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From Haaretz: "Ghana Football Association apologizes for Israeli flag at World Cup match"
Ghana's Football Association apologized Monday after Hapoel Tel Aviv defender John Paintsil pulled out an Israeli flag during celebrations over Saturday's 2-0 victory over the Czech Republic.
"It was an action out of naivete, and we apologize to anyone who was offended. It will never happen again," Ghana FA spokesman Randy Abbey said.
"He was obviously unaware of the implications of what he did ... He's extremely popular in Israel, and he wanted to thank the fans who traveled to see him play."
Horrors!
Abbey said that there had been complaints to the Ghana FA but did not elaborate.
"We're not here for politics," he said. "We don't support Israel or Arab nations ... It was unfortunate that the player was ignorant about the political situation."
Abbey added: "But he has apologized to us and I think the matter should end there."
Sports Minister Ophir Pines-Paz had been quoted as praising Paintsil for his actions and saying that Ghana had gained many Israeli fans.
"We have an Israeli at the World Cup. Paintsil's gesture has warmed our hearts and many Israelis have now become supporters of Ghana," Paz said.
But the gesture drew furious reactions in the Arab press.
More on those "furious reactions" from AFP: "Fury in Egypt over Ghana's Israeli flag waver"
"The ignorant and stupid Paintsil, who spent 20 days in Egypt during the last African Nations Cup, plays for Hapoel," sports commentator Alaa Sadek wrote in the daily Al-Akhbar, explaining to baffled Egyptian audiences Painstil's link to Israel.
"Egyptians supported the Ghanaian team all the way until the 82nd minute, and regretted it after the Israeli flag (waving)," screamed a bold red headline in the independent daily Al-Masry al-Yom Monday.
And now for the obligatory conspiracy theories:
... Some papers described Paintsil as a "Mossad agent", others said "an Israeli had paid him to do it" but the most elaborate theory was offered by the top-selling state-owned daily Al-Ahram.
"The real reason," sports analyst Hassan el-Mestekawi wrote, stems from the fact that many Ghanaian players go through football training camps set up by an Israeli coach who "discovered the treasure of African talent, and abused the poverty of the continent's children" with the ultimate goal of selling them off to European clubs.
"The training program for these children starts every morning with a salute to the Israeli flag," Mestekawi claimed.
Posted by Marisol at June 19, 2006 6:19 PM
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"The training program for these children starts every morning with a salute to the Israeli flag"
I can't believe this! Can't an african player thank the nation he plays in? Can't he share his apreciation for the Jewish nation without Muslims getting all hyper? Goodness!
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at June 19, 2006 6:31 PM
It is important to differentiate between the Zionist exploitation of "the treasure of African talent and ... the poverty of the continent's children" and the recently outlawed but still practiced tradition of UAE, Qatar, Abu Dhabi, Saudi Arabia to kidnap children from non-Muslim (and sometimes Muslim too) regions to serve as "camel jockeys":
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-1543325,00.html
"Kidnapped children starve as camel jockey slaves"
Only the poisonous minds of gutter Arabs who actually DO all the heinous things they slime the rest of the world with could come up with this brand of pathological mental sewage ...
Islam = Poisonous Contagious Disease.
Arab "culture" = Toxic Pollution.
at June 19, 2006 6:34 PM
These Muslim hysterics and conspiracy theories are starting to be funny. I think laughter, mocking and shaming is the best policy when this type of thing comes up. Muslims have to be straightened out; let them know that infidels regard them as dupes. If they protest, just let them know that whatever they say, their chance for being respected as Muslims is gone forever. Shame them out of Islam.
Posted by: Quijybo at June 19, 2006 6:49 PM
Speaking of World Cup conspiracy theories, the Iranians are claiming that they are going home thanks to Portugal's 2-0 win because "they were ordered to by the mullahs". They will always have to find a reason other than someone else beating them fair and square...
On a sidenote, I wonder what would have happened if they had noticed the cross in the Portuguese shirts...
Lastly, here is Sandmonkey's take on the greatest loss from Iran's elimination
http://www.sandmonkey.org/2006/06/19/why-i-will-miss-iran-in-the-worldcup/
and notice the bottle of Corona...
Posted by: cruzado at June 19, 2006 7:04 PM
Cruzado,
Egad! Women's exposed armpits, midrifts, corona, conversation, fun-the mad mullahs will no doubt claim these were Zionist plants to distract the team.
at June 19, 2006 8:00 PM
Cruzado,
Thanks for the Sandmonkey link to the Iranian soccer babes. Real nice to look at!
