Comments Thread For: Anthony Joshua is Not Fazed By Vile Abuse For Praying in Mosque

[DinoCop]

If he was in the strip club making it rain, people would have something to say. If he was caught sniffing coke, people would have something to say, or if he was beating up his girlfriend, people would have something to say. The kid was in a holy place praying, yet still gets criticized. Just goes to show, PEOPLE WILL ALWAYS HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY. Live your life for YOU and only YOU, young man!

Yea mate, this one right here is true. Some ppl who haven't succeeded in any single thing love to meddle with other ppl's lives.

[MagicG]

Islam = terrorism
End of debate.

[The Akbar One]

60 years ago they would have been making vile comments because he was Black. It's just the newest stage of racism and hate from White people. The same ones that spew racism towards ******s, are the same who spewed hate at Blacks.

[MagicG]

60 years ago they would have been making vile comments because he was Black. It's just the newest stage of racism and hate from White people. The same ones that spew racism towards ******s, are the same who spewed hate at Blacks.

Islam is not a race Dumb.

[OctoberRed]

Part of the reason Khan has received hate in the UK is religion

[mabulkhair]

Crazy that he has to explain himself why he was praying. The way I see it, he must be doing something right to have haters. So if he wants to keep praying then keep praying and if he wants be an aetheist be an aetheist there will always be haters.

[ultravividscene]

I'm just waiting for the day when people finally wake and realize that not everyone is going to be on the same page as them on everything, ever. If you post something publicly then you are chasing and will no doubt get a public reaction. If some of that reaction is negative then so be it, it is nothing more than what you should expect. This is the case for everyone, popular or not, but especially so for high profile individuals.

Thankfully it appears that Joshua has not done this with the intention of provoking public debate. Unfortunately more often than not this is the case amongst todays celebrities and it is pathetic. They should be called out and shamed when they do so.

I'd far rather listen to Tyson Fury speak his mind, ignorant and bigoted as it may seem to most than listen to another wealthy, vain celeb bleat on about the perceived injustice of the day from the safe confines of their ivory tower in a dismal attempt at social and political virtue signalling.

Good on you Joshua, keep it real

[Ray Corso]

Religious pursuits have taken more lives than any other conflicts.
I don't mind folks who nurture religious beliefs but to believe in "mythical" beings living in a mythical area is pretty insane to me.
I believe in myself and my family and some friends.
To watch helpless children starving and brutalized generation after generation it's difficult to believe in a "god"! 'If man is in his likeness than it's time to give the devil a shot!

Ray

[RedPath]

I'm amazed someone as PR savvy as AJ could get this so badly wrong, especially in the current climate. Who does he think his main demographic is? I bet Wlad is loving this. Smh. Seriously, when are sportspeople going to realise that sport and religion don’t mix. If you're a person of faith, then good on ya, I'm glad you have something that makes your life better.

But please, don't bring it into the sporting arena, because when you start pointing to the sky, or mumbling with your eyes shut, or pulling a teebow, or prefacing your post-match/fight/race interview with "I just wanna thank god…", the vast majority of sports fans are cringing, not because your displays are wrong in and of themselves, but because we came for the sports, not for random acts of religion.

KEEP RELIGION OUT OF SPORT.

[jwalkr]

So remind me which kind of ******s live in Dubai? Are they the ones where the husband dresses in flip flops, board shorts, a baseball cap ****ed to the side and "who farted t-shirt" while his wife walks 3 steps behind dressed like Darth Vader? Or are they the ones that throw gays off of buildings, stone women to death, saw people's heads off, and are really good at making bombs? Or are they the same? I can't remember.