It was Karl Marx who said that religion is “the opium of nations”. He meant that religion acts as a sedative (Having a soothing, calming, or tranquilizing effect; reducing or relieving anxiety, stress, irritability, or excitement) for the oppressed people who should rebel against those who deprive them of a decent living. Nowadays, it seems that sport became the opium. In foot ball-mad Europe, people are more interested in goals scored by Ronaldo and not about the economic crises facing their respective nations manifested by high energy and food prices or by the home repossession.
In Iraq, people from all walks of life come out celebrating and firing in the air whenever a goal is scored ignoring the miserable living conditions under the brutal and barbaric American occupation. It was no wonder that a frustrated widow wrapped up her dynamite belt and went yesterday 14.06.08 to blow up people celebrating Iraq win on China killing and injuring scores of young Kurds including 12 police officers in a village near Baquba.
These days, football superstars make in a single week more that the yearly income of two university professors in the United Kingdom, Italy, France, Germany and Spain. Many may think that it is going too far, but it is a free market where at this moment in time entertainment comes before other aspects of the economy. Whether it is the right investment or not, it is irrelevant, as the free market economy has no human face.
Adnan Darwash, Iraq Occupation Times
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