Champagne. Like freedom of speech, cartoons and seeing eye dogs, a champagne toast may be one of those sacrifices that have to be made in the name of the goddess of the new age of multicultural man.
Her name is sensitivity. And she is blind because she wears a burka. Here’s her manifestation as another tradition falls.
The Football Association are to scrap the tradition of awarding a case of champagne to the FA Cup winners out of respect for players’ religious beliefs.
English football’s governing body have a long held tradition of placing a case of bubbly in the winning dressing room on cup final day as a congratulatory gesture to the victors.
But following internal discussions the FA are abandoning the idea so not to offend players whose religious beliefs forbid alcohol use.
It’s lovely of the FA to think of all the Mormon soccer players.
Obviously such accommodations wouldn’t be made for the Mormons. Much as nobody would take hamburgers off the menu out of sensitivity to Hindus or shellfish out of concern for the Jews.
Sensitivity is another name for fear.
The Muslim faith strictly prohibits alcohol, while it is not recommended in other religions. Some players are also tee-total and under the legal age to consume alcohol, further considerations for the FA.
Jubilant scenes of euphoric players spraying champagne around the winning dressing room following victory in the final have become the norm over the years.
But such scenes provide obvious difficulties for Muslim players, even if they do not consume the champagne.
The FA will instead put a case of an alcohol-free champagne substitute in the winning dressing room so players can replicate those spraying celebrations.
An alcohol-free champagne is the perfect embodiment of modern Europe. It has external similarities, but it’s ersatz and unreal.
Do winning teams give up and abandon their victory celebrations?
Is Europe winning or is it losing?
justine says
how many muslims play soccer??? don’t tell me they don’t imbibe when the imam isn’t looking. this is another fun thing taken away. muslims have no sense at all; just pure stupidity and hate. so the people who want to celebrate with the real stuff have to sacrifice so as not to offend the ‘muslim’ sensitivities; that is PURE bs. if they don’t like it, they have the option to leave. fear and hate motivates muslims to push their agenda on others; do not comply; let them leave if they are ‘offended’; poor babies.
Sun says
There are quite a few Muslim soccer players in European teams.
Just recently, the famous German player Mehmet Ozil has invited Reyip Erdogan to his wedding this summer. Ozil is born in Germany, lives in Germany and made a fortune in Germany. Yet, he calls Reyip Erdogan his President.
That’s how integration of most of the Muslims works in Europe – even within 2nd and 3rd generation.
Dawne says
Yes, that’s very telling
No Muzzies Here says
Alcohol is bad in that religion. But slicing the neck of a non-believer is perfectly OK, and is in fact highly recommended.
gravenimage says
Yes–Islamic “morality”.
Spiro says
I have never know a Muslim who didn’t drink alcohol
Some in excess
9/11 terrioist were known to frequent Florida strip clubs and drink booze
I’m getting so I could give up on non Muslims sticking up for themselves
They bend over for every demand
When will western civilation grow a spine
Brian hoff says
The 9 11 terrorist arenot good muslim.
CogitoErgoSum says
Brian, please tell us why.
gravenimage says
“Brian hoff”–really, “DefenderofIslam”–wrote:
The 9 11 terrorist arenot good muslim.
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The purpose of violent Jihad is to impose brutal Shari’ah law on us. “DefenderofIslam” has said that as soon as they can, through force or sheer numbers, that he and his fellow Muslims intend to destroy the Constitution and implement the horrors of Islamic law on us.
So his goals and those of the pious 9/11 Jihad terrorists are just the same.
CRUSADER says
Muslims spike their hot teas, they just add lots of sugar to cover and mask the concoction.
As for the 9-11 perps, it’s as with the Hashashin group of the 11th Century….
They imbibed in order to ready themselves for the paradise after committing murders.
Muslim paradise allows for alcohol to run like water and flow over the bountiful chests of houris.
(Houris, according to Irshad Manji, are raisins, and what are raisins but dried grapes….)
Next time you tilt a glass of bubbly or vino, consider these things which Allah allows and forbids.
FYI says
Thought for the day
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The “prophet” of islam ORDERED his followers to drink camel pee{as a health tonic}
Sahih Bukhari 8:82:794
“..They did so and were alright”
Sahih Muslim 16:4130
So, drinking the excretory waste product of a notoriously foul swelling beast is OK
but imbibing alcohol is frowned upon in islam?
Which is more disgusting:drinking Alcohol or the liquified waste of an ANIMAL…?
Who even drinks animal pee?The INSANE.
Jay says
The history of violence associated with the Muslim faith is beyond comprehension, i.e., rape, beheadings, setting people on fire in cages, throwing people off buildings, drowning, stabbings, driving cars into crowds and marketplaces, bombings, strapping bombs to young children, no go zones, war crimes, brutal treatments of prisoners, brutal treatment of women and children, etc etc.
Are we supposed to believe these savages are insulted by champagne?? Give me a break!
I think it’s a huge mistake to change our traditions to accommodate these brutal people! We have proud customs that should never be compromised for such a barbaric group of people. No one said they have to play soccer??
God bless and save America!
Trump,2020. Our only hope !????????????
Oh my papa he was so good to me says
No more popping champagne for Whining soccer teams.
And that photograph of Anjem Choudary with a can of Fosters beer was a fake -right?
Put on the kettle for a cup of Twinings Muslim Breakfast Tea -that’s as good as it’s going to get for the rest of the day.
Watto35 says
So the Football Association is joining the insanity? Are they also going to supply the winning team with young boys so they perform Bacha Bazi?
Jim Conch says
Are they kidding, they don’t want to offend the ‘sensitivites’ of the muslims. Wow, who ever said they were sensitive?
