Khan v Malignaggi weigh in kicks off!!

[JazMerkin]

Good read is that. Sounds like madness. Not sure where the reporter is going towards the end of it though.

I think what he was getting at, with a group of guys looking thuggish sporting Pakistan flags and other militant stuff whatever that means. People could jump to conclusions in a city and jump them or something. People are a bit on edge in NYC right now

I just don't think he needed to go there. It was irrelevant to the weigh-in. Plus the Americans should be ok with the Khan army clothing. Afterall, it is just that - clothing. If it troubles them, it makes the Cinco de Mayo/Us Flag t-shirt outrage a little hypocritical.

haha it is funny how when the other side does it, the dreaded minorities, all of a sudden national flags take on a sinister and intimidating character. Poor America was in fear it seems, terrorised by these evil men wearing their milataristic, hate inspired tshirts. Di bella nearly pulls out his fighter over the threat.

I think they needed that school principle there. He wouldn't have let Khan's army into the building dressed in that garb and they would have not been there to kick off :-)

Haha my sentiments exactly mate.

That makes you a hypocrite as well, no? Wasn't the writer thinking along the same lines as the teacher?

I think the writer is the hypocrite. Look at the ways the two stories are interperated. When the American schoolkids wore their flag inspired clothes on Cinda di Mayo day they are just happy go lucky, proudly patriotic, troop supporting, good clean American kids, the kind of loveable youths that help grandma across the road and do odd jobs to help their community.

But when Khan's team wear their Pakistani colours they are making an intimidating, terrorist supporting, American hating battle cry.

I hate the way the media interperate things for their own ends.

Look at the Wooten Basset march.

When us Brits mourned the deaths of British soldiers in Wooten Basset,it was all about respect for those brave men, solidarity with their familys and a show of unity against war and aggression.

But when the Muslims wanted to march through the same town to mourn the deaths (many times more as well) of their Arab bretheren killed in Afgansistan and Iraq they were ' evil' ,'fundamentalist', 'radical ', 'hate driven' so much so that a new law was rushed through to prevent them exercising their freedom of speech and incidently was supported by virtually the whole country.

The media and public bias in terms of interperating the behaviours of both sides is frankly staggering imo.

Apples and oranges dude. First off, those American kids were in their own country. They didn't go to Pakistan or some other country and try to rile things up. I don't think DiBella or anybody else gave a damn what Khans people were wearing, they had a problem with them all bum-rushing the stage like a bunch of thugs. And the writer was simply pointing out that the citizens of NY are on edge right now, and the wrong person might not be too keen on seeing some Pakistani militant clothing and the some Muslims acting like thugs.

You're right, it's been great how no Americans have gone over to Muslim countries, particularly South Asia and riled up any kind of ill feeling in those places. They've really demonstrated such resolve in staying out of the business of the Islamic world and... wait... I'll get my coat

Also, I'm curious on your take on Pakistani militant clothing, are their insurgents decked out in black hoodies??