have to redesign Saint George’s Cross too?!
December 11th, 2007 at 12:12 pmThis is the beginning of the end of the West, people. There are no leaders ANYWHERE who have the balls to stand up to this crap. Those who have no weapons better get ‘em because our grandchildren are going to need to know how to fight. We need 8 more years of Republican foreign policy to deal with these goat herding slimeballs. Who’s with me?
December 11th, 2007 at 12:44 pmYou know im with ya Jarhead. I agree completely! we need at least 8 more of Republican foreign policy to even have a chance against this threat. The sad thing is that military force alone will only get us so far. For example, all the “moderate” muslims are the ones who dont have the balls to pick up a rifle and they take part of us away without ever firing a shot. Lawsuits and so forth, how do we stop that?
December 11th, 2007 at 1:04 pmWhoopdie-do, and I’ve been “offended” by the crescent moon, and well as the hammer and sickle, for years!
December 11th, 2007 at 1:12 pmJohn Hayward, St. George’s Cross has already been banned. Prison guards in England’s prisons used to wear a St. George pin on their jacket. They were told to remove it for PC reasons. This happened a couple of years ago.
Going on about the Crusades, something no one alive today experienced is like going on about slavery. No one alive today has ever been or owned a slave.
Yet, both groups go on about shit neither was alive to experience.
December 11th, 2007 at 1:36 pmJohn Cunningham: Slavery still exists,in Northern Africa(Sudan)primarily,but in other Muslim dominated areas also, as it is sanctioned in the Qur’an.
December 11th, 2007 at 2:11 pmCartoons, crosses, teddy bears, pigs, fresh air, women, Israel, Jews, soap/water, lack of foot baths, Sunnis, shias, kurds, infidels, crusades, gitmo, profiling, booosh,—- hell, what doesn’t piss these Neanderthals off?
December 11th, 2007 at 2:49 pmwell, maybe the demmeroids they like.
Fuck you, fuck you and oh yeah, fuck you very much too. I’m soooo sick of these camel-raping fucks. EVERYTHING about them offends me. Fights on, fights on… 
December 11th, 2007 at 4:11 pmIslam is offensive to me, so go fuck yourself Haji.
December 11th, 2007 at 5:56 pm“Islam is offensive to me, so go fuck yourself Haji.”
December 11th, 2007 at 6:36 pmOnce again I must reiterate: the crusades are proven by history to have been called as a defensive effort against 400 years of muslim agrression and invasion. The point of the complaint is to paint the crusades as attacks on innocence when history proves that it was in defence of innocence.
Islam is not only historically violent it has a greater history of instigation than any other religion. Deny it they will, but history refutes their propaganda.
Losers!
December 11th, 2007 at 7:12 pmAnd “honor killings”, terrorism, stonings, subjugation of women, etc. *don’t* offend you…
I’ll be cleaning my rifle.
December 12th, 2007 at 7:51 am