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Real Madrid Removes Cross From Logo To Avoid Offending Muslims
 The logo change was agreed to by the world's wealthiest sports team, valued at nearly $3.5 billion, in order to avoid offending Muslim sensibilities as the team and the bank enter a three-year dhimmitude "strategic alliance," according to Real Madrid President Florentino Perez.
I went to the page JFM cites in comment #1 below (thank you JFM!) and persuaded free translation.com to tell me what it says. The most recent change in the logo that is listed there says nothing about offense, Muslims, the purchase of the team, or of a bank. It also doesn't say exactly when the change occurred.
It's also very, very clear that THERE IS NO CROSS on the logo -- not now and NOT on the several logos used since the club's inception. Even in the original 1902 emblem there is no cross.
So unless the writer of the story has other evidence, the statements presented above appear to be false. Does anyone have more information?
Update at 1400 CT: thank you JFM for your further thoughts and correction. Dang, you really DO have to enlarge the emblem to see the tiny cross at the top. That's what this is all about? I could see removing the cross just in terms of making the design a little less fussy. |
Posted by: Crinegum Flaitle8411 2014-11-28 |
