“We have to be careful with regions of the Gulf where there is sensitivity about products that have a cross.”
Of course. But where do Muslims ever display a similar sensitivity to non-Muslims? The old adage always holds: when in Muslim countries, conform your behavior to suit Muslim sensibilities. When in non-Muslim countries, conform your behavior to suit Muslim sensibilities.
Real Madrid initially did this in 2012. This is just follow-through.
“Real Madrid remove cross from logo for Middle East fans,” as.com, January 24, 2017:
Real Madrid will alter the crown on top of their badge to eliminate the traditional christian cross on team apparel that sells in various countries in the Middle East.
Marka, a distribution group from the United Arab Emirates have obtained the exclusive rights to “manufacture, distribute and sell Real Madrid products” in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain and Oman, the company said in a press release on Tuesday.
Cultural sensitivitiesThe vide-president [sic] of Marka, Khaled al-Mheiri, told reuters that the badge was being altered because of cultural sensitivities. “We have to be careful with regions of the Gulf where there is sensitivity about products that have a cross,” said al-Mheiri, owner of a Real Madrid cafe in Dubai.
It is not the first time the symbol has been altered. In 2014, Real Madrid eliminated the Christian cross in its logo when it was used by its sponsor the National Bank of Abu Dhabi.

somehistory says
5 years and no lesson learned. The epidemic is growing to pandemic proportions in the worship and bowing to the wild beast of islam.
Leon says
Fuck you Real Madrid! Now I am fan of Barca!
gravenimage says
Alas, Leon, same problem there:
“Barcelona changes Badge to avoid offending muslims”
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1941307/posts
Eur says
Fc Barcelona also does it. He has removed the cross of san jordi on the shirts he sells in the so-called Muslim countries.
In Spain are sold without restriction shirts of the selection of Algeria … .which bring the half moon. The Muslims are crazy and we folly to their follies.
Voytek Gagalka says
Dhimmis cowards.
David E Munson says
Capitulation to the beast of Islam. Europe is gone. Look at Paris.
Christianblood says
Every single country in the West is removing crosses from the public square in order not to ‘offend ‘muslims’. In their naive and stupid and childish minds they think muslims will love them more if they remove any visible cross from the public square. They have NO clue that this will only further embolden islamic supremacists and will make them demand more and more and more and eventually will trigger them to commit mass jihad murder and rape against the weak and emasculated locals. What the hell is wrong with these people?
gravenimage says
San Francisco has a giant cross on its highest hill dedicated to the memory of the victims of the Armenian Genocide, which can be seen from almost every part of the city. Turkish demands that the cross be taken down were rebuffed.
https://cdn0.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/3KqWjLfQgqxuYwviTfz8jvPPfiU=/800×0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn0.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/5306083/mt_20davidson_20cross_20at_20night.0.jpg
Christianblood says
gravenimage
Thanks for sharing the interesting story about the San Fransisco Cross.
Historian says
The land that that cross is on is no longer city owned property. The land and the cross is now in private hands, so the city would have a hard legal time forcing private owners to remove it.
Christianblood says
Historian
That is why San Fransisco city did not remove the Cross. Now, I understand. Thanks. No doubt, they will try to buy that private land one day and then remove the Cross. I am sure that is their dream!
Angemon says
Sweet, sweet petro-dollars…
Terry Karcich says
Why not just convert to Islam? Nothing short of that will satisfy Islam.
Christianblood says
Terry Karcich posted
(..Why not just convert to Islam? Nothing short of that will satisfy Islam..)
Well-said! The only thing that can satisfy muslims if the Westerners convert to islam enmass nothing less than that can satisfy them but the kiddies don’t understand this!
Dexter L. Wilson says
One of the countries who suffered the most from Muslim expansionism and conquering that country and they had to force them out, worried about offending a people who would gladly do what they did in the middle ages again? You can clearly see how “those who forget their past are doomed to repeat it.
gravenimage says
Grimly true, Dexter.
Terry Karcich says
I am offended by the sight of Christians being crucified and beheaded. Will the jihadists stop that in consideration for my feelings? Sure they will.
Jack HOLAN says
Robert, the next logical step in this process is for the team to convert to Islam !
concerned canadian says
even in my beloved Liverpool they built prayer rooms for the trouble making muzzies
gravenimage says
Yuk–this does not surprise, though.
Dacritic says
As Robert likes to FACTUALLY point out, Britain is gone.
c matt says
How long before England redoes its flag to remove the red cross? That would leave it a blank white flag – the flag of surrender/submission/Islam. Fear it is not far off.
marina says
I am offended by women wearing bags on their heads and covered from head to toe in black tents. I am also offended by bearded men in long muslim robes in my grocery store.
