Lilovmarsh comments

This is a-bso-lu-tely ridiculous. I am French, I don't do the "quenelle" (its real meaning is kind of vulgar if you know it) but I can assure you that it's not an antisemitic gesture. And Dieudonné isn't racist. Obviously you've never heard his jokes. In his (hilarious) shows, he talks about slavery, holocaust, totalitarism, dictature, any form of racism, terrorism, casual violence, communitarianism... He makes fun of black/white/brown/yellow people, his worst enemies and his best friends. His mother is French & his father's Congolese; his wife is white too! He said it himself : racism is stupidity. His humor's based on provocation and since media mainstream banned him from radio & tv after he made a (not so funny but inoffensive) sketch about a zionist settler, and receives death threats since then, he likes to denounce (with sarcasm & irony) how far from authentic judaism the zionism is. That's why he has the support of a lot of anti-zionist rabbis & jews who basically say "We're normal citizens, normal human beings, don't make us the sanctified victims in France of anywhere else, we don't wanna justify everything we have and everything we do with our terrible loss. Palestinian people don't have to suffer like we did. No one should." Dieudonné is nothing more than an humorist. I don't think any of his fans or friends agree with each word he says. What matters is that millions of (very various) people think he's funny, because -I repeat it- he's just an humorist. You wrote your disgust of Anelka's quenelle but a so-called democratic governement is actually judging what is funny and what isn't, when we're allowed to laugh and when we're officially anti-semitic - -" . The question is : can we laugh when Michael Scott in The Office US says "If I had a gun with two bullets, and I was in a room with Hitler, Bin Laden, and Toby, I would shoot Toby twice." ? Because I'm pretty sure our minister Manuel Valls would be officially shocked.

And about Anelka, the representant of the jewish community here in France said it wasn't anti-semitic or racist. Dieudonné always said it was anti-system and also uses the term "quenelle" to designate a big lie from the french governement. So, whoelse has the right to imagine & say the quenelle is nazi ? Doing the quenelle in front of a synagogue is quite stupid but it could just mean "Not wanting to talk all day about the Shoah doesn't make us anti-semitic.". I'm not in their heads, I can't tell what they wanted to say by this quenelle. I can't defend or condamn them when I know nothing about these guys. But anyways, do I have to remind you that nazism is more than the hatred against jews ? For Anelka, a nazi salute would be an insult to his own family, origins, religion, etc. (same for Dieudonné M'Bala M'Bala and a lot of "quenellistes")

On the other hand, I would totally understand if the FA considers the quenelle to be a political gesture since it's against the establishment. But Dieudonné was having trouble and Nicolas Anelka, as his personal friend, wanted to show his personal support in a moment of glory. I don't think the FIFA laws tell us a soccer player can't dedicate a goal to a friend who's also a public figure.