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Air Force Unit Drops Nickname After It’s Labeled Offensive to Muslims
The Gateway Pundit ^ | August 3, 2024 | Jared Harris

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.

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TOPICS: Conspiracy; Military/Veterans; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: crusader; military; muslims; offensive; royalairforce; submissive; weak; woke
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This is utterly disgusting having to bow to these towel heads. If Kamala Harris gets in she'll cancel everything as to not offend Muslims, Mexicans, and blacks. The founders never wanted her type to be president.
1 posted on 08/04/2024 8:47:58 AM PDT by Macho MAGA Man
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To: Macho MAGA Man

so muslims are dictating how our military operates now? Swell- how long before islam takes over the nation?


2 posted on 08/04/2024 8:50:28 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: Macho MAGA Man

Conquered.


3 posted on 08/04/2024 8:50:46 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (I think women should get out of women's sports before they get hurt.)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

Coming to America.


4 posted on 08/04/2024 8:50:56 AM PDT by Dacula (Catholics against Kamala)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

More capitulations to the ‘jihadists’. That’s an offensive name and many Americans were killed under its banner. Scrooge the Woke traitors.


5 posted on 08/04/2024 8:53:14 AM PDT by tflabo (Truth or tyranny)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

The fact that there are muslem communities in Western nations offends me. Japan has the right by not letting them emigrate in.


6 posted on 08/04/2024 8:53:53 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again," )
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To: Macho MAGA Man

Who Told/Ordered the unit to drop the nickname ?


7 posted on 08/04/2024 8:54:52 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Bob434

Don’t blink!!


8 posted on 08/04/2024 8:56:25 AM PDT by Ronald77
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To: Macho MAGA Man

A 1000 complaints shouldn’t matter. Much less 1!!


9 posted on 08/04/2024 8:58:14 AM PDT by albie
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To: Macho MAGA Man

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.


10 posted on 08/04/2024 8:59:14 AM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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....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”.


11 posted on 08/04/2024 8:59:30 AM PDT by TokarevM57
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Muzzies have long memories——they will obliterate any episode
in history that they believe reflects badly on them——if we let them.


What was the purpose of the Christian Crusades?

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.


12 posted on 08/04/2024 9:00:15 AM PDT by Liz (This then is how we should pray : Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name . )
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Coming to America.

It has already arrived. Many sports teams including Wheaton College, a Christian school, have dropped the name Crusaders.

13 posted on 08/04/2024 9:00:23 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: Macho MAGA Man

Some woke retard made the decision.

That’s who is in charge of the military btw.


14 posted on 08/04/2024 9:01:36 AM PDT by Bayard
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To: Macho MAGA Man
I think it's high time OUR Air Force did something about the name of this hateful, hurtful, and offensively name jet! C'mon, Austin...there's LOTS of renaming you can do to make sure we don't offend anybody. Why stop at base names?


15 posted on 08/04/2024 9:02:13 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward Snowden)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

We are all French now. They really know how to surrender.


16 posted on 08/04/2024 9:02:24 AM PDT by Kudsman (Baby Lives Matter)
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To: TokarevM57

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


17 posted on 08/04/2024 9:03:44 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: Macho MAGA Man

They went after Bush 2 for using the word Crusade.


18 posted on 08/04/2024 9:04:47 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Bob434

If you’re a brit.........


19 posted on 08/04/2024 9:07:22 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

.....beautiful picture of a Navy A-7 “Corsair II”....a close relative of the F-8......but it ain’t no F-8......


20 posted on 08/04/2024 9:08:16 AM PDT by TokarevM57
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