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<blockquote data-quote="Tejwant Singh" data-source="post: 182041" data-attributes="member: 138"><p>Rory ji,</p><p></p><p><span style="color: Black">Guru Fateh.</span></p><p><span style="color: Black"></span></p><p><span style="color: Black">For you it may be pointless which is understandable but it is a big thing for me and also for many others I have talked to. Brasil is the largest Catholic country in the world and it is the Mecca of soccer. No pun intended.</span></p><p><span style="color: Black"></span></p><p><span style="color: Black">First a bit of back ground, I lived in Brasil from 1975 to 1985. When I lived there, there were no Muslims living there except I met some from Bradford who were working for the multinationals. With the result there was no mosque there either.</span></p><p><span style="color: Black"></span></p><p><span style="color: Black">There were lots of people from the Middle East descent though, mainly from Lebanon and Syria, and they still are, but most of them are Christians or Jews. In fact we had the Governor of the State of São Paulo, the richest state in South America by the name of Paulo Maluf, a Christian of the Middle Eastern descent.</span></p><p><span style="color: Black"></span></p><p><span style="color: Black">You also may have heard of Edmund Safra a billionaire banker who was murdered by his butler who started some fire in the heavily secure apartment in Monaco in 1999. He was a Brasilian from Lebanese-Jewish descent. The brothers owned The Republic Bank of New York which got into problem with the Feds for money laundering. Banco Safra in Brasil is one of the largest banks owned by the Safra brothers.</span></p><p><span style="color: Black"></span></p><p><span style="color: Black">The Muslims started coming to the Tri-border city in the late 80’s which was called Puerto Stroessner, now called- Ciudad del Este-, originally named after Gen. Alfredo Stroessner, the Paraguayan despot whose 35-year reign marked an uninterrupted period of repression in his country, which became a haven for Nazi war criminals, deposed dictators and smugglers. He was forced out in 1989 by the military and was sent to Brasil in exile where he eventually died in 2006.</span></p><p><span style="color: Black"></span></p><p><span style="color: Black">Puerto Stroessner borders Brasil, Argentina and Paraguay, hence called the Tri-border City. It is a duty free port and is the smuggling haven for drugs and especially for electronics to Brasil at that time because of very high custom duties on goods. The Muslims came and set up electronics shops there. </span></p><p><span style="color: Black"></span></p><p><span style="color: Black">The city also became the gateway for Hezbollah which bombed the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires in 1992. Many mosques opened in the southern part of Brasil, in Argentina and Paraguay because of this influx. It was easy to get “the Green Card” for Paraguay.</span></p><p><span style="color: Black"></span></p><p><span style="color: Black">My only aim to explain this to you is for you to have a bit of history and the culture and why it is surprising for many including myself for Brasil to have a “Sharia” based soccer team. This shows how Brasil is very tolerant and accepting. </span></p><p><span style="color: Black"></span></p><p><span style="color: Black">You know very well that there are many Muslim owners of the European Soccer teams including the UK, France, Italy and others. None of these owners tried to create or can create a Muslim soccer team in Europe. In fact there is a lot of racism in the European soccer world. Recently, a Greek soccer player was shown with a Nazi salute after the game.</span></p><p><span style="color: Black"></span></p><p><span style="color: Black">Having a Muslim soccer team in the Mecca of Soccer is a shameless flaunting of arrogance and disrespect to the country and its cultural richness of openness in my opinion. It is not an all-inclusive gesture the way the Brasilian culture is where the pre-slavery black culture is still celebrated. In fact, many African Americans go to the North Eastern State of Bahia to re-introduce themselves to their African roots.</span></p><p><span style="color: Black"></span></p><p><span style="color: Black">And, one more thing, the Al Shabab wants to play in São José dos Campos,a city named after the Catholic Saint which is a stone's throw from another famous Catholic City called Aparecida. It is home to and named after the Basilica of the National Shrine of Our Lady of Aparecida, the patron saint of Brasil, declared so by Pope Pius XI in 1929. Both Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI delivered speeches there during their trips to Brasil. It is a pilgrim haven for the Catholics from around the world. Aparecida receives more than 7 million tourists a year making it the most popular religious pilgrimage site in Latin America. These pilgrims come to visit the Basilica containing the statue of Our Lady of Aparecida.</span></p><p><span style="color: Black"></span></p><p><span style="color: Black">Let’s see how it “plays out”. My whole point of explaining the cultural and historical aspects of this country are for you to have inkling how deeply rooted it is in Catholicism,yet open to all. I was raised in The UK myself and I know what racism is like. In Brasil, I was treated like one of them even better because of my turban.