Manchester United dropped an LGBT rainbow jacket that the team was planning to wear on Sunday after a Muslim star player refused to wear it, in the third LGBT Pride controversy to hit the Premier League this week. The Mail has more.
Manchester United have been plunged into chaos after a devout Muslim star player refused to wear a rainbow jacket to show support for the LGBTQ+ community – leaving his teammates divided.
Red Devils players have previously worn a Pride-themed jersey to warm up ahead of games, over the past two years, to show support for the LGBTQ+ community as part of the Rainbow Laces campaign.
And the club planned to walk-out in a rainbow jacket prior to their clash against Everton on Sunday only for Moroccan star Noussair Mazraoui to refuse, the Athletic has now reported.
The outlet claims that Mazraoui, who is a devout Muslim, told his colleagues that he would not be wearing the jacket and cited his religious faith as his reasoning.
United decided that no player would wear the tracksuit, so Mazraoui would not be singled out publicly – with the decision reportedly just taken hours before kick-off on Sunday.
His move comes after England and Crystal Palace defender Marc Guehi defied a Football Association reprimand by writing a religious message on his rainbow-coloured captain’s armband last night – and Ipswich Town skipper Sam Morsy has now twice refused to wear the rainbow armband. …
In a statement today, Manchester United said the club “welcomes fans from all backgrounds, including members of the LGBTQ+ community”, adding: “We are strongly committed to the principles of diversity and inclusion.
“We demonstrate these principles through a range of activities, including support for our Rainbow Devils supporters’ club, and campaigns to celebrate our LGBTQ+ fans and combat all forms of discrimination.
“Players are entitled to hold their own individual opinions, particularly in relation to their faith, and these may sometimes differ from the club’s position.”
United’s LGBT fan group Rainbow Devils this morning issued a response, saying it was “disappointed” in the summer signing.
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Hard to argue with the common sense of John O’Looney here. I don’t get why there’s a ban on religious or political symbolism when clearly all things ‘Rainbow/Alphabet People’ absolutely falls into this category. It’s not a religion but gender ideology is undoubtedly a cult and it is also political. So if somebody can’t write ”I love Jesus” on an armband or wear a crucifix then that’s double standards, isn’t it, because they’re being forced to parade around wearing the symbols of a political ideology. This issue also came up at the Olympics. And might I add that the strip in that picture is just putrid. Anyway, mini clip of John sharing his opinion here;
https://x.com/OlooneyJohn/status/1864291253505978698
EDIT: Can I just ask, seeing as I don’t follow football, are there many gay or trans professional players anyway? Because I never seem to hear of any. Wouldn’t gay premiership players be vocal about supporting this? So when it comes to ”principles of diversity and inclusion”, is this only for fans ( who would surely attend to support their club anyway ) or is it including gay/trans players, where there seems to be a dearth?
Here you go Mogs…and he’s Dutch.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/darts/article-14061075/Who-Noa-Lynn-van-Leuven-transgender-darts-player.html
I am a big darts fan.
But where are all the gay/trans/non-binary etc premier league footballers? Do they even exist amongst the men? I know there’s some in the women’s footie…Perhaps they’re as rare as gay male rugby players, which doesn’t say a great deal about the authenticity of the whole “we embrace inclusivity and welcome the diversity of the Rainbow People”, does it, really? More proof it’s all just the woke brigade using the world’s most popular sport as a vehicle to promote their highly toxic ideology. Especially as kids idolise these players.
More brainwashing garbage. Unless you’re lucky enough to have a Trump-type leader in charge of your country none of this is going away;
https://x.com/ForeverScept/status/1864254792987476001
“In a statement today, Manchester United said the club “welcomes fans from all backgrounds, including members of the LGBTQ+ community”, adding: “We are strongly committed to the principles of diversity and inclusion.”
That is as much as is required. A statement such as this, if M U feel a statement on sexual proclivities is required at all, will suffice. Thereafter the club should STFU. I am no supporter of muslims but it would appear that they are the ones making a stand on this garbage, albeit I doubt I share their reasoning.
Aren’t we all sick to the back teeth of having minority interests thrust in our faces? When is there going to be a celebration of the bog standard hetero- normal?
Let’s not forget – Go woke, go broke Man U.
“In a statement today, Manchester United said the club “welcomes fans from all backgrounds, including members of the LGBTQ+ community”, adding: “We are strongly committed to the principles of diversity and inclusion.”
That is as much as is required. A statement such as this, if M U feel a statement on sexual proclivities is required at all, will suffice.
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I beg to differ. It’s pretty obvious that a company making money from selling tickets to shows it organizes will welcome anyone who’s willing to buy a ticket and behave himself in line with the expected standards for that during the event. But the people attending the event come there because of the event and not because they want to be force-informed about somehow ‘salacious’ details about the private lives of other people also attending the event.
Further, even assuming the MU management were so inclined despite it wouldn’t be in the best business interest of the club, they’d be legally prohibited from denying people entry just because of their sexual orientation.
It follows that the statement above is entirely unecessary insofar it relates to football. It’s basically identical to We welcome fans from all backgrounds, including those who rub mayonnaise onto each others genitals to lick it off prior to having intercourse. But as that’s not at all relevant for people attending football matches, Manchester United shouldn’t issue explicit statements about it.
