Posted on 08/04/2024 8:47:58 AM PDT by Macho MAGA Man
An air unit formed in the days when pilots were considered knights and gentlemanly combat ruled the sky has been stripped of its historical nickname after fears it could be offensive to Muslim communities.
The Royal Air Force’s 14 Squadron was forced to drop the “Crusader” title after an official complaint was filed against the unit.
According to a news report, a single complaint sparked a campaign against the nickname. Aviators and crewmen were told to remove all instances of the name around their hangars.
“We have to take down every mention of Crusaders from our base,” one aviator told the Daily Mail.
(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...
so muslims are dictating how our military operates now? Swell- how long before islam takes over the nation?
Conquered.
Coming to America.
More capitulations to the ‘jihadists’. That’s an offensive name and many Americans were killed under its banner. Scrooge the Woke traitors.
The fact that there are muslem communities in Western nations offends me. Japan has the right by not letting them emigrate in.
Who Told/Ordered the unit to drop the nickname ?
Don’t blink!!
A 1000 complaints shouldn’t matter. Much less 1!!
The Crusader tank was an important British tank during WW2. About 20 survive, some in museums. If a Muslim complains, I suppose these tanks will have to be renamed.
On a more serious note, when there is no pushback it’s human nature to demand more and more. And there is never any pushback against Muslims.
....oh, for Pete’s sake....! how stupid is this.....oh, wait!! The United States Navy had a great fighter in it inventory several decades ago....can we retroactively erase that fighter’s name from history....??
....”The Vought F-8 Crusader is a single-engine, supersonic, carrier-based air superiority jet aircraft designed and produced by the American aircraft manufacturer Vought. It was the last American fighter that had guns as the primary weapon, earning it the title “The Last of the Gunfighters”.
Muzzies have long memories——they will obliterate any episode
in history that they believe reflects badly on them——if we let them.
The Crusades were organized by western European Christians after centuries of Muslim wars of expansion. Their primary objectives were to stop the expansion of Muslim states, to reclaim for Christianity the Holy Land in the Middle East, and to recapture Muslim territories that had formerly been Christian.
It has already arrived. Many sports teams including Wheaton College, a Christian school, have dropped the name Crusaders.
Some woke retard made the decision.
That’s who is in charge of the military btw.
We are all French now. They really know how to surrender.
the left erasing any history it doesn’t like- then they turn aroudn and accuse the right of being ‘revisionists’- many on the left are mentally ill
They went after Bush 2 for using the word Crusade.
If you’re a brit.........
.....beautiful picture of a Navy A-7 “Corsair II”....a close relative of the F-8......but it ain’t no F-8......
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