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BBC Warns Football Fans Dressing as Crusaders ‘Offensive’ to Muslims
Breitbart ^ | 6/4/2016 | DONNA RACHEL EDMUNDS

Posted on 06/04/2016 5:15:33 PM PDT by Beave Meister

The BBC has warned English football fans not to dress as crusaders when attending the Euro 2016 tournament this summer as they might cause offence to Muslims.

The advice comes via their ‘iWonder’ website, aimed at a younger audience, which asks such pressing questions as “Was Shakespeare a feminist?” and “How green is my commute?”

Posing the question: “Is it wrong to dress as a crusader for an England match?” the answer appears to be a resounding “yes”.

“Crusaders were the perpetrators of violent attacks across Europe and the Middle East on Muslims, Jews and pagans,” the website intones, suggesting that fans may simply want to don the English flag instead, as “this has nothing to do with crusaders or what they stood for”.

And although it can’t help musing: “The English flag used to have connotations with far-right nationalism,” it is forced to concede that: “Today the flag is flown by local authorities and individuals in a purely patriotic sense.”

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Society; Sports
KEYWORDS: bbc; british; crusaders; england; euro; europe; football; islam; liberals; muslims; soccer; uk
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To: Beave Meister

Dear BBC,

The Crusades were in response to 400 years of Muslim invasion, killing, raping, and pillaging.

So, we don’t care whether Muslims are offended.


81 posted on 06/04/2016 7:35:45 PM PDT by G Larry (Avoiding the Truth-Hillary's only expertise)
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To: Beave Meister; All
Guess BBC won't be showing these reruns!


82 posted on 06/04/2016 7:38:28 PM PDT by QT3.14 (USA facing assisted-suicide by the Left)
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To: Beave Meister

83 posted on 06/04/2016 7:42:58 PM PDT by Sirius Lee (If Trump loses, America dies)
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To: Georgia Girl 2
Good point. After 1000 years of marrying their 6 year old first cousin its a miracle they can find their way to the stadium.

The Saudi royal family has that problem BIG TIME. You can't see the heart problems. The King has the BEST heart clinic in the world on one of his 747s.

What you DO see with the inbreeding is the eyes...one eye is pointing northwest and the other keeps changing direction. :o)

84 posted on 06/04/2016 8:04:02 PM PDT by cloudmountain
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To: Beave Meister

...gang raping a 10 year old boy or killing your daughter because she puts a bow in her hair offends me....bugger off!!


85 posted on 06/04/2016 8:15:52 PM PDT by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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Think I will start a business selling crusades gear


86 posted on 06/04/2016 8:17:07 PM PDT by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

A secular world can’t make sense of the Crusades.


87 posted on 06/04/2016 8:25:41 PM PDT by thecodont
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To: Beave Meister
"Show me just what Muhammad brought that was new and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached."

[Wikipedia] "The controversial comment originally appeared in the 7th of the 26 Dialogues Held With A Certain Persian, the Worthy Mouterizes, in Anakara of Galatia,[4] written in 1391 as an expression of the views of the Byzantine emperor Manuel II Palaiologos, one of the last Christian rulers before the Fall of Constantinople to the Muslim Ottoman Empire...."
88 posted on 06/04/2016 8:33:10 PM PDT by Enchante (Shrillary Clinton: Hamas puts its rockets and ammo in schools and hospitals because Gaza is small)
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To: Revel

nooo not exactly... Round One, arguably, ended centuries earlier at Tours, 732 AD:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Tours

In any case, the several much later “Crusades” were part of centuries of depraved Islamic onslaught countered in only limited ways and places by inadequate Christian responses. Islamic armies conquered huge swathes of the Middle East, South Asia, North Africa, and Southern Europe. The very limited “Crusades” in response are all that the vicious Islamists and their western enablers wish to talk about.


89 posted on 06/04/2016 8:41:42 PM PDT by Enchante (Shrillary Clinton: Hamas puts its rockets and ammo in schools and hospitals because Gaza is small)
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To: Beave Meister

GOOD!


90 posted on 06/04/2016 10:48:51 PM PDT by Jmouse007 (Lord God Almighty, deliver us from this evil in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, amen.)
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To: Beave Meister

Given Isis has committed genocide against Christians in the Middle East and Africa, dressing like a Muslim is offensive to Christians.


91 posted on 06/04/2016 11:40:50 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: Beave Meister

Tell them to stop dressing as Muslims - that’s offensive to Crusaders.....


92 posted on 06/05/2016 3:26:53 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: ZULU

“I am sick and tired of craven westerners apologizing for their past.”

Americans don’t have to apologize, our president does that for us.


93 posted on 06/05/2016 5:14:59 AM PDT by dljordan (WhoVoltaire: "To find out who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.")
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