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Real remove cross from emblem to please Muslims

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Published: 09 April, 2012, 17:14

Real's old (L) and new logo

TAGS: Religion, EU, Football

Spanish football giants, Real Madrid, have decided to make changes to the club’s logo, getting rid of the cross, which was present on the emblem for nearly a century.

­The rebranding was needed in order to strengthen Real’s popularity among Muslim football lovers in Europe and the Middle East.

The Spanish Marca newspaper is citing a source in the club’s administration as saying that the move is aimed at “avoiding all forms of misunderstanding and conflict in the regions where the majority of the population is Muslim”.

The removal of the cross coincides with Real Madrid beginning the construction of a $1 billion sports tourist resort in the United Arab Emirates, which will be the world’s first theme park on an artificial island to combine tourism and sports.

The Christian symbol appeared on Real Madrid’s emblem back in 1920 when King Alfonso XIII granted his royal patronage to the club.

By changing the emblem, the Los Blancos followed in the footsteps of their archrivals from Barcelona, who also had to part with a cross on their logo to please their sponsors from Qatar.

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26 COMMENTS

Utoy April 10, 2012, 10:11

its obvious money is the real reason why they are changing/removing the cross from the logo! such a shame,

reality April 10, 2012, 06:58

alot of idiots on here with stupid racist comments. Im not a muslim, but i know muslims rather live in their own country then europe the only reasone they have migrated to europe over past decades is because your governments are slaughtering muslim people in middle east and africa and looting their recources which would normally be allocated to the people so they can live a better life there, so their forced to move somewhere els so they can live where bombs made by european/Us governments dropping on their heads. If you have a problem with muslims in europe then get all your people togethor make a reveloution, put a government who will not support war so these people can go back to their countries and stop migrating, then whoever wants can go to holidays whereever they want in the world. at the end of the day we share the planet and recourses and no one really owns earth or any part of it so no one has the right to tell anyone what to wear or not to wear or where people can go and live

MikeNZ April 10, 2012, 06:33

Muslims can please me by either leaving Europe or being rounded up into Concentration camps!

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