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Read this on Andrew Bolt's blog. Click the link at the bottom to read it all.
No surprise, sadly, but it didn’t take long for the white-Christian-race card to be played against umpire Darrell Hair. Here’s the latest from Tariq A. Al-Maeena, a columnist for the Arab News:
Why is the ICC not addressing Hair’s obvious biases? Is it because he is a white Australian currently carrying an English passport? Or are they trying to tell the rest of us that such feelings do not exist in the sports of cricket? We have witnessed Australians using racial slurs against Asian and South African teams. We know of incidents of racism during Australian matches with the West Indies. And no column material from ex-Australian cricketers sympathetic to Hair would convince the world otherwise. There’s no question about it. There is an obvious undercurrent of racism and racial profiling here, an issue very sensitive among the members of the Pakistani team. Coming into London when some English citizens of Pakistani origin were being charged with trying to blow up aircraft heading to the US must have sensitized them even further.
Too easy, really. When you’ve got form for using this excuse to forgive terrorists who blow up children, it’s a doddle to use it against an umpire who catches Muslim cricketers cheating.
To remind you of Al-Maeena’s previous work:
But Mr. Bush, I shall not cross over that line to your side or to your belligerent and politically distorted principles. And if that makes me the Al-Qaeda, the Red Brigade or the IRA or any other terrorist group you would like to conveniently label up, then so be it!
Link to Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog
I'm not quite sure what the problem Bolt has with Al-Maeena's 'previous work' - he's stating he doesn't support Bush's rhetoric, and that by Bush's logic, that would make him a terrorist.
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Also, you might want to acknowledge at the start this was taken from Bolt's blog - I didn't realise until I clicked the link at the end.
the racism is coming for the pakistani team. Why are they not criticising the other umpire.... in their attempts to gloss over their being caught cheating.... again..... could it be that Billy Doctrove because he is black? and it wouldn't fit their feeding cheap headlines to lazy journalists.
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