It was not an “anti-Muslim banner”, it was an anti mosque banner.
An anti-Muslim banner adorned with logos for the far-right political group United Patriots Front was raised at the MCG during Friday night’s AFL clash between Collingwood and Richmond.
Anyway, that’s not a banner. THIS is a banner.
Update:
AFL commissars should be banned for life allowing that. Their hypocrisy is astounding. This was from last weekends game against the crows
Polish Football Fans Unfurl 50-Foot ‘Stand And Defend Christianity’ Banner At Premier League Match
Polish football (soccer) fans unveiled an enormous anti mass migration banner at Sunday’s Silesian Wrocław match against Poznań. Images from the match last night show a giant crusader defending Europe from invading jihadists in boats labelled USS Hussein, USS Bin Laden and USS ISIS.
Just a week after Poland voted to kick out every left-wing member of it’s national parliament, ordinary Poles have again shown the spirit which led them to elect the nationalist conservative Law and Justice party, with football fans unveiling an over-sized anti-migration banner at Sunday’s match.
The hand-painted sheet, which is estimated to have been at least 50 feet tall and 75 feet wide depicts boatloads of migrants preparing to land on the southern shore of Europe. Many of the boat’s crews make the one fingered ‘ISIS salute’.
The banner is unfurled / Paweł Kot / Facebook
Defending Europe while clutching a sword and a shield showing the crest of the Silesian Wrocław football club, a St. George’s cross-wearing crusader stands ready to fight the migrants, below writing which reads “While Europe Is Flooded With An Islamic Plague”.
Underneath, another 100 foot wide banner hangs from the stalls behind the goal and reads, in a traditional Polish script: “Let Us Stand In Defence Of Christianity”.
Flares are lit at the Miejski Wrocław stadium / Paweł Kot / Facebook
Wrocław football club has one of the largest supporter bases in Poland, and the most politically active. Banners with strong anti-Communist messages are commonly seen at their games – and the fans like to get involved.
As well as football scarves which split space between the crests of the team, Poland, and anti-Islam symbols, banners seen at past matches have also condoned violence towards supporters of left-wing political views.
Young Wrocław football club supporters wear their political beliefs with pride / Paweł Kot / Facebook
Wrocław maintains a strong friendship with Legia Warsaw, another politically active football team.
Legida ‘Jihad’ banner displayed during the 2012 football season
Legia has been fined on a number of occasions by football governing body UEFA over supposed racism at matches, and has displayed banners mocking Islamic jihad.
There is a lot of manufactured so called outrage being reported on including reference to fans be among those outraged. The fans at the game sitting under the banner didn’t look outraged at all though.
Damnit maybe I’ll move to Poland after all!
I wonder how many fans were interviewed until they found some drop kick who was willing to display the “correct amount of outrage”?