Muslim Lawyer sues Inter Milan for “Offensive” Jersey
December 11, 2007 by Joecephus
What do you do when your team loses? Sue of course.
In honor of their 100th anniversary Italian soccer club, F.C. Internazionale Milano, better known as Inter Milan has brought out a special kit to wear that marks part of the teams history. The shirt design was inspired by the flag and coat of arms of the city of Milan and is one that often times Inter Milan would use for special occasions.
In the late 1920’s/early 1930’s the shirt was regularly worn while the club was known as A.S. Ambrosiana, before they revorted back to the more beloved Inter Milan name.
Now a Turkish lawyer is suing the club for wearing the kit, claiming that the “Crusader-style” shirt is offensive to Muslim sensibilities.
Baris Kaska, a lawyer in Izmir who specialises in European law, said that he had lodged a complaint in a local court against Inter Milan, which last month played the Istanbul team Fenerbahce in a Champions League match at the San Siro stadium in Milan. The Inter players wore a new strip – a white shirt with a giant red cross on it – marking the club’s centenary.
Mr Kaska said he was not only seeking damages but was also appealing to Uefa to annul the match, which Inter won 3-0. “That cross only brings one thing to mind – the symbol of the Templar Knights,” he said. “It made me think immediately of the bloody days of the past. While I was watching the game I felt profound grief in my soul.” Mr Kaska told the Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia that the cross symbolised “Western racist superiority over Islam”.
He said that Inter had “manifested in the most explicit manner the superiority of one religion over another”. He said the court had contacted both Uefa and Fifa to convey his demand that Inter should be “heavily fined for displaying an offensive symbol”. “How could Uefa allow this?“demanded the Turkish paper Radikal.
I’m sure that by the end of the week Islamic Rage boy and the rest of the so-called protestors of the religion of peace will be marching in the streets screaming “behead all those who insult Islam” and other peaceful comments.
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