Group blasts Marine Corps for reviving 'Crusaders' name and symbols

msnbc.com ^ | April 18, 2012 | Kari Huus

[Free ThinkerNY]

A recent decision by the Marine Corps to reinstate "Crusaders" as the name of its Fighter Attack Squadron 122 — replacing "Werewolves" — and adopting the red cross of the medieval Knights Templar was blasted as unconstitutional and willfully ignorant by a civil rights group Wednesday.

"I don’t know that the Marine Corps could do anything more to fuel the cause of jihad," said Mikey Weinstein, founder of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, a nonprofit organization that advocates church-state separation. "It will directly end up taking lives and maiming members of our military." Advertise | AdChoices

VMFA-122 based out of Beaufort, S.C., used the Crusaders symbol from 1958 up to 2008, when Lt. Col. William Lieblein pointed out that imagery invoking the Christian conquest and colonization of Muslims during the Middle Ages was counterproductive to U.S. soldiers based across the Arab and Islamic world.

[PAR35]

“Mikey Weinstein...Lt. Col. William Lieblein”

Hmmm. A pattern among those who pander to Muzzies?

[GOYAKLA]

Mikey will eat anything.
BIG BIG laugh at LINK
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGfR7H3SSdc

[SeaHawkFan]

There was a time when VA-115 (A-6 squadron) was known as the Arabs. Their slogan was “The Arabs get theirs at night.” A creative wife of a squadron member came up with the slogan, “The arabesques get theirs at night, too.”

[Colorado Cowgirl]

Charles Martel (23 August 686 – 22 October 741), also known as Charles the Hammer, was a Frankish military and political leader, Charlie was the original “Hammer Time”.
He is remembered for winning the Battle of Tours in 732, in which he defeated an invading Moorish army and halted northward Islamic expansion in western Europe. He was also the father of Pepin the Short and grandfather of Charlemagne.

[robowombat]

The Squadron slogan should be the Crusader battlecry-Deus vult (Latin for “God wills it”) was the cry of the people at the declaration of the First Crusade by Pope Urban II at the Council of Clermont in 1095.[1] The phrase appears variously as Deus vult (Classical Latin), Dieu le veut (French), Deus lo vult, etc.
Deus lo vult is the motto of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem, a Catholic order of chivalry.

[Ramius]

It didn’t eliminate the threat.

Well, that's not entirely fair. They did a splendid job of pushing the Muslim hordes back out of Europe... all the way to Jerusalem. They did pretty well with what they had. The money eventually ran out, though. The ninth (I think...) crusade was doomed from the start and never really engaged, mainly because there was no money.

[Ramius]

What was wrong with the Crusades?

Not a darned thing. :-)

[robowombat]

I love it, Jewish Activists who still think it is 1938 in the US. Don't these people grasp that the ‘Christian Right’ is the most pro-Israel and generally pro-Jewish part of the gentile US population. Certainly more pro-Israel than many Reform Jews here are. I know Elie Wiesel was somewhat stunned when introduced to a conclave of pro-Zionist members of the ‘Christian Right’ but he gratefully accepted the support. What is Weinstein’s fixation, that everyone should be a good secular liberal.

[TFMcGuire]

The Muslims would think nothing of murdering this man on the basis of his name alone.

They would be doing strong, freedom loving men from the US and Israel a service by taking out our garbage.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***Mikey Weinstein is a Jewish activist with a hard on for the Christian Right.****

I bet he would really wet his pants if they used the US Army National Guard 45th division patch.

By the way, that is an American Indian symbol.

[windcliff]

Go Marines!!!

[Dead Corpse]

The hell???

I got out in 1994... Didn't hear a word of it then. Did my last few months in El Toro. Also gone...

Maybe I'm a jinx...

[null and void]

*sigh* and we won’t either.

[Psalm 144]

I find ‘pork eating Crusader’ very unsettling.

It completely ignores beer.

[ansel12]

No, if they want to show up and defend Weinstein, they can do it on their own.

[Jack Hydrazine]

You could always look up the creator of the patch and ask if they could re-do it just a little so it shows the Crusader holding a pork chop in the left hand and a beer in the right. LOL!

[wardaddy]

Yep....the fabulous thunderbird

[Idaho_Cowboy]

I don’t know that the Marine Corps could do anything more to fuel the cause of jihad

---

I’m sure the enemies will feel better when the squadron dropping bombs on them is named the “Sensitivity to Arabs Squad” instead of crusaders. What a bunch of B.S. Don’t forget to tell them to dip the bullets in lard.

[SECURE AMERICA]

I don’t know that the Marine Corps could do anything more to fuel the cause of jihad,” said Mikey Weinstein, founder of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation

The you are an IDIOT..
jihad exists because the cult of islam dictates that non believers be killed. The evil death cult needs no urging to kill us. It is what they live for.
I love the new name Crusaders...... Marines DO LEAD THE CRUSADE against ALL EVIL and it does not get anymore evil then islam...........

[Ramius]

I’m not so sure. I think eventually... People will get it. But the carnage between now and then will be off the charts.