Sigh:FC Barcelona shirts sold in Saudi Arabia have had their club emblems altered to exclude the St George's Cross, the municipal flag of the Spanish city, according to reports in La Vanguardia newspaper.
The alterations have supposedly been made due to a fear of offending Muslims through the cross' connotation to the Crusades during the 12th and 13th centuries when English soldiers adopted the St George's Cross as they attempted to recapture Jerusalem and the Holy Land from Muslim rule.
The alterations have supposedly been made due to a fear of offending Muslims through the cross' connotation to the Crusades during the 12th and 13th centuries when English soldiers adopted the St George's Cross as they attempted to recapture Jerusalem and the Holy Land from Muslim rule.
Pretty easy to offend, those Muslims, according to this.
ReplyDeleteI can only sigh with you on this one.
ReplyDeleteActually, as I found while blogging about it here, the Milanese cross is the Cross of St Ambrose. But why let the facts get in the way of taking offence?
ReplyDeleteJMB and Welshcakes - yes.
ReplyDeleteSecret person - thanks for that. Agreed.
(Isn't that an Inter shirt)
ReplyDeleteActually retail is retail - I doubt Argentina shirts sold well over here in the early eighties...
Car manufacturers often change model names because they are too close to a rude or uncool word in the native language of a launch country. If they want the Saudi dollar... they'll drop the cross.