Celtic FC announced at the end of August that Celtic Park would once again host the UK Asian Football Championships 2009, which takes place today. The club has supported the event for 11 years and its aim is to promote cultural understanding community wide, as well as providing the chance for young Asian football talent to showcase their skills. However it seems that some are not too happy with Celtic helping the UK Asian community or the event. The Right wing fascist BNP group has launched an attack on Celtic for backing the event and the competition itself, stating that it is a segregated competition and bans indigenous British people from the competition, this it is racist.We have published their article in full and unedited below:
'It will come as no surprise to readers of this website that the officially-endorsed “UK Asian Football Championships” is about to kick off on 6 September — yet any mention of football championships for indigenous British people would be dismissed as ‘racist’.Our message to the BNP and the racist scum that follow them:
According to a press release issued by Celtic Football Club, they are “delighted to once again host the UK Asian Football Championships 2009.”
The final at Celtic Park on 6 September will be the 11th consecutive year the club has supported the event, the press release continued.
“With representation from throughout the UK, the tournament runs over three days, with the final taking place at Celtic Park.”
Apparently the aim of the event is to “promote cultural understanding community wide,” according to the statement. The question remains, of course, if an “indigenous British football championship” would also be viewed as promoting cultural understanding. It seems unlikely.
The CFC press release then inadvertently reveals the real reason for the existence of this whites-not-allowed organisation: it provides “the chance for young Asian football talent to showcase their skills in front of a Celtic Park audience.”
And there one has it. The real reason for the existence of an Asian Football Championship is to give young Asians an advantage over young indigenous British youth in football by creating a special channel from which whites are specifically excluded.
Those who are surprised to hear of the existence of this organisation dedicated solely to not having whites play football with them, will be even more astonished to learn that the UK Asian Football Championships is in its eleventh consecutive year.
Dilwar Singh from the astonishingly-named “Scottish Ethnic Minorities Sports Association” (SEMSA), delighted in adding this charming ending to the CFC release: “The UK Asian Football Championships, now in its 11th consecutive year continues to go from strength to strength and enables all members of Asian and minority communities to participate in an event that aims to promote positive community relations in the UK.”
According to its website, SEMSA was “established in 1990 to create and provide culturally sensitive sporting opportunities to the Black and Ethnic Minority (BME) communities in Glasgow.”
It is not only CFC which has played host to the UK Asian Football Championships. Rangers FC hosted the finals for this whites-not-welcome championship in partnership with Glasgow City Council and the Scottish government’s Culture and Sport Glasgow.
According to RFC, this is the fourth occasion they have hosted the competition, which they described as the “UK’s number one sporting event for the Asian community.”
Anyone want to ask CFC or RFC if they are interested in sponsoring a championship for indigenous British people only?'
Scotzine
6 comments:
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Feck the haters
hi. can you edit the article please there is an error in it- Third paragraph from the bottom it meant to say Rangers FC not Scotlands Shame. Was sent in to the Scotzine site like that but should have been Rangers which is in the original article.
'hi. can you edit the article please there is an error in it- Third paragraph from the bottom it meant to say Rangers FC not Scotlands Shame. Was sent in to the Scotzine site like that but should have been Rangers which is in the original article.'
No probs. Thanks for pointing it out.
No doubt the BNP are similarly going to denounce Rangers FC's policy of not signing indigenous British Catholics for decades and decades, from the club's inception right up to not too long ago, as well as Rangers' fans ongoing sectarianism towards indigenous British Catholics. Or are they?
Are we not allowed to attack the BNP back on the basis of their whites only family weekend activities, where they go paint baling, canoeing and the such like?
I would also like to personally track some the BNP's hierarchy to their "indigenous British past" because I bet a tenner they don't have one :)
Please Denise/John/Ketlan can you publicise the following anti-racist petition: -
http://www.gopetition.co.uk/petitions/open-letter-to-doncaster-mayor-peter-davies.html
Cheers :)
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