Chapter 487: Countless Pressures
This is no joke.
Not long ago, the terrorist group released posters declaring war on Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo and the World Cup.
In that poster, Messi was trapped in a cage, bleeding and crying. Next to it it reads, "You are fighting against a kingdom where there is no word for failure in the dictionary." At the same time, another poster points to the Luzhniki Stadium in Russia, where the 2018 World Cup final will be held.
The poster caused panic when it was released, because Messi was going to play a friendly match against Russia at that stadium. Later, the Russian side had to stand up and make assurances that it would maintain the security of Messi and Argentina.
But the terrorist group did not stop, and later they released a poster. In this poster, Messi is executed and falls to the ground, while his friend Neymar kneels on his back and weeps bitterly, while terrorists stand behind them. The caption below: "You will not be safe unless you live in the kingdom of ***." β
Later, before the start of the World Cup, Ronaldo also received threats.
In the midst of the ruins, Ronaldo was tied with his hands tied and kneeling on the ground, although his hairstyle was not messy, Ronaldo's eyes were red and swollen, and his clothes were ragged. Masked ISIS members are armed with sharp knives and are preparing to "execute" Ronaldo. The poster reads the 2018 World Cup with the caption: "What we want to say is exactly what you see now, not what you hear." Wait and see, we're waiting for this moment too. β
These two posters about Messi and Ronaldo are dark and terrifying, which has attracted the attention of the world. Who is the author? Extremist group "Yisilan State (ISIS)".
Even the coach of the French national team, Didier Deschamps, has become the cover character of the ISIS poster trailer. Deschamps is known as "Allah's enemy", and in the PS poster, Deschamps is dressed in a prisoner's suit, his hands are cuffed, and the terrorist covers his face and holds a pistol to Deschamps' shoulder.
Anyway, in the World Cup in Russia, Messi, Deschamps, Neymar, and Ronaldo have all become the targets of the ISIS poster's terrorist attack. In fact, in less than eight months before the 2018 World Cup, football appeared frequently in ISIS posters, and the goal of terrorism was to create panic around the world.
Now, the World Cup is over, the panic continues, Wang Dalong has made a name for himself in the football world, and he has become one of the targets.
Of course, this is not the first time that ISIS has been involved in football, Messi, Ronaldo, Wang Dalong, and the World Cup. Looking back, there is really a lot of such history.
In the group stage of the 2014 World Cup, Argentina defeated Iran 1-0, congratulated Messi through Twitter, and invited Messi to join the "Holy War", awarded Messi the title of "Father of Argentine Goalscorer", and rewarded him as the "Prince of Latin America".
One of the reasons ISIS congratulated Messi was Messi's victory over Iran. As we all know, Iran is the only Shiite Yisilan country in the world, and Middle Eastern terrorist organizations such as ISIS are followers of Sunni Yisilan religion. The struggle between the Sunnis (mainly Saudi) and Shiites (mainly Iranian) in the Yisilan religion has a long history, and Messi's KO of Iran is considered by ISIS to be a move "in response to jihad".
However, the organization has no faith in Messi, especially after being snubbed, ISIS also sees Messi as an antagonist; Those who believe in Messi are considered "infidels". In recent years, ISIS has taken extreme actions towards Messi's fans:
In 2014, ISIS invaded the Sinjar region of Iraq, where the majority of the population is Yazidis, and a young boy named "Messi" was abducted by ISIS along with his mother and sister. The terrorists ordered "Messi" to change the name to *** Hassan.
After two full years of abuse, the boy and his family have been rescued and now live with his father in the Dohuk refugee camp in Iraq. In media interviews, the boy was reluctant to mention "Messi" again, fearing that ISIS would retaliate again......
Remember the little boy who made the "Argentina No. 10 Messi" jersey out of plastic bags? At the beginning of 2016, a 5-year-old Afghan boy, Jan Murtaza, wore Messi's Argentina No. 10 jersey made from plastic bags, walking on a desolate land, and his back made people feel pity. With the help of netizens around the world, Messi's team got in touch with Murtaza, and the little boy got Messi's signed jersey as he wished.
