Barcelona Shirt Deal In Limbo After Qatari Charity Linked With Terrorist Group

Chris Wright

21st, December 2010

20 Comments

By Chris Wright

Reports emanating from Israel (namely the Ma’ariv newspaper) are claiming that Barcelona’s historic shirt sponsorship deal with the Qatar Foundation is in jeopardy as the Arab organisation have been accused of forging direct links with Islamic (and, for the record, Palestinian)  terrorist group Hamas.

Ma’ariv are reporting that Israeli diplomats have been flown out to Catalonia with the express intent of trying to persuade Barca into backing out of the five-year, €150 million deal they signed just a fortnight ago.

Spanish paper El Mundo have also concerned themselves, speculating that the Qatar Foundation may have donated large sums of money to conker-box scholar Yusuf al Qaradawi – a hard-line Egyptian Muslim scholar and staunch advocate of religious segregation, ‘light’ domestic violence, female circumcision and flagrant anti-Semitism.

Sounds like a cauldron full of horse-sh*t being slowly stirred to me, but we’ll keep you posted.

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20 Comments

  1. Montesquieu says:

    I’m honestly not surprised that their are terror links. The Charities of Saudi Arabia also have links to terror groups across the Middle East.

  2. oneword says:

    drop a couple h-bombs over the middle east and then the world will have everlasting peace

  3. jamo says:

    @oneoword : in four words mate, You are an idiot.

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  5. nuaimat says:

    Hamas are not terrorists. Israelis are terrorists! go watch the “unfiltered” news you idiots. israel killing innocent childs daily. and has setup a blockade over Gaza (where hamas lives) for at least 4 years. even existence of Israel in the middle east was an idiot solution by British to solve their own problems with Zionists.

  6. Zane says:

    Sounds like Israeli propaganda to me

  7. JJ says:

    Saw that article in Ma’ariv here…. but later a foreign ministry official (who was named, so it wasn’t made up) said that Israel was not involved and that this foundation was clean …. something that I am surprised of, thinking the same as what @Montesquieu wrote… I just hope Barca checked themselves on this… it could (not literally) blow up in their faces… something that would hurt the club. I can see Madrid hiring investigators already… and maybe not just them!

  8. palestinian says:

    bullsh!t!!!
    for israel, every arab is a terrorist even christian arab!!!
    so no matter which fund or organization will be on barca or any other team shirts, if it’s ana arab, it’s “linked to terror”, why? because israel hates all arabs and considers all arab countries as it’s enemies and that they are terrorists, while israel cries “anti-Semitism” when someone across the world calls to boycott a product produced in the palestinian occupied territories it’s time that israel stop sticking it’s nose in everyone’s business under the excuse of “fighting terrorism”

  9. Lunga says:

    Does that mean the 2022 World Cup is also in limbo?

  10. me says:

    Arabs are very kind people .. unfortunatly the media shows the opposite !
    after the 2022 WC and barca’s shirt .. people will probably realise that arabs are nice !

  11. bt says:

    I don’t care if this is Israeli propaganda.
    If Israeli propaganda is what it takes for Barcelona to not wear that piece of sh*t football kit, then so be it.

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  13. Roger says:

    The end of the world will at the Quatar WC! Great! way to go FIFA hope all that oil money buys you happiness till then. And the US will win the world CUP LOL.

  14. cule says:

    you better know exactly what you are writing! are you even know what’s happening in asia that you called Hamas terrorists?! I’m sorry for you.

  15. Montesquieu says:

    cule, learn how to write in English you ‘tarding moron.

    Hamas are terrorists, period.

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  17. Ted says:

    Hamas are the democratically elected rulers of Palestine, the country that Israel has stolen and commits terrorism and war crimes against every day. I’ll be buying one of the new shirts tomorrow.

  18. zd says:

    i swear to god that half of the people here are complete idiots… i feel sorry for you guyz cause you dont know shit, try to watch the news we watch here that is not filtered…. then you would find out who is the real terrorist.

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