So he was 'forced' to drink wine as well.
To fit in!
A strange concept for a practising Muslim.
Thrown a lot under the bus and with so much left of his life the regret could be huge in years to come.
Still at least he will be richer !

Is this just ‘banter’? I think it’s very important you actually listen to what he has to say.

‘Rafiq alleged that Martyn Moxon, now Yorkshire’s director of cricket, “tore a strip” off him when he returned after the loss of his child. He told the committee he had never seen him talk to anyone like that before and called on him to apologise for his behaviour. Rafiq described his treatment by the club as “inhuman” after the stillbirth of his son. In his witness statement he claimed: “Throughout 2017 and 2018 I struggled as a result of the bullying, targeting and racism I faced – to the point that, again, I had suicidal thoughts. Despite my disclosure to Martyn about this in August 2017, nothing was done. Soon after, I faced accusations of ‘faking injuries’ and ‘ruling myself out’ of selection by teammates, which meant that senior management (i.e. Martyn and others) were openly discussing my confidential medical records and their assessments of them.”’

Yeah, I'm sure he invited the local EDL as well, just to make up the numbers.

You are too funny.

Nice to know you can be a South Asian wedding planner, you have no idea how many people attended the wedding but you are stereotyping South Asians so well done there.

Responsibility Deficit Disorder is a medical condition. Symptoms include inability to be corrected when wrong, false sense of superiority, desire to share personal info no else cares about, general hubris. It's a medical issue rather than pure arrogance.

From what I have seen, it seems like he is simply playing the race card.
He got called a few names during banter sessions with his team mates and then tried to link that to treatment by management that he considered unfair.

How many employees think they get unfair treatment from management and colleagues? Millions I should think. Maybe he did get unfair treatment, but that is a million miles away from proving actual racism.

He is getting this hearing so that politicians and the media can appear woke. Simple as that. Most people get an employment tribunal or are paid off at best.

Edited by Hrolf The Ganger (17 Nov 2021 9.21am)

I think he’s entitled to ‘play the race card’ if ‘a few names’ are actually racist slurs or insults. Stop downplaying it to fit your agenda. Loads of employees get unfair treatment. Racism is, rather obviously, beyond ‘unfair treatment’. Do you have a threshold for when racism is racist enough to be a problem? I suppose casual continual racist banter doesn’t quite make it for you. A psychologist would have a field day working out why your harbour such continual resentment to anyone you view as ‘better off’ or apparently getting special treatment.

Also I do find it ironic that you’re forever complaining about identity politics when you are in fact guilty of it every time you generalise about other races, in this case motivation for ‘playing the race card’.

Now whether this had to be trotted out to the public in the fashion that is unfolding now is another question, and I do agree the current penchant for these sort of instances becoming unbalanced and unobjective is a concern, as is the moral character of Rafiq himself based on other chatter around this subject (which is not necessarily being reported in a balanced way). However once racism enters the fray you’re leaving yourself at the mercy of the storm. Also just because his character is not squeaky clean does not mean that his allegations should not be taken seriously, trivialised or somehow dismissed. Objectivity in action, right there.

Ultimately if the seniority at Yorkshire, including senior players, had an ounce of awareness and understanding about what is racist and what isn’t, with sincerity or not, this would never have escalated. And it’s not a single or rare instance - it was continuous and culturally entrenched in the club by the captain and dismissed by his seniors to try and hush it up and prevent escalation. Which ironically is now happening. So it’s all on them, frankly.

To add - I’ve been privy to several club threads where openly racist content is shared. Sometimes is shut down, rightly, other times it’s simply allowed to continue or even celebrated. Needless to say from what I’ve seen
this rather expectedly happens in some of the backwater areas outside of London but it simply shows it’s not a problem from 10 years ago.

Did you know? 98.0000001% of people are morons.