I'm confused now with all of this stuff ...

... and don't mind admitting it.

All day, and this evening, I've seen the news talking about the Olympics and featuring Mohamed Karim Sbihi MBE. Now, I have to admit, I had no idea who the bloke was and why he was awarded the MBE.

Apparently the MBE was for 'services to rowing' which I assume actually means 'rowing because he enjoys rowing'. Being born to a middle class family with an English mother, in Kingston on Thames, how could he not like rowing.

But what's really confused me is that they're making a massive deal out of him being, dramatic pause, ...

... the first British Muslim flag bearer!!!

Wow, how absolutely incredible that someone's religious beliefs should be so massively significant. As a church going Methodist I wonder if the BBC would make such a massive deal if it had been me ...

... or would they be so triumphant if he was a Jehovahs Witness or Mormon.

The bloke is British ffs, hence he represents Britain ...

... why bring religion into sport at all.

 

i heard the news and wondered why the fuss...then i wondered, did he deserve it or did he get it just so 'we' can prove we are a country for everyone.

i guess unless you are into the rowing brigade his name will mean nowt and as you well know, some people get these 'awards' because of their status in society while real people who do a lot of good lose out.

...but, and this is what gets me, had someone made 'a thing' about him being muslim then he/she would be slammed as racist, but the fact that the news can make a big thing about it and it needs celebrating then that tells people all they need to know.

PS: before the usual feckwits jump in, i honestly do not care about colour or religion or anything else, if a person deserves it then they deserve it and their background should not need to come into it.

 

It's because you've all been forced into thinking that you must look past colour, religion, culture because it doesn't matter and we're all equal, then like you said, the media can't stop pointing it out.

 

And that's the conundrum that proves the idiocy in it all.

Highlight a 'winner' as a Muslim = equality...

... highlight a murderer as a Muslim = racism.

 

I think this thread proves the opposite, don't you?

 

It's not always successful. However the schools, governments and entertainment industries are infiltrated

Ps I should've put "we've" instead of "you've" in my original comment

 

May as well make this the disinformation thread

 

I hope this is a wind-up

 

Turns out he's also a Finance Manager of a company that benefited from £96 million worth of funding recently

 

What's the craic here?

 

Unbelievable Jeff

 

This past year, the massive FM company that I worked for have had
Women’s day
LGBT Day
Veterans Day
Disabilities Day
Minorities Day
And our former MD won the Asian Businesswoman on the year award a few years ago

I didn’t qualify for any of the ****ers

 

Did you wear ladies panties, under your trousers, to feel included ....

 

I walked with my hand on my hip and still never got recognised.

 

YOU FORGOT THE Q IN LGBTQ2IA+ (yes I'm not making it up) YOU HOMOPHOBE!!!!!!

 

BBC broadcasting a young man in a bed who apparently has coronavirus and urges people his age to get the jab.

But of course its all bull

 

Do we know it's definitely all bullshit? Or is someone just stirring ****?

I can't really find much about it online so I don't really know what to believe.

 

Surely, apart from the Chinese, we're all minorities ...

... are you Chinese?

 

Have you seen my username ?

 

Well it is twitter, so take with a pinch of salt and do your own research but yeah, it looks like another setup by the beeb