This would have been a happy ending, however, ISIS is targeting the little boy because Messi is the "enemy" of this extremist group. The Taliban confronted the boy's father with threatening phone calls and letters, and the Taliban asked the boy's father: "Why don't you let the boy go to the Yisilan school to learn the Quran and let him support a player?" "When he received the threat, Murtaza's father felt fear." Life becomes our pain. I sold everything and fled Afghanistan with my family so I could save my son and the rest of my family. β
As the number one sport in the world, football has a lot of charm. ISIS, an anti-human extremist organization, also has a special "soft spot" for football.
In the 2015 Asian Cup in Australia, Iraq VS Jordan was in full swing. In a sensational incident in the Iraqi city of Mosul (controlled by extremist groups), 13 teenage fans were rounded up by ISIS while watching a game, and armed men escorted 13 fans to an open field and brutally machine-gun them......
On November 13, 2015, the terrorist attacks in Paris shocked the world. Explosions and shootings occurred in Cambodian restaurants, the Stade de France, and near the Bataclan concert hall. It is reported that the original plan of the terrorists was to carry out a suicide attack on the Stade de France with bombs. Since French President FranΓ§ois Hollande was watching the game at the time, the security standards for the match were quite high, and the terrorists were not able to rush into the stadium to launch an attack.
In May 2016, just before the deciding penalty, four terrorists broke into the lobby and opened fire on the crowd, killing at least 16 people and injuring 20 others, in a tragic incident at a Real Madrid fan club 40 miles north of Baghdad, Iraq. The terrorists took advantage of the chaos to flee, and two people were killed by detonating suicide bombs on the spot.
In July 2016, the local Syrian football club Al - accused them of being a spy for Kurdish forces in Syria. Cruelly, after the decapitation of the four players, there were also children on the side who were in charge of examining the bodies.
Before Euro 2016, ISIS elements threatened to turn the tournament into a cemetery; For the 2018 World Cup, ISIS also has a clear goal: "We are waiting for every opportunity to carry out an attack...... We are the graves of the Russians and the Americans. β
In September 2016, foreign media reported that ISIS published a list of "forbidden jerseys". The jerseys of clubs such as the United States, France, Germany, Italy, England, Real Madrid, Barcelona, AC Milan, as well as jerseys printed with Messi and Ronaldo, are all within the scope of "prohibition". If someone violates it, they will be punished with 80 lashes.
In ISIS's view, football is an "anti-yisilan" existence. In 2016, ISIS explained the "irrationality" of football β in football, it is the referee who can make decisions, but the referee is not a practitioner of the Yisilan teaching, so football should be banned.
If you want to add sin, there is no excuse. Another reason for ISIS's anti-football argument is that the prize system of football violates yisilan law. It is recorded in the Hadith of Abu Dawood, al-Tirmi and Ibn Maajah that prizes can be set only in archery, horse riding and camel races. Because, the purpose of setting up bonuses in this kind of event is to encourage and mobilize *** to fight for the main road.
Scholars from the Standing Committee for Academic Research and Shariah Law believe that in the eyes of Yisilan Shari'a, football events such as the World Cup, the European Cup, the Asian Cup, and the Champions League are full of commercial practices, even gambling, aiding evil and aggression, and are evil activities that hinder the spread of Yisilan Shari'ah and compete with it for resources.
Ultra-fundamentalists believe that life in the time of the Prophet Muhammad, against all forms of entertainment, and with a full and devotion to religious responsibilities, is the most desirable way to do so. People should strictly follow the requirements of the Yisilan Shariah, football has a Western missionary color, it is an ugly thing that corrupts the people like money and the Western way of life, which is an erosion of the Yisilan religious position.
In the stands of fans in football matches, there is also the phenomenon of "non-compliance with the law". The Yisilan Shariah has a strict "arah" (intimate parts) that should not be exposed to outsiders. The footballer shows his thighs, which in the eyes of the teachings constitutes a kind of Fitnah. Mixing male and female fans is also against the Shariah.