I take your points RW and perhaps I should not show such leniency.
Isn’t it interesting that when a Muslim player refuses to comply ”for religious reasons” nothing’s said but would any other player get away with taking such a stance? Once again, they seem to get some special status and are appeased. This guy says much the same thing here. I don’t know what he’s referring to that some fan committed suicide over being accused of being racist though. I can’t see people, particularly men, ever going off football but I can see how people in general get sick to the back teeth of having this virtue-signalling, woke bollocks shoved in their faces everywhere they look, and you should be able to enjoy sport and support your team without this rainbow bilge messaging beamed at you all over the shop. And are idiot players still kneeling, subordinating themselves in front of others because they’ve basically zero self-respect? Cringetastic.
”If you are a straight White man, why are you still watching football?”
https://x.com/Homeland_Party/status/1864253945121542564
I am that exception! I was born in Liverpool and have loved following and watching Liverpool FC all my life. I enjoyed following and watching England also, as well as other home nations.
In recent years, I found the greed in football become more and more unpalatable, to the point where I resented their greed. Not through envy, simply through the unjustness of their vast wages for what they do.
Further, the cheating and diving that goes on in football eventually annoyed me so much that I found myself further put off football.
The final straw was The Knee. the sodding KNEE!! That was the end of it for me. I couldn’t bring myself to watch overpaid cheating sportsmen play a game I love, knowing that they had just been kneeling to some foul, corrupt, divisive Marxist organisation, like sheep lining up for their next Covid jab.
I haven’t watched a full match since. I’ve lost almost all interest. I still follow the results, but I have lost my love for football. After a wait of 23 years, I this year made it to the top of the waiting list for an Anfield season ticket. I declined thanks to that lost love. I didn’t care enough anymore to want to spend the money and time on a season ticket. I don’t think that love is coming back any time soon.
Spend it on a holiday while you still can, green blob and all!
Well, yes, at some point there will be a clash between the alphabet cult and Muslims.
The result will be vibrant but not necessary inclusive.
I would hazard a guess that at some point, when the Muslims become a significant and united political force, all of a sudden flaunting your rainbow credentials will stop being a politically expedient move.
Football needs to stay out of Political Messaging. —-As we see here, all people will not agree with every message. Muslims clearly don’t support this stuff, but many devout Christians don’t either. —–I suspect if this full back that plays for Manchester United was a Christian instead of a Muslim and refused to wear this jacket then he would not be given the same level of tolerance as the Muslim player is getting. —-STAY OT OF POLITICS AND PLAY FOOTBALL
yes it is a joke what people pay for the tickets. If I was a football fan I would always watch on the TV. their pay is inflated to obscene levels and would boycott a ticket on that matter, let alone all the Woke mind virus.
There has been a somewhat similar event in the Bundesliga (German equivalent of the premier league) recently where a player refused to sign a Pride!-shirt, stating “I don’t sign gay crap.” This saw an invasion of alphabet soup people to matches of the club holding posters with slogans like “We love gay crap!” (ie, “We’re gay and love feces!” for all practical purposes) and the player was obviously made to apologize in public.
But there’s, even in absence of a religious conviction, really absolutely nothing wrong with that: The Pride!-people are and ought to be free to pursue their political agenda with all legal means they deem suitable. But everybody else not only ought to be free to avoid endorsing but actually even opposing it in any legal way. People ought to be free to disagree about the value or desirableness of sexual practices in the exact same way they’re free to disagree about the value or desirableness of anything else. That someone sells (actual Facebook ad) a nutritional supplement called “Horny Goat Weed” doesn’t mean that I must be of the opinion that selling or buying it would be a good thing. I may stand next to his stall (assuming he has any) with a poster saying “Don’t buy this evil stuff!” and while this may harm his business, that’s just that: He’s free to convince people to buy it nevertheless.
The lgbt qwerty keyboard lot are making a political statement. Why should anyone have someone else’s inclinations thrust in their face, let alone be forced to celebrate them?
This is pure politics as a means of indoctrination and coercion and both the Muslim chap and the Christian one should not be forced to celebrate something they don’t believe in.
i would imagine forcing people to listen to their inane drivel and demanding that their lifestyle choices be openly celebrated or else; will just make things worse not better.
mermaids started all this, with a huge boost from the bbc showing films about making parents do as their child says.
Man United fans must be so proud of their team! How many fans support this woke BS?
Message to the Football Association:
Might have been a good idea to keep politics, “woke” nonsense and virtue-signalling OUT of professional football.
What’s the betting if a white, British male had dared to make this stand because he’s a devout Christian he would have been ostracised, “cancelled” and put on the transfer market?
Someone make a good point on the Radio; he said that the footballer who put Jesus Loves You on the armband shouldn’t have done that, he should’ve just not worn the band. By wearing and altering you are making a statement, but his religion is personal to him therefore not wearing anything would be better.,
In this context refusing to wear an armband is a statement too. There is no neutrality.
It should have been obvious to sports clubs and authorities that if you send out strong messages about sensitive issues you are making trouble for yourself because not all your members or supporters are going to agree with the message. Better, as others have said here, to make clear that you welcome all and leave it at that. Of course one of the problems so far as Man U is concerned is that it is in bed with that disgusting outfit Stonewall.