If he insists upon proclaiming wearing his bigotry and anti-Semitism as a badge of pride and honor, then this German soccer player should not be permitted to participate in any international competition, now or in the future.

The tensions in the Middle East seem to have influenced the decision of Iranian-born German international soccer player Ashkan Dejagah's decision not to travel with the national Under-21 squad for a match in Israel.

Dejagah, who plays for Bundesliga club VfB Wolfsburg, asked his national team managers to withdraw him from Germany's European Championship qualifier against Israel, to be played in Tel Aviv on Friday, citing "personal reasons."

"He came to us citing personal reasons that seemed very plausible," DFB spokesman Jens Grittner said in a statement.

Dejagah was quoted by mass-circulation tabloid daily Bild as saying his motive was cultural.

"I have more Iranian than German blood in my veins," he said in a report published Tuesday. "That should be respected, and besides I'm doing this out of respect. My parents are Iranian."

Dejagah was born in Tehran, but later moved with his parents to Germany. He holds a German passport.

The decision on his part is outrageous, and based upon the hateful tenets of the rogue regime of his homeland and the hateful tenets of the Islamist religious cult he follows. Given GermanyÂ’s history, it is incumbent upon the German government to boot this Islamo-Nazi from the national team -- and from the country, revoking his German passport in the process.

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