Al-Azhar Observatory for Combating Extremism (AOCE) expresses its solidarity with the Egyptian football player, Mustafa Mohamed, who has been fined by his French Football Club, Nantes, for refusing to participate in a campaign to support homosexuality. In addition to supporting Mohamed, AOCE expressed its support for other Ligue 1 Muslim players who refused to represent their clubs with rainbow-themed shirts in France, like Morocco’s Zakaria Aboukhlal, Algeria’s Farès Chaïbi, Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Said Hamulić, and Mali’s Moussa Diarra, all four play for French club, Toulouse.
AOCE confirms that the sports sectors in the world, like all other sectors, have fallen within the reach of proponents of these immoral notions and conduct, taking over sports premises and other platforms as a bridge to promote their intellectual poison under the cover of freedom, diversity and support for the different other, even if this difference contradicts human natural instincts and religious dictates.
Here, AOCE points to a clear contradiction among such proponents. While they demand application of the principles of freedom and respect for diversity, they seek to force those opponents of such ideas to accept that which goes against their religious beliefs, or else to suffer moral and material penalties.
That is why AOCE calls for providing a sports environment that respects the natural human instinct and the religious beliefs of players, and not to use sports premises as a platform for implementing malicious goals. These goals shall only produce misery and extinction for humanity.
Nantes, which is battling to avoid relegation, announced the imposition of a fine on its player, Mohamed, after his refusal to wear a rainbow-adorned shirt in a campaign led by the French Ligue 1 to support the so-called "LGBT community".