The article is actually pretty good Dave..........and it sticks in my throat to say it. If you can show me where it is factually incorrect then please tell me now. Believe it or not...despite what Dieudonne might think, The Holocaust did happen.....
I wonder if we all looked hard how many nazi poses happen on a football pitch each match ? Gazza was dreadful also condoning excessive drink abuse during his celebrations that industry has killed billions
I agree it did happen and one crazy view of a Dieudonne won't change my mind there ... Point is he ain't a footballer and pretty sure plenty share his viewpoint and many more including me don't ... Anelka by the way is a different man who was also born in France ... Called Le Sulk on here this evening using French language In the past the French have also been called yellow cowards and some posters even go further with anti French signatures This place is full of opinions Should we not get our own house in order before we start debating racism ?
What we are talking about here Dave is some c*** (Anelka) who thinks its cool/radical/hip (insert your choice) to show solidarity with another c*** (Dieudonne), who is nothing more than an anti-semite, holocaust denying w*****, who thinks it funny to take the p*** out of an event that saw millions of innocent men, women and children killed in the most horrible way imaginable. And if we let people like this continue to spout their sick, vicious horrible lies....then other, younger members of this world of ours, may also think its hip and cool, to do and think the same. And that reason alone Dave, is why i feel so strongly about this.
Summarizing then: Anelka shows solidarity with a "friend" who has already been taken to task for a controversial salute, does the same salute himself, then pleads ignorance. Did I read that right? It is too late for the French. They have been over-run by Muslims who have got too far in their heads. I sure hope that the United Kingdom doesn't suffer the same fate in the future. I'd like to think that your children will not be gunned down near their school just because of their religion.
After your first sentence a spectacularly unhelpful post from the world centre of school massacres (how many of them are Muslim generated?). Which is doubtless what we'll be discussing on this thread from now on. Cheers.
Agreed. Utter bollocks Dave. Anelka knew exactly what he was doing. It was clearly a religious/political gesture.
As I opined at the start of the thread, the debate was instigated by Nicolas Anelka's choices. Ours are just reflections on his posturing.
Hope you don't mind an outsider commenting. I was flicking through the reactions to Sunday's game but this subject isn't really only related to QPR, but rather one that affects English football (and potentially society) as a whole, and was the only thread i've seen on the subject. It's an excellent debate by the way. One interesting aspect about this is that it demonstrates the power of the internet. Had Anelka done this 20 years ago most would not have batted an eyelid and I suspect even the national press would not have picked it up. Now there is no escape for anyone who wants to do this kind of thing. Obviously it's impossible to read Anelka's mind and it is remotely feasible that he did not know what offence his actions would cause - as he has lived in the UK on and off for the last 16 years I would very much doubt that. The FA has to be careful with any sanction it imposes - for me whatever it does it can't be less than that given to Suarez as it sends out a dangerous signal - one rule for one group and another for others. On the other hand they then need to decide whether to go further. As others have pointed out John Terry and Luis suarez made comments to one person in the middle of an already heated exchange and were rightly punished. Had either of them celebrated a goal with a Nazi salute and said it wasn't meant as a political gesture but rather in support of a friend I'm pretty sure the punishment would have been even more severe. I hope the FA does not back out of taking action on the basis that there could be a backlash from the Muslim community - there is no reason why there should be and if it is then it could not in any way shape or form be seen to be reasonable. Obviously if a player in the future is guilty of making an anti islamic gesture then they would deserve to receive similar sanction.
I think Anelka was very aware of what he was doing otherwise why would he have done it? He's just trying to play the innocent now there's a backlash. As you say Dan, the FA need to send a clear message regardless of what any Muslims or any others may think, they can't pussyfoot round it for any reason...
Yes It was but I bet you and many others had no idea what until you were influenced by the media and then guess what all of a sudden opinions flow There is no place for any celebration that could insight bad feeling in the game of football. Nick was wrong to do this as it has caused offence however this gesture is well known to me and has been for some time ... its a youth thing and intended to be anti establishment. Yes there is a link between him and Dieudonne and from that all hell has been assumed. In the UK we have a lot worse people in the public eye who ruffle the feathers of the fools who read the daily Mail ... start with Frankie Boyle, Russell Brand and a host of others ... Christ even go back to Freddie Starr or the idiots of Halo Halo ... Either way we are allowed to be open until the Daily Mail and other hypocritical newspaper latch onto it. In France you have a completely different culture ... miles away from anyone can understand on here I bet .... people who i have met over the years who have shared the horrors what occurred during the WW2 some things as terrible as anything else you care to bring up. In the UK we laugh it all off and put all French people given half a chance into the same pigeon hole ... frogs, cowards etc etc ... while the UK takes the credit for winning ... nowhere near the real truth and we can be openly racist towards the French because we are allowed to make the rules as we see fit I am sick of the attitude of many naive people in the UK who simple have no idea about different cultural aspects and jump on the band wagon Anelka anti-Semitic gesture is complete bullshit and does not mean that whatsoever.... It is chosen as disorder or chaos similar to the symbols used in our very own punk rock movement What shouldn't a nation have the freedom to protest as most governments rule by fear anyway. The French government hate Dieudonne because he exposes them all the time in France ... the same as Ben Elton did with that evil cow Thatcher The European Jewish Congress have again got it completely wrong as usual ... The quenelle is firstly anti-establishment gesture and there are links against the so called Jewish Plot so what does England do? ... Brings up one of the most terrible acts of WW2 and plonks it straight on the cake many on here have eaten. The gesture is now Viral and that rakes up opinions .. but don't expect me to sit here quietly when i am told i am talking bollocks when i know and feel i have a valid point to be made here Expect the tee shirts next lads: The Quenelle: anti-Zionist and anti-establishment and I welcome personally welcome the open debate and its exposure ... I hope: Dieudonne sues these bastards and wins if i am honest ... he has views I certainly don't agree with but this entire episode is a simple case of power attempting to shut a few people up ... I hope it back fires Again no place in football for any religious or political view I agree ... then someone ban Twitter and the media for starters.
I am not in Football and nor was Elton and yes my views on Thatcher are exactly that. I apologise if anyone finds that offensive
Would that be the same Ben Elton who championed the hounding of 'sexist' Benny Hill to the point ITV sacked him? You can angle anything to suit your views but when those views are poisonous it's the thin end of the wedge. Let's all celebrate the gas chambers in jokes as Dieudonne does, quite hilarious...
DT, seems to me there has been much more fuss in France than there has here about this. Doesn't matter what Anelka and this idiot comedian claim the quenelle stands for, it is used in explicitly anti semitic circumstances - at synagogues, outside concentration camps etc. The French are seriously pissed off about it, and I don't blame them. And frankly, Anelka has just about as much credibility as Barton in making 'anti-establishment' gestures. He's a multi millionaire footballer, hawking his skills around the world, not some squatter joining anti-globalisation protests. Finally, look at the gesture itself. It's a repressed Nazi salute, easy to see one arm held rigid pre salute, the other holding it down. Why pick this as your 'anti-establishment' gesture?
This debate doesn't need to get nasty Queens. We are all adults and it would be a credit to the board for this to stay level headed. So far, so good. (Excuse my language on earlier posts...It wasn't meant in an agressive manner, even though it might look like it to some)
