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Last Updated: March 27, 2024, 00:01 IST
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Germany defender Antonio Rüdiger and the German soccer federation are taking authorized motion towards a disgraced former tabloid editor for suggesting the participant’s Ramadan greeting was a present of assist for terrorist group Islamic State.
BERLIN: Germany defender Antonio Rüdiger and the German soccer federation are taking authorized motion towards a disgraced former tabloid editor for suggesting the participant’s Ramadan greeting was a present of assist for terrorist group Islamic State.
Rüdiger, a working towards Muslim, posted on Instagram a photograph of himself in a white gown kneeling on a prayer mat whereas pointing upward together with his proper index finger.
“Ramadan Mubarak to all Muslims around the world. May the almighty accept our fasting and prayers. #AlwaysBelieve,” the Real Madrid participant wrote.
Former Bild chief editor Julian Reichelt responded on X, previously Twitter, with a collection of posts accusing the participant of “Islamism” and of exhibiting the “ISIS-greeting of Islamists,” utilizing one other time period to discuss with Islamic State.
Reichelt nonetheless enjoys a big following on social media regardless of being fired from Bild in 2021 amid allegations of bullying and abuse of feminine workers on the tabloid. He has since arrange his personal on-line media begin-up, the place he additionally accused Rüdiger of exhibiting “the Islamist greeting that the whole world has known since ISIS terrorists’ horror.”
The German soccer federation on Tuesday instructed The Associated Press that it initiated authorized proceedings towards Reichelt, whom it accused of on-line hate speech.
Rüdiger’s administration additionally made a grievance on behalf of the participant. News company dpa reported the grievance charged Reichelt with insult or slander, inflammatory insult and sedition. The participant himself didn’t wish to touch upon the matter.
Responding to dpa, Germany’s Federal Ministry of the Interior stated of Rüdiger’s gesture: “The so-called ‘tawhid’ finger is considered a symbol of the unity and uniqueness of God in Islam. The gesture is common among Muslims all over the world.”
The ministry stated the gesture must be not be categorised as problematic.
“This applies regardless of the fact that Islamist groups appropriate this symbol and misuse it for their own purposes,” the ministry stated.
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