The Zidane story discussed here won't go away. Le Monde is reporting that Zizou will talk in a few days time when he has had time to cool down. All the publicist so far said is that Zidane said that the retaliation was for a really eggregious comment. Maybe some of our french speaking readers find the story and make it available. All I know is that if Zidane thinks its egregious, then we should support him. Two independent newsources, AP and a Russian source I can't pronounce, and one French agency, Paris-based anti-racism advocacy group SOS-Racism, have concurred on "dirty terrorist." Man, this is like hadith-sciences.
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My French is still pretty okay, so if someone does find a transcript of the alleged remark, send it my way.
actually
i intentionally made that comment directed towards you hoping that you'd go into the french internet and or blogosphere and find US something =)
Hee! Yeah okay.
Here it is in English from the Independent:
http://sport.independent.co.uk/football/internationals/article1171388.ece
He called Zidane's sister a prostitute.
But the BBC has hired a lip reader (no kidding) who came up with this translation:
"BBC Radio Five Live asked for help from a deaf lip reader, Jessica Rees, who read the words phonetically to an Italian translator.
She deciphered the insult as being "you're the son of a terrorist whore" - a translation also carried by many national newspapers in Britain on Tuesday."
what is all the fuss about a little head-butt?
i think this is a great final image of zidane.
zidane as battering ram!
So, its OK to head butt someone for words, words that weren't even racist: "dirty terrorist". I mean, I thought people condemn violence, but I suppose its only in some contexts, like depending on who does it and how righteous we deem it?
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...or even a foul unsportsmanlike comment about his mother? Its not racist: Racist would be: "you Arab XYZ!". But, would calling him, "You French XYZ!" be racist? Or, is racism only *towards* the brown and the black?
For full disclosure, I'm Italian, but I'm totally impartial on this matter, ;-)
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