In the extremely strict fundamentalist teachings, commercials, cheering instruments, etc., are all violations of the Shari'a. For musical instruments preach the lustful pleasures of the world and make people turn their backs on the ways of Allah. Worshipping non-*** stars is a kind of belief in "sin".
When ISIS targeted Messi, Neymar, Cristiano Ronaldo and Wang Dalong, the significance couldn't be clearer: to use influential soccer stars to create panic around the world. The purpose of fanfare propaganda and using Messi, Neymar, Ronaldo and Wang Dalong as the protagonists is nothing more than to gain popularity, attract attention, and create an atmosphere of panic.
Humanity is against war, against killing, against peace, against sports. Football is a common hobby of the whole world and all mankind, and violence, politics and religion are far away from football, which is the voice of all fans.
However, often this kind of thing happens all around us! Wang Dalong didn't believe that the world would be so peaceful. Just last year, he went to France and encountered the terrorist attack on the Paris metro, so he has always maintained a strong wariness of this kind of thing.
Although it may not be true, be careful to sail the ship of ten thousand years.
In addition to forbidding anyone to leave the hotel, the Manchester City Club also called the British Embassy for help, and the British Embassy approached Turkish officials, and finally, the Turkish Capital Police Department dispatched 300 police officers to guard the outside of the hotel, and imposed martial law on the surrounding area.
To Wang Dalong's surprise, he found that De Bruyne, who was in the same room as him, had been standing by the window and looking out.
"What are you looking at? See if there will be terrorists? β
"Wang, this is not a joke, aren't you afraid of you as the protagonist?" De Bruyne's face was already pale, but now his mood made him even whiter.
"Of course I'm afraid, but it's not a way for you to look out the window like this, don't you need to go to bed?" Of course Wang Dalong is afraid, everyone will be afraid, but he is afraid that he will not be able to solve the problem, there are police guarding outside, will terrorists come from the sky?
Even if it were, it would have to be left to fate. UEFA will not cancel this Champions League match because of a poster, if it does, then this year's World Cup can directly cancel the Brazilian six stars.
"The two explosions in Belgium at the beginning of last year still make me feel uneasy, the world is so unsafe, I sometimes even think that there can ......be explosions when I play on the pitch," De Bruyne still muttered, expressing his concern, "You said that tomorrow on the pitch, will there be such a danger?" β
Wang Dalong stretched his waist and said in his heart, how can he answer this question?
"I'm sure I wouldn't think so, isn't that a clear desire to die? I'm not so stupid, what I have to do now is to sleep well, and then tomorrow under the protection of the Turkish police, take Galatasaray, and then go back to the UK as soon as possible, it's that simple! β
"But I can't sleep!" De Bruyne said so, but walked back through the window.
Actually, Wang Dalong is also thinking nonsense, but he is not as restless as De Bruyne, "If you can't sleep, you have to sleep, otherwise how will you play tomorrow and count the sheep......"
That night, in fact, most of the players had trouble sleeping.
The next day, when everyone gathered in the hotel lobby, they were basically panda-eyed. Pep Guardiola cancelled his morning training session and decided to continue with a half-day off to rest.
Wang Dalong and the others climbed back into bed without hesitation......
When Pep Guardiola held a press conference at noon, a BBC reporter asked him: "Did you cancel the pre-match training because of safety concerns?" β
Pep Guardiola replied: "No, it's because I don't think it's necessary, Man City are ready. β
"Ready to lose this game?"
"Lost? Why not win, do you think we're going to lose the game? Do you think we'll be scared? Guardiola was a little excited, but also a little incoherent, and he was emotional, spitting at reporters.
This kind of him is a little abnormal!
The reporter also felt very embarrassed, he just asked the question very casually, why is Guardiola so excited?
In the end, Guardiola hastily ended the press conference, and the reporters parted happily.
And this Champions League match is going on as usual.
It seems that Turkish fans are used to seeing this kind of threatening scene, Galatasaray's home stadium is still very hot, but in Wang Dalong's opinion, the turf of this stadium is not solid at all.
At this time, Wang Dalong felt that Manchester City's 11 players had been watched by terrorists......
And with such an atmosphere, how to play a good game?