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To: Ciexyz

I thought the Crescent was a Muslim symbol?

I know the Red Cross in the middle east is the Red Crescent.


16 posted on 07/31/2013 8:08:49 PM PDT by berdie
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To: berdie
"I thought the Crescent was a Muslim symbol?"

The Battle of Vienna was apparently a culinary triumph:

"One legend is that the croissant was invented in Vienna, either in 1683 or during the earlier siege in 1529, to celebrate the defeat of the Ottoman attack of the city, with the shape referring to the crescents on the Ottoman flags. This version of the origin of the croissant is supported by the fact that croissants in French are referred to as Viennoiserie, and the French popular belief that Vienna-born Marie Antoinette introduced the pastry to France in 1770.

Another legend from Vienna has the first bagel as being a gift to King Jan Sobieski to commemorate the King's victory over the Ottomans that year. It was fashioned in the form of a stirrup, to commemorate the victorious charge by the Polish cavalry. The veracity of this legend is uncertain, as there is a reference in 1610 to a bread with a similar-sounding name, which may or may not have been the bagel.

After the battle, the Viennese discovered many bags of coffee in the abandoned Ottoman encampment. Using this captured stock, Franciszek Jerzy Kulczycki opened the third coffeehouse in Europe and the first in Vienna, where, according to legend, Kulczycki himself added milk and honey to sweeten the bitter coffee, thereby inventing cappuccino."

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The black crescent was adopted by the American army to indicate food rations in WWI and is still used today.

25 posted on 07/31/2013 8:32:37 PM PDT by Flag_This (Real presidents don't bow.)
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To: berdie; Ciexyz; ConorMacNessa
well, truly speaking the Crescent moon is an Ottoman Turkic symbol

the Pakis are schizophrenic idiots as they are neither turkic nor arabs though they try to pretend to be the latter (while real Arabs laugh at them)

the Islamic flag is black, plain black

I would think that Arabs would like something that mocked their Turkic conquerors...

38 posted on 08/01/2013 3:15:30 AM PDT by Cronos
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