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Real Madrid drops cross from club crest to appease Abu Dhabi bank

Nov 27, 2014 4:56 pm By Robert Spencer

RealMadrid_3119342b“I know that the local people experience every match in a special way and that our links with the UAE are constantly growing stronger. This agreement will help the club to keep conquering the hearts of followers in the United Arab Emirates.” And the accommodation, as always, goes only one way.

“Real Madrid lose Christian cross from club crest to appease Abu Dhabi bank,” the Telegraph, November 26, 2014:

Real Madrid have removed the cross from their club crest as part of a lucrative three-year deal with the National Bank of Abu Dhabi.

It is believed the European champions’ new crest, minus the Christian cross, was created so as not to offend Muslim sensibilities in the United Arab Emirates, where a marketing drive will take place.

Club president Florentino Perez labelled the deal as a “strategic alliance with one of the most prestigious institutions in the world”.

But the redesigning of the famous club badge shows, according to Spanish sports paper Marca, how far top clubs are willing to go, including sacrificing part of their famous identity, to generate new revenue streams.

A new credit card, which doubles as a Real Madrid membership card, was paraded by Perez where the new design is clearly seen.

The importance of the deal was underlined by the wheeling out of a multinational gathering of the club’s stars, including Gareth Bale, Dani Carvajal (Spain), Toni Kroos (Germany) and Karim Benzema (France).

The 10-times European Cup winners, revealed the new design with no fanfare, with images only emerging now, despite the “strategic alliance” being signed off in September.

“I know that the local people experience every match in a special way and that our links with the UAE are constantly growing stronger,” Perez said recently. “This agreement will help the club to keep conquering the hearts of followers in the United Arab Emirates.”…

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  1. Andrew says

    Nov 27, 2014 at 5:08 pm

    A similar action occurred in the past.

    See: http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2007/12/barcelonas-cross-removed-in-saudi.html

  2. Aardvark says

    Nov 27, 2014 at 5:27 pm

    “This agreement will help the club to keep conquering the hearts of followers in the United Arab Emirates.”…

    But lose all its Christian followers!

    • Adrian says

      Nov 28, 2014 at 10:35 am

      And while the club is “conquering the hearts of followers in the UAE” the Moslems are in Spain conquering their territories once again.

  3. Salah says

    Nov 27, 2014 at 5:30 pm

    Our PC elites are selling our country, our culture and our identity for a few petro-dollars. This is understandable because they are traitors.
    What I do not understand is our inaction (i.e. complicity.) We need to boycot every single one of them, especially the MSM. If they lose our support and our hard-earned dollars they will be forced to re-examine their shameful behaviours.
    Our inaction will eventually lead to our extinction as a free people. We are voluntarily enslaving ourselves. We’re no different than these Muslim women “proud” of their burqas.

  4. Zebo says

    Nov 27, 2014 at 5:50 pm

    Can you imagine what would happen if this someone tried the opposite way.
    Removing muslim signs from an arabic club -crest?
    Even asking for permission to do so would cause world wide protests,muslims would kill 3x more christians and burn 5x more churches than they regularly do for the next 6 month.
    The islamic world would shout”the crest crusade!they have crucified us!muslim suffering will never end”

    Of course we will never see that happen because muslims never ever produced something of value
    that maybe use for merchandising.

    But the most “funny “thing.
    If you take a look how small the symbol on the credit card is.
    Even if your eyes are perfect you won’t see the cross on your credit card.
    This only shows how full of sh!t and intolerance muslims really are.
    (btw-islam stole all their reasonable stuff from christians to create the abomination they call religion,but they can’t tolerate a small cross?!)

    But i don’t mind.At the bottom of my toilet bowl there is a picture of mohammed and i use toilet paper with sura-verses.

  5. jewdog says

    Nov 27, 2014 at 6:08 pm

    Okay, but now Real Madrid needs to replace the cross with a symbol that truly represents its values: $.

  6. Sam says

    Nov 27, 2014 at 6:08 pm

    The west is really losing it. Will not get it back in my life time.

  7. josepxicot says

    Nov 28, 2014 at 4:11 am

    To live for to know,this football club and followersmsaid that the Barça was selling itself to an arab coun
    try with rude islamic goverment,well live and will see,as the russian say.

  8. tesa says

    Nov 28, 2014 at 5:14 am

    money can,t buy you love and hopefully your fans will show you thats true.

    • MARIA H. DEFRAGA says

      Nov 28, 2014 at 7:15 am

      Real Madrid just sold their soul to the DEVIL THEIR GOD IS MONEY HOW CAN THEY BE SO STUPID TO DO SOMETHING LIKE THIS

  9. dehne says

    Nov 28, 2014 at 5:31 am

    Drop the cross then you lose a special protection. The loss of protection takes the form of expelling eternal values for short term gain. Why gain the world to lose your soul? Simple solution. Repent and reinstate your eternal value.

  10. Ihor Staruch says

    Nov 28, 2014 at 6:23 am

    Soon, the following will be forbidden all “across” the world:

    “cross”-country hiking
    school “crossing” guards​
    railway and pedestrian “crossings”
    “crossing” the street
    “doublecrossing”

    Croissants will be OK, because they are in the shape of the quarter-moon, but the name will have to change.

  11. Blurb1000 says

    Nov 28, 2014 at 8:50 am

    Maybe they are better of with Islam than with the the Spanish Inquisitation…
    Anyway, good luck.

    • Uncle Vladdi says

      Nov 28, 2014 at 8:48 pm

      Except that the Spanish Inquisition was specifically created to find and expel the muslims who had stayed hidden in Spain while pretending to be Christians. And Spain had been violently invaded, conquered, enslaved and raped by islam for nearly 1,000 years before that.

  12. Betty says

    Nov 28, 2014 at 10:42 am

    why? does every thing have to be changed for the muslims. why cant they change for some one else? quit bowing to these leaches. you are killing your selves for nothing. they will still behead you just like they did Rigby.

  13. Betty says

    Nov 28, 2014 at 10:45 am

    may you loose every game now you lost the CROSS.

  14. ConnectingDots says

    Nov 28, 2014 at 12:53 pm

    This is yet another example of spineless soccer-team owners.

    1836 was the original, poll-selected name of the Houston Dynamo soccer team, in honor of the founding year of the city, until the spineless owners bowed to Hispanics who could not handle that this was also the year of Texas independence from Mexico.

    http://www.chron.com/sports/dynamo/article/Goodbye-1836-hello-Houston-Dynamo-1634753.php

  15. Vladdi says

    Nov 28, 2014 at 8:41 pm

    Real Muslid.

  16. satch1 says

    Nov 29, 2014 at 7:37 am

    Isn’t it ironic that Satan can put the fear of hells Fire in everyone that is reminded of the cross of Jesus Christ, the Only name given in heaven or earth whereby you must depend for your salvation? He will return soon and the wrath will fall on all who curse Gods people the Jew. Even they aren’t acknowledging their true messiah, As yet!

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