Amir Khan vs. Dmitry Salita, Muslim vs. Jewish rivalry?
(AP Photo/PA, Owen Humphreys)
One would think that Amir Khan and Dimitry Salita would’ve played up the religious angle to draw tickets sales for their December 5th WBA junior welterweight showdown at the Newcastle Metro Arena.
But No stones or insults were thrown by either fighter, both were cordial to each other and both come from two different religious backgrounds, Amir being a devout Muslim and Dmitry an Orthodox Jew.
They showed nothing but pure class and sportsmanship during the press conference announcing the the fight.
Even though both fighters were respectful of each other it may be a different story for the Muslim and Jewish fans of the fighters. As we have seen in sports the fans can have a different demeanor than the sports star they follow, and become overly passionate during these sort of events.
In an article by By Robert Millward of The Canadian Press both fighters had addressed the media with utter professionalism and made it clear this fight was not about religion.
“People should not make something that it’s not,” Salita said. “We are two guys from two different backgrounds coming to fight. I respect Amir Khan inside and outside the ring.”
Khan believes this fight is about the title on the line not a religious battle:
“We are professional sportsmen in a worldwide sport,” Khan said. “This fight is huge because we are fighting for the world title but not because of any religious aspect.”
The fight is for Khan’s WBA World light welterweight title, Metro Radio Arena, United Kingdom will host the event on December 5, 2009.
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That is going to be scary I hope the taliban doesn’t show up. LOL
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That wasnt necessay Megyn, anyway its not the Taliban you should be scared of its the zionist jews from the israeli army, there a million times worse than the Taliban are. But seeing as though its going to be held in Newcastle i think it’ll end up being ur regular racist northerners that turn up and cause a ruccus! Good luck to both fighters.
That is going to be scary I hope zionist don`t show up with their F-16s bombing kids and woman
I HOPE THE F-16′S DO SHOW UP !!
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A follower of “Religion of Peace” agreed to touch a “dirty Jooooooo”? This is truly novel.
yes yall should be afraid you know i eat arab children and i drink they’re blood
and i dip my bullets in lard
oh i make horse stables out of mosques and make roads and latrines out of muslim tombstones and i educate my children to grow up and shoot misiles at civillian populated areas and blow up busses
FEZ u r an ignorant wanker…racist northerners??? Racism is everywhere and i’l tell u something i’m jewish with friends from Rwanda, Libya Iran and many more Newcsatle is a mixed and diverse city with far less racism than London or Brirmingham or Bristol foer example and Gateshead homes the largest orthodox Jewish community outside of Israel and New York. Keep it about the fight, I was at the Baltic last week and spoke at length wit Dmitriy who was very keen to get away from YOUR racist bigoted style of views. Just hope its a good fight and pricks like u don’t hijack it!!!
As a muslim, I have deep respect for the orthodox jews as i’ve worked with many and am quite close with their families. Evem our prophet had good relations with the jewish people.
However, i do have a problem with both the Zionist Israelis and the Taliban who used the name of the religion to pusue their perverse ambitions.
Good lick to both fighters………
fukkk jews muslims rule
Well….very interesting comments posted….I think that deep down both fighters believe that this is about religion, even though they say in public that its not about religion, if it wasnt why mention it in the first place??, the fact is that muslims have been butchered all over the world including the holy land, and that affects every muslim worldwide, so this will be a fantastic fight if Dmitry is a decent fighter, i havent seen any of his fights, either way i hope Amir Khan wins.
Some of you must be smokin some good s***. I totally agree with “fair” about how there are a lot of great orthodox jewish families out there, as well as many orthodox muslim families. “Adnan” seems like a closed-minded fool. Just because YOU think it’s a fight between religions doesn’t mean everyone else in the world thinks so ignorantly as well. You’re a sad disgrace to Muslims to even think such a thing. The topic of religions was brought up by the **media** to gain interest in their articles, they’re always after money, any adult should understand that.
They are both respectful and respectable fighters, I wish them both the best of luck, but my heart fully goes out to my champ Amir Khan.
Peace.
Is Khan really muslim? He supports the British army over muslims in Luton, also he has a name like “amir” which is a jewish name meaning “treetop”. maybe just two jews fighting one pretending to be muslim. Not the first time jews pretend to be something they are not (ie Joseph Starlin, Winston churchill whose mother was called jenny jacobson, and Kemal Atturk)
Omar I think your a Jew using a Muslim name..?
Isn’t it a pity that the idiots who chose to air there anti-semitic bile can’t show the same sportsmanship as the two boxers. Amir is British and sportsmen like him are welcome here. As for having schnide remarks about Jews and Israel these idiots should remember that the Ancient Egyptians, the Ancient Greeks, Baylonians, Romans and Hitler’s Nazis all tried to do away with the Jews but the Jews are still here. Their enemies named above have all gone! This fight is between two true sportsman and as an orthodox Jew I say may the best man win. It’s a pity that those Moslem’s who used this to denigrate Amir’s allegience to Briton don’t leave these shores and go to the Islamic countries whose cause they propagate here. People are not be-headed in public and do not have their limbs amputated in Israel. Israel has the right to self defence and that is the only time any tanks are used. G-d bless Israel, Amir and Dimitry. David Howard
HOOOOOOLLDDDD UP…..MUSLIM OR A NON MUSLIM, THERE SHUD BE NO RACISM. THIS IS BECAUSE THERE CAN BE MANY NON MUSLIMS IN THIS WORLD HU WILL EVENTUALLY TURN INTO MUSLIMS.
