A fair amount of drivel going on here leaving one or two questions to be answered.
First off, there's an AWFUL lot of assumption on here that Imaz is a Muslim. I've been racking my brain and searching his posts on those kind of threads trying to remember him actually confirming that - or even making a stand on religion. Type his name into search and check for yourselves if that's so important to you - but take my advice, never act (or speak) on assumption. Always best to check the facts rather than to speak like a knobhead.
Unless his 'nice photo, mashallah' comment was a pisstake, it very strongly suggests that he is Muslim.
DT's 'joke' about his name sounding like a household detergent or words to that effect can't have helped either.
Come on - DT could have said the same about a Caucasian bloke called Daz or Gaz and the intentions would have been the same - jovial joshing. If Imaz sees everything as a potential insult, I feel sorry for him.
He also put to me a context from his own experience. When in Italy, his Italian-looking son being schooled there ended up getting pissed on in the shower by kids from his own school, simply for being 'different' (in background). How would you feel if that happened to your kid because of his/her parental background? Could this be to his mind what's been going on here?
That's disgusting. Nevertheless, if the poor bloke's seeing every bit of trivial play as a pogrom, maybe this break will do him some good and put things into better perspective. Overall, I'm sure he's a nice gentleman, but even nice gentlemen should be criticized where they are overly dramatic and live with an unfounded faith.
I see that the artist now known as Jerel Ifil, who assumes Imaz 'engineered' his own departure, refers to me as Atticus Finch. Yet another veiled put-down but I'll take it as a compliment. However, I wouldn't allow his articulate presentation convince you of his rationale. I spent a number of posts a while back when he was Leeds' mod, encouraging him to change his user name if he wanted to interact with me. What was his user name? Il Duce ffs! He protested that the name didn't mean he's a fascist... but he ended up taking my point and changing it to Loiner (citizen of Leeds). Confused kid or what?
That's a cheap, cheap smear. I signed up to this site never having had a login on the old 606, and wanted to immediately get about the business of bashing some Leeds bashers who'd taken over our board. I wanted something snappy and assertive, and the Italian word for 'the leader' sprang to mind. I've never been a fascist, and when you convinced me the username could be construed as implying that, I didn't hesitate to change it to something I actually had time to think about.
My outlook on the world has for the last few years been the exact opposite of fascism. I believe in liberal society and in liberal economics. Fascists want both those things to be meticulously controlled. I try to have a Socratic mental process, so yes, sometimes I may appear confused and do change my views from time to time. Maybe I have been confused over the last year or two, but my 'rationale', as you put it, is not to put people down because of their ethnic background. It's to be a messenger for the gospel of Leeds United, and a critic of the gospels of irrationality and oppression.
I read the threads on the QPR Board pretty often as you have some interesting discussions going on and you have some interesting threads which i enjoy reading.
You always have a couple of morons on most boards on this site. The problem is if the mods allow these users to carry on making abusive posts and taking the piss out of other posters, they will run riot and ruin it for the rest. This is what happened on 606 and now thats been shut down.
No surprise to see that General Chat moron Jerel involved in this. You know what kind of a person he is when he makes posts taking the piss out of football disasters.
More muck-raking from the past, then. Cheers.
