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By Debbie Schlussel
Longtime readers know that I like boxing, fights, and that one of
my guilty pleasures is watching a good martial arts movie.
Sometimes, since I can’t do that stuff to get out my own stress, I
like watching those who do. It’s a vicarious thing for the
non-violent and physically tiny and powerless (i.e., me).
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Look For a Burqa to Veil Islamic Gulf-State Owned UFC
So, it really bugs me that even something as viscerally American as
UFC–the Ultimate Fighting Championship–is now 10% owned by an
anti-Semitic Gulf state, which has a policy of travel apartheid and
won’t let Jewish Israelis into its borders. Yup, the UFC is
now 10% owned by the sons of the late Sheikh Zayed Al-Nahyan, whose
Zayed Center funded anti-Semitic, Holocaust-denying, anti-Israel,
and 9/11 Truther speakers, authors, and books.
These Islamofascists are buying EVERYTHING. Like I always
say, remember the good old days . . . when the Japanese owned
everything in America?
Flash Entertainment, an event management company
owned by the Abu Dhabi government, bought a 10 percent stake in
Zuffa LLC, owners of the Ultimate Fighting Championship and World
Extreme Cagefighting as the sport grows in popularity.
Flash shares “our vision, passion, and
enthusiasm for the UFC,” said Lorenzo J. Fertitta, UFC Chairman, in
the PRNewswire statement today. “We are confident that this
partnership will accelerate the worldwide growth of the UFC.”
Hmm . . . does UFC have a “vision, passion, and enthusiasm” for
Judenrein like Abu Dhabi does?
Abu Dhabi, capital of the United Arab Emirates
which is home to about 8 percent of the world’s oil supply, has
embarked on an expansion and modernization plan as it looks to
diversify away from its crude-driven economy. The government’s 2030
plan, devised in 2007, foresees the population growing to as much
as 5 million from an estimated 1.6 million in 2008. The emirate
hosted its first Formula One race in November. It is also building
a branch of Paris’ Sorbonne University and Louvre and Guggenheim
museums.
Uh, you can’t “modernize” if you are obsessed with ancient,
backwoods Middle Eastern anti-Semitism, as UAE and Abu Dhabi
are. You can have all the fancy museums in the world, but if
you don’t get rid of rabid anti-Semitism, you’re nothing more than
savages with money and nice cars, which is essentially what the
Gulf states are.
Wrestling is not new to the emirate. The Abu
Dhabi Combat Club was created in 1998 by Sheikh Tahnoon Bin Zayed
Al Nahyan, the son of the U.A.E.’s founder. The club spawned the
ADCC Submission Wrestling World Championship, an international
martial arts event.
More:
Ossama Khoreibi, Chairman of Flash
Entertainment, commented, “Since our very first meeting, we were
impressed by Lorenzo, Frank and Dana’s commitment to growing UFC as
a global sport.” He continued, “Flash is equally committed to
building Abu Dhabi’s profile as an international entertainment
destination, and this partnership provides further proof of our
company’s bold ambitions. We look forward to an exciting future
ahead, working closely with our UFC partners to activate this sport
in the UAE, the region and across the world.”
The Raine Group acted as financial advisor to
Flash Entertainment. Goldman Sachs served as UFC’s financial
advisor.
Um, FYI, Mr. Khoreibi, “global” means every country in the world,
including Israel. There are many top Israeli martial arts champs.
What happens when one of them earns the right to compete in the
UAE, and Abu Dhabi won’t grant him a visa? Will UFC say nothing the
way the entire international tennis community (except Andy Roddick)
says nothing when Israeli tennis players are excluded?
It’s gonna happen. Bet on it.[/QUOTE]