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September 22, 2014 in religion gone awry | Tags: crusades, jihads
This morning I was behind a car whose bumper sticker read,
IMAM AZIZ MUHAMMAD HIGH SCHOOL
Home of the Jihadis
As I got closer and we waited at the light, I realized I’d misread it. It said,
ARCHBISHOP RIORDAN HIGH SCHOOL
Home of the Crusaders
Whew. That’s all right, then.
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September 22, 2014 at 1:09 pm
Andrew Hidas
That’s funny, with food for thought besides, but a serious question lies within, too, it seems: Do we know the inspiration for Riordan’s “Crusaders” moniker? If it is indeed based on the medieval Christian crusaders, then cheesh, the school should probably revisit the matter every bit as much as that football team in Washington D.C. should revisit (and revise!) their current mascot…
That’s the exact parallel that the former Washington resident in the car (my wife) drew.
It’s a Catholic school, so I’m sure the Crusaders they named the team after are the ones who waged holy wars for the Catholic Church. In any case, the association is inescapable. –AZM
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September 22, 2014 at 1:23 pm
joannevalentinesimson
Jeez, that’s weird. It’s all context, isn’t it?!
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September 22, 2014 at 7:27 pm
Elz Curtiss
Well played.
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September 23, 2014 at 6:18 am
Miki Leeper
We have forgotten (and don’t 0particularly enjoy remembering, that 600 years ago, it was the Christians who were the ‘extremists, butchering people in the name of their faith. Such actions were then, and are now, about power. The modern ‘jihadis’ are no more true Muslims, than were the Crusaders, and those who burned their fellow Christians, true Christians in the Middle Ages and Renaissance.
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September 26, 2014 at 11:43 am
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