A_M_Swallow says
Sensitivity is a two way street. For every action taken by whites out of ‘sensitivity’ Muslims should assume they have to make 10 sensitive actions. What are they giving up?
James Lincoln says
This feature article made me think of an analogy…
I was in the grocery store the other day getting ready to buy a pork chop.
I had this feeling that in the near future, a Muslim may approach me and say something like: “You can’t buy that because it is against my religion.”
I would reply: “But it’s not against my religion”.
And then he would say: “But my religion is the one that counts.”
A_M_Swallow says
Having religiously intolerant people in Britain offends by secular sensibilities. Deport the Imams.
Peter WF says
Compliance of the indigenous population is diversity.
Quarters says
They know what they are
They know what they a-a-are
The FA are hypocrites
They know what they are
https://clubwembley.wembleystadium.com/FoodDrink/FoodOutlets
CRUSADER says
Sufi poets and Shi’ite celebrations touted the fruit of the vine.
Champagne is from the region where Templars were from.
Sports has had a long standing fascination in society as where what we hold high as champions are an expression of where we are as a society.
Here’s a bit on basketball legend Kareem Abdul Jabbar (Lew Alcindor) on his Islamic conversion…
(note that he does not call out Islam for enforcing slavery upon the world, even though his own name means serving-slave) :
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Many Americans openly questioned Abdul-Jabbar’s religious conversion.
Even his parents — who had raised Kareem in the Catholic faith — were confused by the decision, but in a Sunday article for Al Jazeera America, the hall-of-famer finally spilled the secrets behind his spiritual transformation:
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The transition from Lew to Kareem was not merely a change in celebrity brand name — like Sean Combs to Puff Daddy to Diddy to P. Diddy — but a transformation of heart, mind and soul. I used to be Lew Alcindor, the pale reflection of what white America expected of me. Now I’m Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the manifestation of my African history, culture and beliefs…
The question I’m often asked is why I had to pick a religion so foreign to American culture and a name that was hard for people to pronounce. Some fans took it very personally, as if I had firebombed their church while tearing up an American flag. Actually, I was rejecting the religion that was foreign to my American culture and embracing one that was part of my black African heritage. (An estimated 15 to 30 percent of slaves brought from Africa were Muslims.) Fans thought I joined the Nation of Islam, an American Islamic movement founded in Detroit in 1930. Although I was greatly influenced by Malcolm X, a leader in the Nation of Islam, I chose not to join because I wanted to focus more on the spiritual rather than political aspects. Eventually, Malcolm rejected the group right before three of its members assassinated him…
The adoption of a new name was an extension of my rejection of all things in my life that related to the enslavement of my family and people. Alcindor was a French planter in the West Indies who owned my ancestors. My forebears were Yoruba people, from present day Nigeria. Keeping the name of my family’s slave master seemed somehow to dishonor them. His name felt like a branded scar of shame…
From that year to this, I have never wavered or regretted my decision to convert to Islam. When I look back, I wish I could have done it in a more private way, without all the publicity and fuss that followed. But at the time I was adding my voice to the civil rights movement by denouncing the legacy of slavery and the religious institutions that had supported it. That made it more political than I had intended and distracted from what was, for me, a much more personal journey…
Kermit the Frog famously complained, “It’s not easy being green.” Try being Muslim in America.
According to a Pew Research Center poll on attitudes about major religious groups, the U.S. public has the least regard for Muslims — slightly less than it has for atheists — even though Islam is the third-largest faith in America. The acts of aggression, terrorism and inhumanity committed by those claiming to be Muslims have made the rest of the world afraid of us. Without really knowing the peaceful practices of most of the world’s 1.6 billion Muslims, they see only the worst examples. Part of my conversion to Islam is accepting the responsibility to teach others about my religion, not to convert them but to co-exist with them through mutual respect, support and peace. One world does not have to mean one religion, just one belief in living in peace.
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— report in Al-Jazeera
KWJ says
So Kareem joined Islam whose prophet held slaves and imams in Mauritania still justify slavery since “It’s always been a part of Islam.” Forget the huge Arab slave trade and castrations of young black Africans. Nigeria didn’t even take slavery off their books until 2003 and blacks own slaves too. Muslim Arabs call black Africans and…slave…and there You Tube videos of such African blacks complaining about it. Apparently in Sudan, as the previous president has been ousted, some said they were sick of “brown Arabs” ruling them…that they are a Black Country.
Kareem doesn’t appear to be that bright about Islam nor Africa. Just because one is resentful about slavery doesn’t mean they should jump into something even worse as a means of rejection. He himself prospered more than most Africans.
If I ever meet a Black Muslim I will ask them why they adhere to a religion started by a bunch of racist, slave-trading Arabians. Muhammad is allegedly the perfect man. Some people just don’t think things out.
Giacomo Latta says
Learn to read, Kareem. Then start with the koran. ”I was adding my voice to the civil rights movement by denouncing the legacy of slavery …”? You mean like the slavery promoted in the koran and practised by muslims (when they get a chance) to this very day? Don’t bother applying to Mensa.
Chuck says
I don’t see those soccer players complaining about the murder being committed by the “radicalized” ones on Easter Sunday.
infidel says
Even Eu football!!!! Then what else is left??
Tom says
Alcohol free champagne substitute …. perfectly epitomizes what the UK equivalent of multiculturalism has become, shallow, without body or character, bland, deceptive and deceitful.
Remember “diversity is our strength” as long as that diversity favours the currently “chosen one’s”.
This ridiculous appeasement is just one more reason why British football teams should ensure that their squad’s consist of British players developed through their own academies.
If it is acceptable to discriminate in favour of the minority then it should also be acceptable to discriminate in favour of the majority.
The sword of appeasement is double edged and can be wielded both ways.
Terra Nova says
Any other wishes, people of Islam. the peaceful religion?