HU STARTED THE WORLD???
HU FOUND ALL THE COUNTRIES???
HU WERE THE FIRST PEOPLE TO MAKE THINGS SUCH AS CLOCKS AND HOSUES AND ROADS???
TAKE A WILD GUESS CASUE IT WAS MUSLIMS. SO THE MUSLIMS STARTED ALL THIS SO HU DO U THINK IS GONA END IT?
AGAIN, THE MUSLIMS ARE GNA END IT. SO THEREFORE MUSLIMS ARE RIGHT.
ANOTHER THING…..
…..AMIR KHAN? DO U REALLY THINK HES A MUSLIM. OUR PROPHET SAID, IT IS FORBIDDEN TO HIT SOMEONE ELSE ON THE FACE. SO WHY DOES AMIR KHAN DO IT? IS IT CAUSE HE WANTS MONEY? IS CAUSE HE WANTS TO BE POPULAR? IS IT FOR FAME? IS IT TO SHOW OFF? OR IS IT TOEARN RESPECT?
WELL LET ME TELL U THIS. AMIR KAH NIS DOING IT FOR ALL THESE THINGS I HAV SED ABOVE. WT DOES IT SAY IN OUR RELIGION?, DNT BE GREEDY FOR MONEY, DONT BE POPLUAR CAUSE THE EVIL EYE CAN GET YA, STOP URSELF FROM FAME, DO NOT SHOW OFF OTHERWISE UR GOING TO HELL AND BY THE ONLY WAY TO EARN RESPECT IS TO FOLLOW OUR PROPHET.
SO AMIR KAHN, IF U R READING THIS, THINK AGAIN AND THINK HARDER BUT REMEBER, THINKIING ABOUT ISLAM IS DANGER CAUSE U CANNOT BE 2 MINDED IF U R A M USLIM OR NOT. U EITHER ARE OR UR EITHER NOT.
The comment above personally i think u r an idiot, Muslims didnt create everything, Islam formed from a Jew of the name Ismael who was son of Abraham, you should know that as you are such a devout muslim. To me you don’t even know your own religion. Plus my best friend is a muslim and he does not act like such an ignorant prik like YOU!
Crazy how nobody brings up Muhammad Ali, Mike Tyson, Bernard Hopkins, Chris Eubanks, Hasim Rahman, Tony Mundine or Danny Williams being Muslim because they’re black. But Asians like Amir Khan and Naseem Hamed are always immediately associated with Islam because they’re more “Arab-looking”.
If Amir or Bernard Hopkins ever fought the Black Jew Zab Judah, I bet no one would bring up the Muslim vs Jewish angle. But because it’s a brown Muslim vs a white Jew you gotta bring religion into it.
all these comments are so unneccessary. I dont think anyone will be worried about israeli f-16s, or some muslim extremist flying a plane into newcastle or blowing themselves up.
some of the pro-muslim comments are embarassingly ignorant and narrow minded.
■proud zionist war criminal—ur comments are shit. im guessin ur just as ignorant as saif. besides, isnt the dome of the rock that is built over the jewish temple in jerusalem…
all im sayin is if u wana bring religion into this, which is understandably a real interest point, atleast get some facts straight, dnt jus use it as an opportunity to chat shit about how we shld all owe u for the creation of the world or that ur religion has been hated on throughout history- its called a subjective view and everyone has their own…deal with it
hope its a good fight that isnt runined by all this
INSHALLAH AMIR GONNA WIN !!!
Hello all why does the world have to be so full of hatred and politics this is sport forget all else and may the best fighter win a jew from gateshead
I didn’t realize there were so many racist “crazies” in Britain! I’m glad to be an American, where people are more tolerant. I hope the best man (Demitri Salida) wins.
hahaha ur best man Dmetri got bashed, he was soo scared he even ran to the corner and went down to stop the barrage of punches,
to the rest of the small minded fools out there with pride issues, seriously if u have a problem with someone uve never met or seen or even heared of then it is u who has erred and is in the wrong
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in battle of Israel and Pakistan!
Pakistan fucked Israel!
Ok people, we had enough now. As a Britsh I am proud of Amir. I am a Muslim is well but we should keep this out of sports as we all love our relagion. Love is what we need in our heart not poison.
Allah bless everybody
hahahahaha
the jew got battered in the first round
that proves jews cant fight
jewish pussy stinks of rotten kosher meat found under rabbi goldbergs matress after he picked her up on night out in jewish barmitswah party but her pussy revealed long hairs also found dangling near orthodox jews ears, immediatly her ass was left on the door step but her kosher pussy was left in the cold so i let it in for the night.
jewish pussy stinks of rotten kosher meat found under rabbi goldbergs matress after he picked her up on night out in jewish barmitswah party but her pussy revealed long hairs also found dangling near orthodox jews ears, immediatly her ass was left on the door step