"... they were urged to shout the mournful cry, 'Ya Hossein!,' or 'O Hussein!' if Iran scored."
Iran beat South Korea in the World Cup qualifying match, but it was the eve of Ashura, the Shiite's "most solemn and sorrowful holiday" and "the religious authorities said the match could proceed if the stadium were turned into a place of mourning, with black banners commemorating the death of Hussein, a grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, more than 1,300 years ago."
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Why are we accommodating savages? Are we doing Islam any favors by allowing them to threaten and terrorize everyone else?
It would be better for muslims if they grew up and modernized. It would be much kinder to their future generations if we forced them to now.
War is coming
We're already in a war, for like the last forty years.
Mac,
Yeah, I mean a hot war and not a cold war.
Ashura and Yom Kippur fall on the same day? Too cool.
And the Cubs/Giants game was on Yom Kippur.
I prefer the USA custom of having the game go on and letting those who are religious decide for themselves what to do.
1,300 years? Move on.
No kidding Achilles, why is the civilized world even pretending to deal with these savages. They should remain a pariah regime until they change. Why the jugged ear jesus traded away all our leverage still escapes me. Does anyone think they have stopped working on an a-bomb and a delivery system?
I think it's great they yell our President's middle name. Great.
"Achilles said...
Why are we accommodating savages?"
The game was being played in Tehran. If those goatherds want to mourn so be it.
We're already in a war, for like the last forty years.
More like 1,400 years......
Where does this impulse to wrap things in black cloth come from?
Religious authorities: You may play but you must wrap the entire stadium in a burka!
Lyle Smith
I meant Global Warming, er Climate Change, it's a much greater threat than ISIS or the Russians or the Chinese.
Persians and Koreans playing a colonial game.
"Curious George Said...
The game was being played in Tehran. If those goatherds want to mourn so be it."
An Iranian soccer player named Alireza Jahanbakhsh who plays for Dutch club AZ Alkmaar will not be playing in 2 international matches against Maccabi Tel Aviv in Israel.
In light of the 'tension' between Iran and Israel, the club decided not to put the player in the situation of not being able to play, or perhaps even enter Iran, if he has Israeli visa stamps in his passport.
Not just in Iran.
Durka Durka
Mac McConnell said...
Lyle Smith
I meant Global Warming, er Climate Change, it's a much greater threat than ISIS or the Russians or the Chinese.
10/12/16, 3:26 PM
That's nothing. Someone said pussy once.
"That's nothing. Someone said pussy once."
I prefer the word "muffin", chicks dig it.
"Persians and Koreans playing a colonial game."
True that. A British game widely exported to the colonies.
Especially the Persians, as various bits of Persia were at various times under British occupation or their leaders reporting to British agents or residents.
The Koreans - well, that's something else. That's cultural appropriation, crude and raw, they had no beef with the British.
Is self-flagellation a foul in soccer?
The key attractiveness of soccer to elites is that it is anti-American. The key attractiveness of soccer to non-elites is the temporary resumption of gladiatorial combat.
Not on the field, but in the stands, for clarification.
Actually, the Iranian team should have beaten themselves, if they were truly devout.
two generations too late.
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