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Ghana Apologises To Arab Diplomats Over Israel Flag (20 Viewers)
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Seven said:
Don't act like that. Don't tell me every Palestina citizen wants Ghana out of the World Cup, because of something like this. Please, ReBel's history has got nothing to do with this. He's just being very very intolerant and extremely agressive.
Extremely Agressive??
Yes, and I was banned 15 times...
The thing everyone forgets is that fans of the player's club had treked all the way to Germany just to watch him play. Should such love not be returned? The flag was the player's symbol for the love of his club and its fans, not his preference of religions. Such actions require no apologies and any reasonable person can see that. But alas not everyone is reasonable as we saw with the Denmark/muhammed issue.
As I am in germany this world cup showed me one thing, just come to germany and watch how different people, from differnt countries, with differnt relligions and colors are enjoying together and are just friends.
the player of ghana just showed one flag, he did nothing bad to palastinan people or moslems, we should try to solve our problems and not to create problems from such things.
the player of ghana just showed one flag, he did nothing bad to palastinan people or moslems, we should try to solve our problems and not to create problems from such things.
Seven said:
Don't act like that. Don't tell me every Palestina citizen wants Ghana out of the World Cup, because of something like this. Please, ReBel's history has got nothing to do with this. He's just being very very intolerant and extremely agressive.
I'm not even saying I agree with ReBel, I'm just saying that 99% of you have no idea what a Palestinian goes through on a daily bases; what you read is not even half of it, so for you to come here and accuse and criticize him is very ignorant.
Lemme put it in terms you'll understand in...
Can you blame 2 Pac and Biggie for their lyrics? No? Why? because they grew up in that kind of environment. You don't support it, you know it's wrong, but you understand them what their coming from. Because anyone who goes through such conditions is bound to be a in a certain way. Yet, when someone like ReBel says something just as similar, he's straight up accused of all kinds of shit.
In an era and sport where waving a national flag has far more to do with player identities than with national politics (see: the coming lack of Ukranian flags at the San Siro), this incident underscores a couple of things where an event like the WC can play a role.
On the one hand, you have trigger-happy people who will jump at any opportunity to intepret someone's expression of familial or club allegiance as an overt endorsement of human rights violations. Sorry to say, but that's one big DUH. An incident like this holds up a mirror to those who make no attempt to recognize the right for pluralist societies to exist -- and these people can show a great intolerance for anything other than their own way of life and own way of thinking.
On the other hand, I appreciate the fact that the World Cup provides a true world stage. That the whole world can witness goal celebrations with bows to Mecca in the world's grandest sporting stage shows that the pluralist question goes for everybody. And while it would be simplistic to say that there are those who view everything in the world through Israel-or-Palestine-tinted glasses, and they need to get over themselves and recognize that other realities exist beyond their own narrow thinking ... it also goes that it's a bit clueless and culturally insensitive for an Israel flag-waver to think that there won't be people who will interpret that as some sort of political statement.
Hey, we have people waving Mexican flags at U.S. rallies in support of more liberal immigration laws.
Which is clearly their right to express how they feel personal solidarity to a cause. But at least try to get a clue as to how others will interpret it. It may not stop you from doing it, but at least do what you can to not be all dumbfounded by the reaction from some circles. It really isn't brain surgery to get clued in about the world on such a visible level.
On the one hand, you have trigger-happy people who will jump at any opportunity to intepret someone's expression of familial or club allegiance as an overt endorsement of human rights violations. Sorry to say, but that's one big DUH. An incident like this holds up a mirror to those who make no attempt to recognize the right for pluralist societies to exist -- and these people can show a great intolerance for anything other than their own way of life and own way of thinking.
On the other hand, I appreciate the fact that the World Cup provides a true world stage. That the whole world can witness goal celebrations with bows to Mecca in the world's grandest sporting stage shows that the pluralist question goes for everybody. And while it would be simplistic to say that there are those who view everything in the world through Israel-or-Palestine-tinted glasses, and they need to get over themselves and recognize that other realities exist beyond their own narrow thinking ... it also goes that it's a bit clueless and culturally insensitive for an Israel flag-waver to think that there won't be people who will interpret that as some sort of political statement.
Hey, we have people waving Mexican flags at U.S. rallies in support of more liberal immigration laws.
Which is clearly their right to express how they feel personal solidarity to a cause. But at least try to get a clue as to how others will interpret it. It may not stop you from doing it, but at least do what you can to not be all dumbfounded by the reaction from some circles. It really isn't brain surgery to get clued in about the world on such a visible level.Exactly...
How many of those criticized me watched news in the same day whan that Ghanaian player did what he did??
Did you read somewhere that a family with 8 members were bombed while spending their day on a picnic on Gaza beach?? Did you see the only alive daughter of this family crying on the body of her father and yelling sadly??
When you watch something like that, and some ignorant man comes at night to waive the flag of those who did the massacre in the morning, then you'll understand why people here were annoyed by that...
How many of those criticized me watched news in the same day whan that Ghanaian player did what he did??
Did you read somewhere that a family with 8 members were bombed while spending their day on a picnic on Gaza beach?? Did you see the only alive daughter of this family crying on the body of her father and yelling sadly??
When you watch something like that, and some ignorant man comes at night to waive the flag of those who did the massacre in the morning, then you'll understand why people here were annoyed by that...
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