Fawad Ahmed, a recent arrival from Pakistan and recently picked to represent Australia on the ''VB Tour of England'' refuses to wear the VB logo on “religious grounds.”

He will however take the money for his efforts put towards the ''VB Tour of England.”
It is an Australian sports TEAM sponsored by an Australian brand icon, but he is not part of it by his own calculated actions. Kick this zealot out of the team. He is hypocritical and attempting to bring religion into Australian sport is despicable.

Caveat:
New Zealand “christian” test cricketer Bruce Murray would not play cricket on Sundays for religious reasons. I would have kicked him off the team as well.

You are too late.

<HAVING succeeded in convincing the AFL to introduce prayer rooms at all venues, Bachar Houli was unfazed last night by a stinging backlash sparked by former Victorian premier Jeff Kennett, who called the idea "stupid" and "political correctness gone mad".

Football fans took to websites to condemn and ridicule the move, but at his home in Melbourne the AFL's first Muslim player told The Australian: "The main thing is we've got what we want, and you can't change that.

"At the end of the day, people want to go and enjoy the footy as well as continue with their beliefs, and if it means they have to pray once a day at the footy, we're not asking for much."

Mr Kennett said the move was "ridiculous" and complained that political correctness had replaced "the great days" of football

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Describing Australia as "a Christian society of many faiths", the former Liberal premier and former Hawthorn club president said communities should not have to change their "very fibre" to accommodate multiculturalism.

"To put prayer rooms into sporting venues is not part of the Australian lexicon, it's not the way in which we've behaved," he said.

"I think it's an overreaction, I think it's political correctness, I think it's absolute rubbish. It's not practical, it's stupid, it's political correctness gone mad."

Houli, who plays at Richmond, where he prays before and after games, pressed for prayer rooms to be introduced at grounds in his capacity as the league's multicultural ambassador>

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/jeff-kennett-decries-prayer-rooms-at-footy/story-e6frg6nf-1226333759496

It is nonsense that prayer rooms would appreciably increase crowd attendance through the religious 'sensitivity' enacted.

Just some of the ways government spends taxpayers money - in funding special groups to have a direct line to the minister. One wonders how many changes are quietly made that do not receive publicity.

The question here is, How far do we go to accommodate other cultures?

If a sportsman is not prepared to wear the team sponsors logo, should he be allowed on the team? Where do we draw the line.

We do not allow bullfighting or cockfighting and certain foods are not allowed, e.g. consumption of dog meat. Other foods may not be illegal but would not be acceptable, e.g. human placenta, whale meat or dolphin meat. Horse meat was available at a butcher in Perth.

On the other hand, we turn a blind eye to FGM and forced marriages as there have been no prosecutions as yet.

Should we allow more cultural practices that we currently shun.

Carrying a knife is against the law unless you are a Sikh and you may also be exempt from a cycle helmet if you wear a turban.

Every time we bend to accommodate some other cultural practice, we compromise our own culture.

and yet in Britian the secularist froth at the mouth if a nurse wears a cross. no doubt double standards.

There are many instances where our secular State and laws are being compromised through concessions to multiculturalism, or when other activist groups prevail.

Bigamy is illegal, but not only can some be recognised by government for their several wives (multiculturalism at work), but the same 'Progressives' who allowed that to occur also re-jigged family law to make bigamy legal in practice by recognising 'de facto' claims against a person who is already married. The unfortunate wife and dependents of a husband who has affairs could suffer claims against the husband's (and family's) assets and income to the detriment of the marriage and family.

The problem isn't so much that ethnic activists and others make demand on government to accommodate their culture and traditions and hopefully to win taxpayer-funded benefits, but that the culturally cringing political 'Progressives' are encouraging, facilitating and funding it to occur.

Election day 2013: time to put out the rubbish in Canberra.

runner,

You are right to criticise. However it is probably more down to the left 'Progressives' than secularists.

Although there are many vocal Progressives among secularists who seem to hate Christianity with a passion, while remaining singularly silent and forgiving where Islam is concerned.