Scottish Mag 3 Posted December 12, 2007 Share Posted December 12, 2007 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.” Mr Kaska told the Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia that the cross symbolised “Western racist superiority over Islam”. He said that Inter had “manifested in the most explicit manner the superiority of one religion over another”. He said the court had contacted both Uefa and Fifa to convey his demand that Inter should be “heavily fined for displaying an offensive symbol”. “How could Uefa allow this?“demanded the Turkish paper Radikal. Inter Milan officials said that they were “astounded”. They said that in the first match between the two teams in September at Istanbul - which Fenerbahce won 1-0 - Inter had deliberately refrained from wearing the strip with the red cross but had felt entitled to use it on its home ground. Inter officials also pointed out that a red cross on a white background is the symbol of the city of Milan. Many Italian football clubs incorporated the cross on their shirts, including Inter, founded in Milan in 1908. “The red cross has become an international political football,” Corriere della Sera commented. Uefa's mission is to “promote the principles of unity and solidarity” in Europe through football, “without discrimination on grounds of gender, religion or race.” However, Inter officials said Uefa had approved the new Inter strip at the start of the season, and the Turkish club had also accepted it before last month’s game. La Repubblica said it was unclear whether Mr Kaska was “more wounded by the supposed offence or by the goals Inter scored”. Fenerbahce, one of Turkey’s top teams and the main rival in Istanbul of Galatasaray, was also founded 100 years ago. Its players wear a yellow-blue strip and are known as "The Yellow Canaries”. The row comes at a sensitive moment in Turkey's ambitions to join the European Union. This week France won a symbolic victory at a meeting of EU Foreign Ministers when it prevented the EU using the word “accession” or “membership” in connection with Turkey, which is a secular state but has a majority Muslim population and a government led by Islamist politicians. Ankara opened negotiations for EU membership two years ago, but Nicolas Sarkozy, the French President, has repeatedly said that Turkey has no place in Europe and should be offered instead a “privileged partnership”. David Miliband, the Foreign Secretary, said: “We think it’s important that the European Union fulfil its responsibilities towards Turkey, but also that Turkey continues the reform process that is an important part of its passage to the European Union." The EU statement welcomed the strengthening of democracy in Turkey but said “significant further efforts are needed in other areas such as judicial reform, the fight against corruption, minority rights and strengthening of cultural rights, women’s rights, children’s rights, trade union rights and civilian control of the military”. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex Posted December 12, 2007 Share Posted December 12, 2007 Christ almighty. Pun intended. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peasepud 59 Posted December 12, 2007 Share Posted December 12, 2007 allah wept Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fish 11079 Posted December 12, 2007 Share Posted December 12, 2007 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ewerk 31592 Posted December 12, 2007 Share Posted December 12, 2007 Any wonder some people hate muslims when they have pricks like this showing them up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gloom 22526 Posted December 12, 2007 Share Posted December 12, 2007 you couldn't make it up. it's pc gone mad etc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trophyshy 7095 Posted December 12, 2007 Share Posted December 12, 2007 "Aren't Italians descended from n1gg3rs?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom 14021 Posted December 12, 2007 Share Posted December 12, 2007 Allah and them other buggers, Mohhamed etc etc..did something like i dunno weep, is that pc? Weeping? BTW the way is this just not propagana from the man so we all hate muslims and fear terrorists? [knock on door/] [sack on head/] [special prison for T/] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JawD 99 Posted December 12, 2007 Share Posted December 12, 2007 QFT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom 14021 Posted December 12, 2007 Share Posted December 12, 2007 Im tempted to buy that kit now like. Muhammed 9 on the back Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bawan 0 Posted December 12, 2007 Share Posted December 12, 2007 Some stupid muslims around these days, just glad I am not one of them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Besty 4 Posted December 12, 2007 Share Posted December 12, 2007 Some stupid muslims around these days, just glad I am not one of them You reckon? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bawan 0 Posted December 12, 2007 Share Posted December 12, 2007 Some stupid muslims around these days, just glad I am not one of them You reckon? Had to be you didn't it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom 14021 Posted December 12, 2007 Share Posted December 12, 2007 Just ''sold out'' at kitbag.com come like Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ewerk 31592 Posted December 12, 2007 Share Posted December 12, 2007 Just ''sold out'' at kitbag.com come like Leazes is buying them by the crateload now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manc-mag 1 Posted December 12, 2007 Share Posted December 12, 2007 What a shit kit btw. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckyluke 2 Posted December 12, 2007 Share Posted December 12, 2007 What a shit kit btw. Wasn't there an England kit from a few years back that had a red cross on it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom 14021 Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 What a shit kit btw. Wasn't there an England kit from a few years back that had a red cross on it? No. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fish 11079 Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 That one? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom 14021 Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 More of an X than a Cross Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 What a shit kit btw. Wasn't there an England kit from a few years back that had a red cross on it? I think I've seen a flag like that somewhere anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tooj 17 Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 What a shit kit btw. Wasn't there an England kit from a few years back that had a red cross on it? I think I've seen a flag like that somewhere anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RlCO 0 Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 That one? I thought that was a promo for the X-Box... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Carr's Gloves 4081 Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 It's a crying shame. If I were a muslim and saw this and the Sudanese thing I would be going mental. Do these people not think that Muslims in Europe find it hard enough to integrate without these cocks stirring up hatred. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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