BBC Warns Football Fans Dressing as Crusaders ‘Offensive’ to Muslims

Breitbart ^ | 6/4/2016 | DONNA RACHEL EDMUNDS

[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.”

[G Larry]

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.

[QT3.14]

Guess BBC won't be showing these reruns!

[Sirius Lee]

[cloudmountain]

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)

[Doogle]

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

[dsrtsage]

Think I will start a business selling crusades gear

[thecodont]

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

[Enchante]

"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...."

[Enchante]

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.

[Jmouse007]

GOOD!

[SaraJohnson]

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

[trebb]

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

[dljordan]

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

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