A Catholic footballer has been charged with "dsturbing the peace" because he "blessed himself" before the fans before a football match in Scotland. Apparently he might have offended some Rangers fans. I sthis not madness?
2006-08-26 06:50:45 · 24 answers · asked by cognito44 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
OK, hibee, since you seem so knowledgeable, what else did he do?
2006-08-26 07:02:19 · update #1
joe, I think you strayed onto this qn by mistake. I hope so because your beeef with whoever seems to be irrelevant to the qn I asked.
2006-08-27 02:59:29 · update #2
I think you need to understand the culture of football in Scotland, especially between the two teams Rangers and Celtic. There is a big rivalry between these two teams. There is also a large sectarian element to football in Scotland, especially with these teams. Rangers are Protestant and Celtic catholic, and therefore, a blessing that is seen as a Catholic blessing could have been interpreted as being a provocation.
I stress that this is really unique to this particular situation, I don't think it would have caused such an uproar if it had been any other two teams that were playing.
This is not to say that I think it was right that he was charged with disturbing the peace, but I just thought I'd give a bit of background to why this caused such a fuss.
2006-08-26 09:39:25 · answer #1 · answered by Jude 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Catholic/ Protestant rivalry between Glasgow Celtic and Glasgow Rangers is Infamous and The Player Obviously knows this and Blessed himself to incite the Rangers fans. It's bad enough the fans trying to knock each others heads off over religion without the players getting involved. So yeah this player should be punished as he was inciting the fans not innocently blessing himself, was he!!!!
2006-08-26 07:10:28 · answer #2 · answered by st_john_gumby 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its shameful for a few reasons.
NO 1 Why bring this into football? Football has nothing to do with religion. If it has then your not welcome into football.
No2 Its even worse when you use religion to incite the crowd.
No 3 Where did he do this blessing as you put it?
No 4 Don't even call yourself Scottish for doing this kind of crap.
No 5 Its got to be stamped out, and i shall be the first to send a complaint to the SFA to get any player fined and if need be banned.
NO 6 Your call guys, for i want improvement in my Scottish teams, not this kind of crap. racism
2006-08-26 07:18:37 · answer #3 · answered by Ne Obliviscaris 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First of all my name is not JOY its joe.
Yes Malcolm X was a racist you idiot. He was killed because he started preaching a message of equality
And how did you choose an ignorant degenerate's answer of defining racism as the best answer when it didn't even answer the damn question you asked. Can you not read. Or maybe you do not comprehend the questions you ask. You need to struggle with the opinions of others until you get an education. You need to be thought of as ignorant/racist in your views and statements because you make no sense.
Sit down in a corner little boy and and shut up when grown fokes are talking. Speak only when you are spoken to.
2006-08-26 16:11:12 · answer #4 · answered by joe 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Difficult for me to understand, how the few outweigh the needs of the many.Soon the sight of a Church may be offensive. No matter what religion you are , you should stand against this , because we are next. I am not a Catholic and It does not offend , he's not telling anyone else to follow him.
Even if one small minded Atheist was offended, should it be law.
2006-08-26 07:07:21 · answer #5 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is madness, People cuss, show rudeness, promote debauchery and wanton immorality all the time. But this guy just wanted to bless himself and some people go into convulsions. Give me a break!
2006-08-26 06:55:54 · answer #6 · answered by jesus_lover1962 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
So did everyone get all upset about it? Like starting a riot? I always thought disturbibng the peace was starting a riot or coming in a place and screaming at the top of your lungs. As long as he didn't cause a huge uproar, why do people care?
2006-08-26 06:54:14 · answer #7 · answered by Ell 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Is bizarre and surely goes against the religious tolerance bill that Labour are always going on about? Or is that just for certain religions?
2006-08-26 06:57:15 · answer #8 · answered by fletcheyc 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
That's crazy. Bless him for having the courage to go against the flow and declare his beliefs.
2006-08-26 06:56:09 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
he got what he deserved. why do it in front of thousands of people at a football match hes just plain stupid
2006-08-26 08:05:25 · answer #10 · answered by kev 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