{"id":57183,"date":"2017-01-26T03:00:13","date_gmt":"2017-01-26T03:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/reuters_real_madrid_logo_wont_feature_traditional_christian_cross_in_middle\/"},"modified":"2017-01-26T03:00:13","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T03:00:13","slug":"reuters_real_madrid_logo_wont_feature_traditional_christian_cross_in_middle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=57183","title":{"rendered":"(Reuters) Real Madrid logo won&#39;t feature traditional Christian cross in Middle East clothing deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marka MARKA.DU, a retailing group in the United Arab Emirates, has been granted exclusive rights to &#8220;manufacture, distribute and sell Real Madrid products&#8221; in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain and Oman, the company said in a statement on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>But Marka Vice Chairman Khaled al-Mheiri told Reuters by phone Real Madrid has two versions of the crest for the Middle East market and that Marka would use the one without the Christian cross due to cultural sensitivities.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have to be sensitive towards other parts of the Gulf that are quite sensitive to products that hold the cross,&#8221; said al-Mheiri, who owns a Real Madrid cafe in Dubai.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-religion-soccer-realmadrid-idUSKBN158235\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Christian cross dropped from Real Madrid logo in Middle East clothing deal <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MgmJZti8jc\">https:\/\/t.co\/MgmJZti8jc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Reuters Sports (@ReutersSports) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ReutersSports\/status\/823921086144200708\">January 24, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marka MARKA.DU, a retailing group in the United Arab Emirates, has been granted exclusive rights to &#8220;manufacture, distribute and sell Real Madrid products&#8221; in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain and Oman, the company said in a statement on<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=57183\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,42,175,168,200,161,426,203,659,155,108,446,128,34,562],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-anthropology","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-europe","category-inter-faith-relations","category-islam","category-middle-east","category-muslim-christian-relations","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture","category-spain","category-sports","category-theology","category-uae-united-arab-emirates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}