[Dan from Michigan]

Silverman has too much time on his hands.

[Constitution Day]

"I have a history of protesting things," Silverman said.

Indeed.

[Fierce Allegiance]

Good thing he's not in Worcester, right next door to "Orson."

[kallisti]

i thought it was named after the rabbit.

[KellyAdmirer]

Silverman's point, he said, was that the term Crusaders refers to medieval military expeditions by Christians who "killed thousands and thousands of people with the encouragement of the Catholic Church."

The Crusades were defensive military operations against a hostile power whose aim was the conquering and subjugation of all who held differing religious views. The Crusaders merely sought to recover holy lands that had been Christian before they were occupied, and they fought at the invitation, in fact the entreatment, of the rightful owners of those lands. If the Byzantine Empire had not declined, there would have been no reason for them. Ultimately, because the Crusades failed, the Christian powers were forced to fight further desperate defensive battles against the invaders in the heart of Europe, at Vienna, battles they very nearly lost.

More schools should have the nickname "Crusaders," to honor those valiant men.

[Corporate Law]

It brings back the phrase, "in the old days, we would settle this with a couple of baseball bats and a sock full of quarters".

[Alex Murphy]

In 2000, Wheaton College in Illinois changed its team name from Crusaders to the Thunder after students petitioned for a change. Earlier this year, the University of Incarnate Word in San Antonio also dropped the Crusaders moniker.

I hear the moniker Infidel Hordes is up for grabs.

[Pyro7480]

"If they don't like the secular world and secular schools, they don't have to come here," Silverman said.

Ah, the tolerance of the Left...

[albertp]

Bednar said this is the first time anyone has taken issue with McDevitt's nickname. The school has no plans to change, she said.

Good! For a moment I thought they might collapse under the pressure of such a massive protest, and the eloquent conscience and higher moral ground of a postmodern liberal, and change their name to the Jihadists.(sarcasm)

Silverman's point, he said, was that the term Crusaders refers to medieval military expeditions by Christians who "killed thousands and thousands of people with the encouragement of the Catholic Church."

Mr. Silverman obviously has a comprehensive view of history, does he not? Try this on, Mister Silverman, courtesy of Winston Churchill (as opposed to "peace in our times"-Neville Chamberlain): "Mohammedan law...must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men...(the) influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytising faith...and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science...the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome." (And NO, I do NOT condone ALL that the Crusades did!)

[Old Sarge]

"It is not about public school vs. catholic school," she explained. "It's about protecting from the wrongs in the world."

How about protecting your sorry ass from people who will gleefully do

THIS!!!

[ZULU]

"Silverman's point, he said, was that the term Crusaders refers to medieval military expeditions by Christians who "killed thousands and thousands of people with the encouragement of the Catholic Church."

Silverman should go stuff it where the sun doesn't shine.

I have it up to here with these idiot protestors who complain about everything - Indian Names, Crusaders, hunting scenes, you name it.

I LIKE Crusaders - I LIKE them a lot. Sure, they made some mistakes - but nobody's perfect. They flushed the Muslims out of the Holy Land for a few years and gave them a taste of their own medicine.

They flushed them out of Spain and Southern Italy and parts of the Eastern Mediterranean. Too bad they weren't around in 1429, they might have stopped madman Mehmet and saved Constantinople and we wouldn't be reading about nutacse Turks trying to block the re-opening of some monastery or seminary out there.

Silverman, I'm fed up with people like you who continually have to rant and rave over some wacko cause because, as another poster put it so well, you have too much time on your hands.

If people like Silverman had their way, we ALL would wake up, drive to work in our boring fuel efficient cars, slave at some mindless boring job, and then drive home, eat our vegan diet - alcohol free and cholesterol free of course - with no salt or sugar, watch some ridiculous sitcom and then go to bed. That's their perfect world - 1984 - right here and now with all of us acting, dressing, thinking and behaving like the same kind of mindless zombies.

So Silverman - SHOVE IT!!!

[harrym]

My high school, Archbishop Riordan in S.F., uses the Crusader as its mascot. After 9/11 I have conspicuously displayed their pennant in my rear window proclaiming "Crusaders". You're damn right that it implies armed conflict against Islam. Read you're history, they almost conquered Europe with "the Koran or the Sword". They are as big a threat to western civilization today as they were then. Only this time we are supplying them with the technology to finish the job.

[LiberalBassTurds]

I might have some respect for Silverman if his sign said "Come rape my wife and daughters, behead my sons, and beat me to death and set me on fire." But that's probably too long for a team name. Silverman...Jewish? (Just shakes my head.)

[Rakkasan1]

could always do like that school in Colorado did and call
them "The Fighting Whities"...

[Siamese Princess]

Quit demanding that the world conform to your desires.

[MississippiMan]

Silverman sued the Hagerstown Suns minor league baseball team over a promotion that gave fans a discount on Sunday tickets if they brought a church bulletin to the box office. The team settled, extending the discount to any meeting bulletins.

And that's how we came to be in such a mess now. Always settling. Always compromising, caving, negotiating with anti-American idiots.

MM

[Navy Patriot]

Oh, man, when Crusader Rabbit hears about this, Silverman is toast.

Dosen't he realize that the Crusaders are the GOOD GUYS?

[Hacksaw]

"If they don't like the secular world and secular schools, they don't have to come here," Silverman said.

If Silverman doesn't like freedom of speech and religion, he doesn't have to live in the United States.

[bunkerhill7]

CRUSADER

[reagan_fanatic]

This guy needs a garden hose enema.