TagsTagsMany were surprised and pleased when a player for the Ghanaian soccer team waved an Israeli flag during World Cup victory celebrations. Others were surprised and not happy at all. Today the Ghana Football Association issued an abject apology to the world’s Israel-haters: Ghana FA apologizes for Israeli flag. (Hat tip: LGF ...
How can anyone resist the allure of shari’a law? Two die as hardline Islamists ban World Cup. Hardline Islamic courts shut cinema halls and barred residents from watching the World Cup, prompting scores of civilians to protest the ban in which two people were killed, court officials and residents have said. The ...
Saudi cleric Nasser bin Sliman Al-Omar explains why watching the World Cup may cause you to be condemned to eternal torment. (Courtesy MEMRI TV.) [Video] Nasser bin Sliman Al-Omar: With regard to the World Cup... Let me ask you, brother Muhammad... May Allah protect your daughter and sons, but imagine that you ...
The German resort town of Bad Nauheim is doing everything they can to accommodate the wishes of their new overlords: Hotel cleans up for Saudis. (Hat tip: Kilgore Trout.) The pictures of naked women are being removed from the hotel’s health spa, the hard-core porn channels switched off and all the ...
At NRO, Tom Gross reports that FIFA, the supposedly apolitical organization in charge of world soccer, seems to have a sudden concern about the condition of soccer fields in the Gaza Strip—soccer fields used to launch rockets into Israel: Football Killing Fields. FIFA has condemned Israel for an air strike on ...