</span></p><p><span style="color: Black"></span></p><p><span style="color: Black">So, in my opinion it is an encroachment from the cultural and religious view point by manufacturing an all Muslim soccer team in the most tolerant country in the world where Soccer itself is the religion. It may not matter to you and understandably you do not see any point in this at all but it matters to me and I am a Sikh.</span></p><p><span style="color: Black"></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tejwant Singh, post: 182041, member: 138"] Rory ji, [COLOR="Black"]Guru Fateh. For you it may be pointless which is understandable but it is a big thing for me and also for many others I have talked to. Brasil is the largest Catholic country in the world and it is the Mecca of soccer. No pun intended. First a bit of back ground, I lived in Brasil from 1975 to 1985. When I lived there, there were no Muslims living there except I met some from Bradford who were working for the multinationals. With the result there was no mosque there either. There were lots of people from the Middle East descent though, mainly from Lebanon and Syria, and they still are, but most of them are Christians or Jews. In fact we had the Governor of the State of São Paulo, the richest state in South America by the name of Paulo Maluf, a Christian of the Middle Eastern descent. You also may have heard of Edmund Safra a billionaire banker who was murdered by his butler who started some fire in the heavily secure apartment in Monaco in 1999. He was a Brasilian from Lebanese-Jewish descent. The brothers owned The Republic Bank of New York which got into problem with the Feds for money laundering. Banco Safra in Brasil is one of the largest banks owned by the Safra brothers. The Muslims started coming to the Tri-border city in the late 80’s which was called Puerto Stroessner, now called- Ciudad del Este-, originally named after Gen. Alfredo Stroessner, the Paraguayan despot whose 35-year reign marked an uninterrupted period of repression in his country, which became a haven for Nazi war criminals, deposed dictators and smugglers. He was forced out in 1989 by the military and was sent to Brasil in exile where he eventually died in 2006. Puerto Stroessner borders Brasil, Argentina and Paraguay, hence called the Tri-border City. It is a duty free port and is the smuggling haven for drugs and especially for electronics to Brasil at that time because of very high custom duties on goods. The Muslims came and set up electronics shops there. The city also became the gateway for Hezbollah which bombed the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires in 1992. Many mosques opened in the southern part of Brasil, in Argentina and Paraguay because of this influx. It was easy to get “the Green Card” for Paraguay. My only aim to explain this to you is for you to have a bit of history and the culture and why it is surprising for many including myself for Brasil to have a “Sharia” based soccer team. This shows how Brasil is very tolerant and accepting. You know very well that there are many Muslim owners of the European Soccer teams including the UK, France, Italy and others. None of these owners tried to create or can create a Muslim soccer team in Europe. In fact there is a lot of racism in the European soccer world. Recently, a Greek soccer player was shown with a Nazi salute after the game. Having a Muslim soccer team in the Mecca of Soccer is a shameless flaunting of arrogance and disrespect to the country and its cultural richness of openness in my opinion. It is not an all-inclusive gesture the way the Brasilian culture is where the pre-slavery black culture is still celebrated. In fact, many African Americans go to the North Eastern State of Bahia to re-introduce themselves to their African roots. And, one more thing, the Al Shabab wants to play in São José dos Campos,a city named after the Catholic Saint which is a stone's throw from another famous Catholic City called Aparecida. It is home to and named after the Basilica of the National Shrine of Our Lady of Aparecida, the patron saint of Brasil, declared so by Pope Pius XI in 1929. Both Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI delivered speeches there during their trips to Brasil. It is a pilgrim haven for the Catholics from around the world. Aparecida receives more than 7 million tourists a year making it the most popular religious pilgrimage site in Latin America. These pilgrims come to visit the Basilica containing the statue of Our Lady of Aparecida. Let’s see how it “plays out”. My whole point of explaining the cultural and historical aspects of this country are for you to have inkling how deeply rooted it is in Catholicism,yet open to all. I was raised in The UK myself and I know what racism is like. In Brasil, I was treated like one of them even better because of my turban. So, in my opinion it is an encroachment from the cultural and religious view point by manufacturing an all Muslim soccer team in the most tolerant country in the world where Soccer itself is the religion. It may not matter to you and understandably you do not see any point in this at all but it matters to me and I am a Sikh. [/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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