A Turkish lawyer is taking legal action against Inter Milan, the Italian football team, for wearing a strip with “Crusader-style” red crosses that he alleges is ”offensive to Muslim sensibilities”.
Baris Kaska, a lawyer in Izmir who specialises in European law, said that he had lodged a complaint in a local court against Inter Milan, which last month played the Istanbul team Fenerbahce in a Champions League match at the San Siro stadium in Milan. The Inter players wore a new strip – a white shirt with a giant red cross on it – marking the club’s centenary.
Mr Kaska said he was not only seeking damages but was also appealing to Uefa to annul the match, which Inter won 3-0. “That cross only brings one thing to mind – the symbol of the Templar Knights,” he said. “It made me think immediately of the bloody days of the past. While I was watching the game I felt profound grief in my soul.”
Fenerbahce sucked big time. I don’t think lawsuits will change that.
Thanks, Fiver.
St George is the patron saint of Milan, awarded in 930 A.D. before the crusades. He is also revered in Islam under the name of Gherghis or El Khoudi.
#20 – Jetfire – If we were all Colored blind we wouldn’t have gang color problems.
And if we were all gay, there would be no problems on this planet.
#7
“Just so you know…the original swastika has been used by ancient civilizations on every continent and probably originated in India written in Sanskrit.”
Tell that to the Jews crusading to make sure everyone thinks is a Nazi only item.
#10
The sole reason the Cruzades were created were because the Rich European nobles were running out of money and decided to invent a holy war to distract the populace *coughjustlikebushjr*
#22
And women who play hard to get would never get laid.
The solution: tell them to fuck off, deal with it, and that we’re offended by how backwards and hateful their cultures are.
#3 At least agnostic.
Fanatics(fan- addicts) are a problem. Let’s lock em all in room with eachother strap em down to chairs, hook em up to electrodes that shock when a voices are raised and have em all look at each other while they eat, poop, pee, and sleep. That way they’d know that everybody needs to do those things, and that everyones poop stinks.
Ooo- that’s a bit fascistic, apologies.
They won the game. So God was on their side.
[Did you mean Allah? = ed.]
#10, Scott,
Not quite. The English Flag uses the Cross of St. George. The Union Jack is a combination of the Crosses of St. George, St. Andrew from Scotland, and St. Patrick from Ireland.
“If we were all Colored blind we wouldn’t have gang color problems”
No, the damn 43% grey people would still be trouble.
A dirty, hypocritical “offended” Muslim… bad enough from the git-go…
A slimy lawyer, as well… how much worse do you need?
But this “I felt profound grief in my soul.” shit is more than anyone should have to put up with. Could somebody please shove that scumbag out in front of a bus – please?
What exactly doesn’t offend someone? Plain yogurt?
#23 – Angel
Only catch is that with everyone being gay, there wouldn’t be much breeding done to get the next crop of gays, would there…
#26 – chuck – They won the game. So God was on their side.
The question is which one…
#28 – JimR – No, the damn 43% grey people would still be trouble.
Damn, there are really that many Government employees?!
Plain yogurt offends me… tastes like chicken.
I dunno… that is awfully close to the historic Crusader garb, and Muslims view “crusade” much as we Westerners view “jihad” i.e. not nice. I may be one of those pesky atheists, but even I think they may have a point in this specific case, though free speech has priority.
Crusades are Christian Jihad. Jihad is Muslim crusades.
Best I can tell, the two are more-or-less the same thing.
Both are seen as sometimes good, by those within the religion, but universally condemned by the other religion.
As a liberal Christian, I really have no use for crusade language.
Ever notice how all the Muslim countries have flags with swords on them?
But that’s not offensive…
#35 – Milo
Ever noticed how Christians made a tool of torture their symbol? If Jesus were alive today and got electrocuted… would his followers make the electric chair their symbol and wear it as jewelry?
And nope, I’m not the first one to say this…
#33: I’m an Atheist too, but I also think that you can’t use things like this as an excuse. This is a tentative “offense” at best that would never had been brought up had the lawyer’s team not lost.
And part of the problem in the middle east is that everyones grudges go back way too far. They’re still fighting over who Mohammed’s fucking successor should be, 1500 years after the fact. There is something inherently wrong with the cultures there that goes deeper than offense over a european soccer uniform, a bunch of cartoons, or what a teacher lets their student name a teddy bear.
And middle eastern terrorism (not to be confused with european, which was primarily communist “revolutionaries”) in itself is the result of not keeping up with western technology and trends, instead the upper class simply hoards 99.99999% of the wealth in the region. Which keeps the people in the 19th century or earlier and, while keeping armed revolt from occurring, also prevents real advances in their ability to fight. This asymmetrical effect then further caused demoralization, leading to armed assaults on public places.
The problem was, that didn’t work in Israel, as everyone there has some kind of weapon. Which is what led to suicide bombing as the primary technique.
The key would be to actually fix how things work there. The problem is that the clergy and the rich would realize that they couldn’t hold the money and power they’d hoarded to the point it was simply How Things Work. Which brings it right back to the problem.
13. Steve S
Why would you write something so ignorant? Aside from unnecessarily inflaming a people you know nothing about, you obviously have no idea that new internet OS fingerprinting services can now personally track you down.
http://tinyurl.com/28jowo
36. Jägermeister. 15 years ago I asked my cousin the pastor that exact question. Yes, Christians would be wearing an electric chair.
RBG
36, Jägermeister:
Yes, so?
#33—How whiny. Muslims love nothing better than to be insulted and offended in the West. Individuals *choose* to be insulted and take advantage of it, filing lawsuits and crying to the media.
I’m reminded of a few years ago when an organization of muslim scholars and clergy demanded an apology for the Crusades, etc…to which I thought, “When you apologize for making war on Spain, on France, storming the gates of Vienna…” For Heaven’s sake this cuts both ways. Act like adults, recognize that history is history. If Western countries chose to be as tearful about things that happened here there wouldn’t be a Middle East, just a few glorified oil pumps. And goats.