Have faith! I hear their money is drying up, and they’ll be doing a come-back tour next summer!
What about Saudi Arabia’s flag? It has ‘There is no God but Allah and Mohammed is his messenger.’ written right on it! Underscored with a sword, yet! Blatant anti-Christianism, and a threat of violence!
Splitters!
That’s for sure ! Being One With The Void was soothing, much better than this messy matter and energy stuff ! And Time ! Don’t get me going about that bastard…
Yeah, what we really need now is a uniter, not a divider.
Supposedly they’re planning a Thermal Convection Never Sleeps reunion in a couple of eras, that is if they can come to terms with the Arabian Plate.
You’re gonna just love this Rune:
Yeah, well, if that happened here I’d bring in a nice, juicy BLT to work every single day. Or maybe a ham sandwich.
The thing I don’t get about Muslims being offended by references to the Crusades is… didn’t they win most of 'em? If I were a Muslim, especially one pre-disposed to anti-Western sentiment, I’d be all about remembering the Crusades.
“Dear Mr. Blair. There are too many bloody Counties. Please remove three to seven of them. PS, I am not a crackpot.”
And a patron saint that “we can all identify with”? Which patron saints, exactly, will Muslims identify with?
I was obviously taught by 1970s-style commiesymp liberal hippies (disguised as matronly postwar-era underpaid public school teachers) because we were taught that the Crusades were, you know, a bad thing for the West to do–an example of religious intolerance, a waste of resources, an excuse for all sorts of excess like hookers following the knights with the cross on their dresses*, and never mind the tragedy and folly of the Children’s Crusade. Only silver lining was that the Dark Ages peasants encountered civilizations far advanced of their own and brought back all sorts of technological goodies and ideas.
Either the Crusades are taught very differently in Europe and/or the European Muslims perceive it to be so.
- OK, OK, even in the 70s they didn’t teach little kids about the hookers–I learned that from this book, from the 1852 incarnation of Cecil. I think that this book was #1 in that thread of books every Doper owns or has read. Even in 19th century Europe the Crusades weren’t something to be happy about.
Wait a tick… it was Pangaea that split up, into Gondwanaland and Laurasia, right?
I don’t think anyone here is stating that the Crusades were all well and good; I think people are stating that demanding that Britain change its flag and patron saint because they have some connection to events of nearly one thousand years ago.
Lemme ask this: if the NAACP started agitating that the U.S. revamp its flag to remove the red, white, and blue from it, as all were colors used by the Confederate flag, would your reaction be, “Well, that’s probably a very sensible idea.” or “Wow. What bleeding idiots.”?
The only reason they haven’t done this is that no one had, until now, thought of it. You have damned well ruined it for everyone.
Ahhhh. The Victim Industry.
Sometimes it really disturbs me that one of the most efficient ways of gaining political/social power is to loudly proclaim your ‘victim status’. Other times I just drink.
Are we still at war with Laurasia?
They were disguised as “camp followers” in my history class.
Fucking Big Bang.
We are at war with Laurasia. We have always been at war with Laurasia.
Dammit, I was going to post that!