What Spain needs now is a Queen Isabella
Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says
But wait. The cross is an instrument of Islamic discipline against mischief-makers; see Quran 5:33. This anti-cross agitation is Islamophobic.
http://corpus.quran.com/translation.jsp?chapter=5&verse=33 :
The recompense of those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger and do mischief in the land is only that they shall be killed or *crucified* or their hands and their feet be cut off on the opposite sides, or be exiled from the land. That is their disgrace in this world, and a great torment is theirs in the Hereafter.
JeffS says
Next, they’ll put a crescent and star on the crown.
Michael Johnson says
There is Noway I would ever do something like that ever if was a Spanish person Spain should take pride in the fact they have a Christian symbol
Infidel in TX says
Spineless!
All to be able to sell merchandise to those animals?
pennant8 says
During the Gulf war when we had troops on the ground in Saudi Arabia Christian chaplains were not permitted to wear the cross insignia on their uniforms. Most likely there were no Jewish chaplains deployed on this mission.
bernie says
At that time, President H W Bush didn’t even say a Thanksgiving Day prayer in Saudi waters. The President and the USA troops waited until they were in international waters.
moeped says
Evil is taking hold all across the world. It’s not the first time. Do you remember what the response was during similar attempted expansions in the past? I don’t think the world wants that again. Want and need are different things altogether though, aren’t they?
SoCalMike says
I loathe Europeans and Europeanized Americans.
They deserve to be reconquered.
gravenimage says
Real Madrid soccer team removes cross from logo to avoid offending Muslims
…………………
And the dhimmitude proceeds apace…
billybob says
Folks – this isn’t about “not offending Muslims”. This is about money, specifically, to sell their merchandise to a broader market. I don’t have a problem with that. If the Muslims can fain friendship or employ taqqiya to advance their cause, then let Real Madrid at least make a buck off of them and drain a tiny fraction of that oil wealth. They can show they are not offending to sell their products but curse them in their hearts.
Abernie says
As well, let’s try to get off of Middle East oil dependence as much as possible, and off oil dependence in general as much as we are able to do so.
c matt says
The problem is our “oil dependence” has nothing to do with meeting our energy needs (we could do that with fracking and shale production easily, nuclear, and other sources). It has to do with the petro-dollar – that is, mid-east countries agree to accept US Dollars only for their oil, we provide security for certain cooperative regimes. Without ME oil demand propping up our dollar, it would drop faster than a Mexican peso glued to a brick, thus making it almost impossible to “quantitatively ease” our way to cover our deficit spending.
bernie says
At that time, President H W Bush didn’t even say a Thanksgiving Day prayer in Saudi waters. The President and the USA troops waited until they were in international waters.
Mark A says
I’ll never watch another Real Madrid game.
Stan Lee says
Leave it to the Spanish to appease. They’ll keep doing it until another “El Cid” shows up, but this time it could be too late. The Muslims can parade their logo, but the cross is too much for them to bear! In that case, in my opinion, the cross stays, the Muslims will find it won’t harm them. And, if they really have gastric disturbances about it, they should hop over that wee stretch of water to their homelands and stay there.
Until then “Real Madrid changes to “Unreal Madrid.”.
Pal says
Italy’s Cultural Enrichment:
A Moslem washes between his back cheeks in the open, with his right hand (!), and drinks water from its hollow:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFvo9k4Tyyw
Wasn’t all cultures and Gods equal?…
rappini says
What a bunch of pussies.
David says
Spain has just submitted to sharia.
John A. Marre says
Little by little they are winning and the West is helping them.
Lydia says
Interesting that I saw another post on jihadwatch.org about how someone wanted to make Feb. 1 ‘wearing a hijab’ day before they ‘judge’ or something like that. So anyone who has their eyes open can see what direction this is moving in. Hijabs are moving in and people are removing symbols of Christianity. All in the name of ‘tolerance’ we presume? The agenda is obvious. First of all, I am both offensive and defensive in expression of my Christian faith. It goes wherever I go because it is in my heart, and I leave it at no one’s doorstep. All similar applications of my Christian faith apply. I evangelize, wear crosses, display crosses, and whatever else. If someone is offended, my very tolerant answer to them is: “TOO BAD!” And that is true even if I am on their turf, but these people are coming into the West and expecting the West to cater to them. They martyr Christians in the middle east because that is what their ‘holy’ book tells them to do (research this, it is by definition NOT a religion of peace but of murder of the innocent). Then the trojan horse enters Europe and the terror continues, next it will be here more and more. I already know enough to judge based on 1. My religion, 2. Their religion, 3. The actions of those in my religion, 4. The actions of those in their religion, and the verdict is in; Islam is a religion of violence, murder, bloodshed (in other ways too) and oppression. I can see that from this end of the stadium, where I’m staying. I say: Let them wear crosses to show ‘solidarity’ with Christians, and that they are not out to persecute and kill us! I dare them. By the way, this is all a well orchestrated agenda leading to the one world religion, government, and economy under antichrist. All the chess pieces are moving.