[Beave Meister]

Too F#@*ing bad. I find the burqa offensive, and the nightshirts the men wear in the street to, in fact I find everything about their culture offensive.....now where can I find a chain mail Hauberk and white tunic with the Crusaders Cross in red? Wonder if Amazon carries that...time to go shopping.

[LibWhacker]

Sure thing, muslims can pose with Christian heads they’ve chopped off, but display a cross on your shirt and YOU’RE the antagonist. Time for a cleansing.

[Mrs. Don-o]

The Crusades were defensive warfare for the purpose of re-taking lands of the Byzantine Middle East which had been invaded and occupied by the Islamic aggressors, securing Christian places of pilgrimage, and lifting the Islamic yoke from the shoulders of the indigenous Christian people.

The Crusades were, I say again, defensive --- comparable to the landing of the Allies at Normandy during WWII.

People say, "well, weren't they conquering the Holy Land?" Truth be told, they were trying to RE-conquer it, as Muslims had been waging war and slaughtering pilgrims in the region for hundreds of years. The Muslims had already conquered 2/3 of historic Christendom by fire and sword! God's Battalions - The Case for the Crusades by Rodney Stark lays out the history.

Historian Thomas Madden puts it this way:

It is often assumed that the central goal of the Crusades was forced conversion of the Muslim world. Nothing could be further from the truth. From the perspective of medieval Christians, Muslims were the enemies of Christ and His Church. It was the Crusaders’ task to defeat and defend against them. That was all.

They sure don't teach that in school, do they!?

[Gamecock]

Well we don't want them offended, now do we?

And just in case you missed it, </sarc>.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

So if the Crusaders attacked Jews, Muslims and Pagans, why are the BBC staff only worried about offense to Muslims?

[CDB]

It'll be a cold day in H*ll when this rugby team is "forced" to change its name. The Crusaders (originally known as the Canterbury Crusaders) are a New Zealand Rugby Union team based in Christchurch, New Zealand

[Revel]

It is my Understanding that the Crusaders were the only thing that put a stop to round one of the invasion of Islam. A time in which Muslims murdered, raped, tortured, and enslaved the native people where ever they went. Notice how there is no mention of any of that and also how it is the same thing they are doing today.

[Rurudyne]

Let them be offended.

The Crusades were not only justified, it’s a shame that Europe didn’t finish the job.

[MS.BEHAVIN]

[Chode]

[Rebelbase]

[Beave Meister]

[terycarl]

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”.

If it hadn't been for the Crusaders, Europe would have been Muslim for the last 900 years. The Crusaders were chasing Muslims out of Christian areas that they had captured. If Charles Martel and his ilk had a few modern weapons, Muslims would be history.

[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]

[Doogle]

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

[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...."

[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.....