The Egyptian Zamalek star, Mahmoud Abdel Razek Shikabala, was subjected to smear campaigns described as "racism" during the past two days, which caused a state of dissatisfaction with the Egyptian and Arab sports street, after he published a picture that brought him together with his wife and son to celebrate Eid al-Fitr, and he was subsequently subjected to racist responses and distortion from A large number of audiences on social media.
Shikabala had caused a crisis before during the last Egyptian Super match, in front of Al-Ahly, and was subjected to sanctions accompanied by a number of players from both teams, before the league stopped, and the same player is a party to a new crisis, but only through his image.
It is calculated for the player that he did not respond or contact with any of the followers, and remained silent, provided that there is a strong media response awaiting the results of the coming days, according to what was published by the media. In response to what the player was exposed to, the sports media performance control committee headed by Fahmy Omar, affiliated to the Supreme Council for Media Regulation, issued a statement condemning "distortion and racist campaigns that appeared on social media pages in the recent period."
The statement said: The sports media performance monitoring committee followed with more regret the social media sites that have witnessed in recent days, from a violation of social morals and norms by a number of fanatics who do not appreciate sport and its noble values, which approx and do not spread and calls for love, tolerance and acceptance of the other, against Competitors in an alarming incident that increases the congestion that the committee warned of in many previous situations, poisoned the atmosphere of sports encouragement and diverted it from its natural course, which gave sports competition fun and excitement.
The Committee expressed its regret for the violations taking place on the sports scene, which started through television programs that were not deterred from the penalties that were imposed on them, and moved from them to social networking sites, and renews its call for everyone to adhere to the values of noble sport, and calls on the heads of clubs, their officials, game stars and the media to assume their responsibilities National and professional each in its position, in confronting this phenomenon that offends the entire Egyptian society, no one accepts the phenomenon of stabbing the symptoms or receivables that spread the fire in the wild, and we must all cooperate to stop this phenomenon and eradicate it from our stadiums and our media, to return to sport Our human relations are serenity and sophistication. "