Did you notice that they are all waving the old royalist flag of the Shah, not the Islamic flag of the mullahs. These beautiful women are a picture of what Iran could look like if it were free.
Posted by: Provoslavni at June 19, 2006 9:34 PM
Anything that sends a Muslim into impotent rage is fine by me.
at June 19, 2006 9:43 PM
Does this mean I ain't gonna have to look at any more Mexican flags in the back windows of pickup trucks being driven by illegal aliens from that star-crossed country?
Posted by: Alarmed Pig Farmer at June 19, 2006 10:07 PM
"Did you notice that they are all waving the old royalist flag of the Shah, not the Islamic flag of the mullahs. These beautiful women are a picture of what Iran could look like if it were free."
Yes I did. Big Pharaoh also posted about the same thing.
And you are right, some of those young women are beautiful, but most important is that they all look HAPPY and FREE. It kind of reminded me of the Lebanese babes from the Ceddar revolution
http://www.willisms.com/archives/2005/03/more_on_the_bab_1.html
^^^ Interesting article, btw
http://www.willisms.com/archives/2005/02/unprecedented_e.html
http://www.willisms.com/archives/2005/03/more_on_walid_j.html
http://www.willisms.com/archives/2005/03/gargantuan_anti.html
http://www.willisms.com/archives/2005/03/bloggings_aweso_1.html
http://www.willisms.com/archives/2005/03/more_images_fro.html
^^^^ Pics of free Middle Eastern (Lebanese) women in rallies.
Posted by: cruzado at June 19, 2006 10:14 PM
I was already sick of these perpetually "Outraged Arabs," but now I think I'm going to go throw up.
PLEASE. Isn't the World Cup all about bringing glory to your respective country through performance on the pitch? Just not the Zionists, right? Because their pride really is in their imperialism, and their flag is a symbol of the oppression Palestinians must live with everyday.
Pretty pathetic that most people fail to connect the dots and see that all Arab countries happen to hate Israel for the same reason: Quran/Muhammed/Islam.
at June 19, 2006 10:50 PM
This is why I want to see the Israelis win the World Cup, eventually. Just to piss them off
Posted by: skald at June 19, 2006 10:58 PM
I heard the entire Czech team, in sympathy with the Danes, is ready to whip out the Mohammad cartoons from their socks after every goal.
The Muslims dare not boycott those who invented Semtex.
Posted by: profitsbeard at June 19, 2006 11:26 PM
Israel and Ghana were last linked in such a fashion during the Biafran War of 1967-1969, when they were the only two countries to recognize the independent state of Biafra -- everyone else in the non-Muslim world was ready to abandon the Nigerian Christians (mostly but not exclusively Ibo) to permanent Muslim domination. Thanks in part to Egyptian pilots who strafed Christian villages and killed tens of thousands of helpless villagers, and to other Arab Muslim support, the Jihad (as Col. Ojukwu called it) to suppress the Christians was successful. A pity.
Posted by: Hugh at June 19, 2006 11:44 PM
I can't find any on line link to this but in her autobiography My Life, Golda Meir describes the 5 week visit she made to Ghana and other west African countries in 1958. There was a lot of exchange, agriculture, education, training between the two countries in the 50s and 60s. You can imagine how other outside influences worked later to diminish the friendship.
Posted by: Granny Weatherwax at June 20, 2006 2:51 AM
I am speechless! Haven't had my breakfast yet, but I feel like throwing up!
Garnny, it is worth rememebering that it was Ghana and Israel as the very few nations which recognised Biafra.
Long live Ghana, long live Israel!
at June 20, 2006 3:34 AM
When I was young, I used to read several articles of MSM outlining the grief of the palis, and the 'atrocities' of Israel. What surprised me was so many arab countries were also hostile to Israel. I did not understand persian and urdu then, and thought yasser arafat must be some tribal. Fortunately, I stumbled on 'Exodus' by Leon Uris in my library. That opened my eyes up a bit. Then I stumbled on 'By the Rivers Of Babylon', and I understood some more. It still took me some time to realize that muslims have all the territory from mecca to pakistan, and they hate this infidel patch in the middle that they cannot control. The universal hatred of muslims towards anything Israeli is not confined to arab regions. pakistan routinely harps on the 'anguish of palis', and muslims living in Western countries all speak out for these terrorists. One, just one article in the MSM actually describing the situation should see the solution of all muslims' problems throughout the world.
