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Indy Jess John wrote:
On 02/11/2016 10:00, Chris Green wrote:

FIFA's reason (or not) is that the poppy is a religious symbol,
nothing to do with it being an advert or not.

The question is whether their seeing the poppy as a religious symbol
is correct.

Given that Sikhs, Moslems and Gurkhas all fought in the British Army and
some of each of them were killed, it is difficult to imagine what
religion the poppy is a symbol of.

Quite. As well as many different sorts of Christianity.

But it's more likely to be classified as a political symbol by FIFA. A way
of remembering our soldiers who died - while doing as little as possible
to help those who were merely injured.

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