Newcastle's Papiss Cisse racially abused online

Newcastle United striker Papiss Demba Cisse has been at the receiving end of racial abuse by a Facebook group called the ‘Newcastle – English Defence League’.

Papiss Demba Cissa has been the victim of racial abuse on Facebook.

The attack on the player has come in the wake of reports about Cisse’s discomfort at compromising his beliefs while endorsing the logo of Newcastle’s new shirt sponsor.

Cisse had refused to wear a shirt with the logo of an internet loan company named Wong,a as his Muslim beliefs prohibits benefiting from the lending of money, under the disciplines of Shira Law.

Though Newcastle and Cisse were working together to come to a solution for the problem at hand, the club themselves were a little confused as to why the player remains steadfast when it comes to Wonga while he had no issue with wearing the shirt sponsored by Virgin Money last season, which is a bank that profits from loans as well as mortgages and overdraft charges.

But when it came down to the racial abuse of one of their own, Newcastle have done the needful and responded to the transgressors with disgust, reporting the abuse to Northumbria Police, who are trying to identify the people responsible.

Northumbria Chief Superintendent- Dianne Winship said: “Northumbria Police take all reports of abuse very seriously and enquiries are being conducted.”

This is not the first time that the Senegalese striker has been the victim of racial slurs on social networking sites. In April, the Twitter account of his girlfriend, a former Miss Newcastle, was hacked by an extremist American website and used to spread racist material.

Source: The Telegraph