Posted by: arjun.sevak at June 20, 2006 4:49 AM
how about the projection of Arab enslavement of children from non-Muslim lands [sometimes from Muslim lands] onto Israel [in this case]? Always projecting what they do onto others.
Posted by: Eliyahu at June 20, 2006 5:09 AM
Arab Press? LoL! More like a Nazi type proganda apparatus. The "Arab press" is in the Joseph Goebbels league of information desemination. The Egyptian press, aren't these some of the same wonderful people who perpetuate the Jewish, passover, blood libel stuff? The Arab press is the vile, proganda organ of a backwards, knuckle dragging cult.
All I can say is mock and incite this childish crowd to acts of buffoonery, where ever and when ever. Their words are pure gold and an example to decent people every where of the current pathologies of Islam.
Posted by: abdulalshirk at June 20, 2006 5:12 AM
Eliyahu writes:
"how about the projection of Arab enslavement of children from non-Muslim lands [sometimes from Muslim lands] onto Israel [in this case]? Always projecting what they do onto others."
This is an interesting observation that seems difficult to explain. It is not just Moslems who project unto Israel and the Jews what Moslems themselves do. Many other cultures have projected onto Jews what the Moslems do.
In the middle ages, the Jews were feared for poisoning wells, selling people into slavery and for ritual murder. Jews are accused of a conspiracy to take over the world. Have people in the world projected these evils to Jewish Semites when it should have been identified with Moslem ones? Were Europeans afraid of the wrong Semites?
Posted by: David England at June 20, 2006 7:13 AM
Boxter, Israeli flags and Danish cartoons! A perfect Molotov's coctails against Muslims! They will go rioting and kill each other!
Posted by: Polish infideless at June 20, 2006 7:24 AM
In this case Muslims prove to be disgusting in two different ways.
First because of their well known "being offended" of things, normal people do not even notice, such as the Mohammad cartoons for example.
But John Paintsil didn't wave a Mohammad cartoon, did he?
He waved an Israeli flag. And that is the second and even worse thing. They consider the Israeli flag as an offense! An that's why I am not able to mock them in this affair, but why I dispise them and hate them.
Yes, John Paintsil has deserved the Anti-Dhimmi-Award, and I don't think, that a man who lives in Tel Aviv, can be "naive" about the Israeli-Arab conflict. But the Ghana FA has deserved a Dhimmi-Award!
Posted by: Eisvogel at June 20, 2006 8:11 AM
Starting to be funny, Quijybo?
No, it would be funny if they weren't the output of such puss-filled minds who really believe that swill.
I was really sorry that Israel didn't make the WC so we could see a display of Iranian and Saudi sportsmanship.
Despite the bile-and-spleen "reportage" from Alaa Sadek, Israel has produced some pretty good soccer players from among its own*, as I recall, including a couple who play for a British club and were sent off on holidays while the rest of the team went to some gulf state to play some games.
* I'd hazard a guess that there have been more Olympic medals awarded to Jewish athletes from various countries than there have been to Arab Muslims.
Posted by: waterdragon52 at June 20, 2006 8:14 AM
All football players have some sort of method of celebration... this poor guy gets shelled for pulling out the flag of isreal... My question is how come there is not a backlash against the muslim players, even on his own team, getting on their knees, and praying to meca, not that theres anything wrong with that...
Posted by: somejerk at June 20, 2006 12:36 PM
@Patriot5: Yes, it was the only flag flown by a kicker. Normally only the fans fly flags. John Paintsil had it in one of his socks during all the game, and it was not his own country's flag. He really showed a wonderful friendship to Israel. But there were Israeli flags in the public during both games of the Iranian team :)
Posted by: Eisvogel at June 20, 2006 12:45 PM
Any foreward looking predictions on Painstil's life expectancy? Is he afflicted with a terminal disease, or just unafraid of the 6th Pillar of Islam?
Posted by: Alarmed Pig Farmer at June 21, 2006 3:50 AM
Why should flying the flag of a free and democratic nation be deemed offensive? The usual knee jerk reaction from the Arab world is pathetic. Israel forever!!!!
Posted by: Stezzer at June 23, 2006 10:27 AM
"On a sidenote, I wonder what would have happened if they had noticed the cross in the Portuguese shirts..."
They surely haven't noticed the meaning of the logo on the Poles' jerseys:
http://editrixblog.blogspot.com/2006/06/polska-gol.html
Posted by: The Editrix at June 25, 2006 8:20 AM
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