Well Baris Kaska is offended by Inter Milan shirts is he? He claims that it offended "Muslim sensibilities". The "offending"strip – a white shirt with large red cross on it – worn in a Champions League match last month against Turkish team Fenerbahçe was to celebrate the club’s centenary.
But Baris has got his moslem panties in bunch and has taken exception to the "Crusader-style" cross. He used the phrase "Western racist superiority over Islam". - Maybe someone should explain to Mr Baris that Christianity is not a race, Islam is not a race. They are in fact religions worshipped by people of many races, and not a racial grouping.
He claimed the offending shirt reminded Turks of an emblem of the Christian order of the Knights Templar. That would be the same Knights Templar that have been disbanded for centuries, the same Knights Templar that were disbanded by Christians.
But his blubbering did not stop there, oh no he decided to have a good cry to the Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia, he sobbed "That cross only brings one thing to mind - the symbol of the Templar Knights.
"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." - So what part of the "clash of civilizations" offended him, the fact that Islam had assaulted Christian nations for 400 years before the first Crusade?
The fact that Spain had been conquered, that France had nearly fallen and were it not for Charles Martel would have become a moslem nation. Maybe that by the time of the first crusade one third of the Christian world was either attacked or under moslem control. Was that the bloodshed, the bloodshed of non moslems the bloody days he was thinking of?
I think not.
But is this a ploy by the infidels to make moslems question the Koran and convert to Christianity, is it a racist plot by evil Christians to abuse the pagan moslems? Or has Baris Kaska got a deeper motive.
What deeper motive?
Well here is a clue: He is seeking damages, and is appealing to Uefa to annul the match, which Inter Milan won 3-0.
There you go, as a footie fan and someone who's team lost, he his throwing his moslem toys out of the pram. Don't like the result, play the "race" card, even if its not a race issue.
He said the court had contacted both Uefa and Fifa to convey his demand that Inter Milan should be "heavily fined for displaying an offensive symbol".
Inter Milan officials are reportedly "astounded" at the controversy.
They have pointed out that a red cross on a white background was the symbol of the city of Milan, and that many Italian football clubs have incorporated the cross on their shirts.Just for Baris Kaska, here is the symbol of the Templar Knights.
And the Inter Milan strip.
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2 people have spoken:
I am a Turk from Izmir, from the city this ignorant and confused lunatic is from. Until he pointed out there was a cross on the Milan kit, I hadn't even noticed. And then, so what? Should England and Sweden change their national flags too? Should Israel not wear its country flag on its kit? This person should shut up and keep his confused beliefs to himself. The Turkish public should condemn this guy on a national level for making such an ass out of our country. I'm sure the Milanese had not thought their kit would cause such a reaction. Turkish soccer team itself wears the star and the crescent, whom many in Europe could identify with religion. Baris Kaska, shut up, go live in the medieval times you belong in, and don't embarrass modern Turkey anymore.
Well said, I think that he protests to much. Just upset that his local team lost.
He might have a point - not much of one, but a point none the less - had he put in his protest without asking for the result to be overturned!
Good point about the crescent, I am sure that some lawyer is no doubt thinking of a counter lawsuit. :-)
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