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- amabaie, on 06/11/2009, -3/+131Good grief. Now we'll have to realign all our roads so they don't intersect at a right angle!
- EMFK, on 06/11/2009, -3/+72Idiot.
- MichaelCorleone, on 06/11/2009, -5/+68Just because this symbol had a connection to a few wars almost 1000 years ago doesn't mean you need to worry that people will get offended. You think the people receiving the aid give two ***** about the symbol from which its coming from?
- franklymister, on 06/12/2009, -5/+59If you read the history of the Crusades, you won't find a one-sided genocide, as the Muslim world would like you to believe. You'll find a war - just like countless other wars, filled with brutality and suffering on both sides. Not much different than, say, the earlier Islamic invasions of Europe under the Umayyad caliphate.
It's time we stopped apologizing for the Crusades. - WordsnCollision, on 06/11/2009, -11/+63And they wonder why the BNP is gaining support.
- Doc123, on 06/11/2009, -3/+46Wow
- inactive, on 06/11/2009, -14/+56This is even dumber than trying to get the Redskins to change their names because some Indian tribes get offended.
- Noein, on 06/12/2009, -3/+42So the vampires have infiltrated our government and made their first move...
- aristotle0dude, on 06/12/2009, -5/+41It's even more ridiculous than that. Christian Europe did not start that war. They were invaded centuries before launching the crusades which were a "counterattack" to slowdown or halt the invasion of southern Europe.
You would also be speaking arabic and any atheists would be stoned to death if the crusades had not been launched. - DrJen, on 06/11/2009, -1/+35Please don't give these people any suggestions...
- Lust4Me, on 06/12/2009, -1/+33So the symbol for the Red Cross shouldn't be a...red cross? wow.
- Boogiedude, on 06/11/2009, -6/+35Bryant was ridiculed by the press in 2003 when he was discovered to have solicited anonymous sex and posed wearing only underpants on a gay dating site, Gaydar, whilst an MP.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/columnis ... - CaptainNoPants, on 06/12/2009, -1/+30The Red Cross refers to the Crusades? News to me.
Friggin ridiculous. - redwolfwalker, on 06/12/2009, -5/+33Correct, and to this day the radicalized version of Islam continues it's crusade against believers from all faiths and against agnostics and atheists as well.
- aristotle0dude, on 06/12/2009, -8/+32I think I'm going to vote with my dollars and not visit the UK until they get rid of those politically correctness nazis.
Living in a society with multiple cultures means that some people will be offended by others. Stop giving in to the bigoted politically correct brigade. - kingpinmicky, on 06/12/2009, -4/+25Somehow I get the feeling that even if all the Red Cross associations switched to the Red Crystal/Diamond you'd see a lot less of a push to change the Red Crescents to Red Crystals/Diamonds...
- MonkeyNews, on 06/12/2009, -2/+23One very important point - pretty much NOBODY of any faith or race has ever complained about the symbol.
The only person complaining is this ***** numbskull who should be fired immediately because he is a greater risk to the continued peaceful co-existence of all races and cultures in this country that the BNP.
- bwhite, on 06/12/2009, -0/+20The team is named after a type of potato, right?
Why would the indians care? - MonkeyOverlord, on 06/12/2009, -2/+21Let's not forget the other religions which suffered even worse than Christianity during Islam's rise. Zoroastrianism was systematically put to the sword by the Muslims. It went from being one of the largest religions in the world, to being one of the smallest organized religions because it was systematically persecuted.
Modern leftists like to point to Roman Catholic forced conversions in the new world as evidence that all religions are the same, but Islam is unrepentantly doing today what it did when it was first founded. All major Christian denominations have abandoned forced conversion in keeping with Luke 9, a teaching that had to be ignored in order to justify the harm caused on occasion by the Roman Catholic Church in the new world. - frazw, on 06/12/2009, -1/+18No-one should have to apologise for actions they didn't commit. I'll apologise for things I did but not things that have been done by a group of religious people I don't identify with and possibly have no blood relation to anyway. Even if there is a bloodline between myself and someone who took part in the crusades that doesn't mean I have cause to apologise. That is a ridiculous notion.
Judge ME on MY actions not on some long dead ancestors'. - 955701, on 06/12/2009, -1/+17just rotate 45 degrees. It's still a cross but not a religious one. Please remit logo design payment of $25000 to 955301, PO Box 955301, Albertville, MN, 55301
- diwen, on 06/12/2009, -0/+16But... How will future generations recognize health packs?
- daschupa, on 06/12/2009, -1/+15Red's a little offensive, can we go with more of a purple or mauve?
- havek23, on 06/12/2009, -1/+14The red cross with all equal-length sides is universal and not religious at all. I bet the roots of that equaling medicine/help wasn't even related to Christianity. Christianity's cross has a longer bottom anyways which makes it a completely different symbol. That's like saying a C and G are the same letter or that an M is a W.
- justok, on 06/12/2009, -0/+13Don't care what shape the intersections are, I *always* pray when I try to cross.
- zoziw, on 06/12/2009, -0/+12They should have called the organization "The Red Plus" from the beginning and avoided all of this nonsense.
That's all it is...a plus sign...get over it. - Samurai77, on 06/12/2009, -1/+13I'm all for changing it to blue diamonds, or pink hearts, or yellow moons, or orange stars, or green clovers.
- Solkre, on 06/12/2009, -0/+12The plus symbol in math has always offended me too!
- Bloodwine, on 06/12/2009, -0/+11Most of the time it is not the Indians who protest, but guilty white people.
A local public university in my area recently changed their Indian-based naming schemes to more generic and bland names as to not offend anybody. This resulted in the changing of the names of the athletic teams as well as a lot of the buildings on campus and things of that nature.
The hilarious thing is several local Native Americans were upset at the change, because they were proud of what the unversity provided the community and that their name was attached to it. Also, there was a Native American museum on campus that primarily displayed artifacts of the local tribes. So far, that hasn't been scrapped. YET. - inactive, on 06/12/2009, -1/+11Does it seem to anyone else that people are looking for new ***** to be offended about? I wish I had that kind of time.
- MacParrot, on 06/12/2009, -0/+10Well, the Russets feel totally left out
- GreatSunJester, on 06/12/2009, -5/+15You can not force them to change the Red Crescent! How dare you be insensitive to their cultural feelings! For shame.
- twiztidsinz, on 06/12/2009, -1/+11Or the clouds and bushes are the same...
- inactive, on 06/12/2009, -0/+10Fix'd
http://img31.imageshack.us/img31/7641/redx.gif - butterpat, on 06/12/2009, -0/+10I think it should be changed to a big red maple leaf :)
- mysmartypants, on 06/12/2009, -1/+10How about a big red middle finger as the new symbol.
- UrbanRacer, on 06/12/2009, -4/+12BNP is short Britsh National Party, its a far right party that have links to nazi groups.
They gained 2 seats in the EU elections because the majority of the british public didn't vote as a way of protest due to the expense's scandal. Unfortunatly it left the door open for retards like the BNP to get in.
if you want to see how retarded these people are watch this video
http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-6145793 ... - atm259, on 06/12/2009, -3/+11So then when we meed help we could do this hand gesture:
http://media.timeoutnewyork.com/resizeImage/htdocs ... - redhelix, on 06/12/2009, -0/+8I'm just as big an atheist as the next guy, but the Jerusalem Cross of the Crusades looks absolutely nothing like the Red Cross symbol.
This labor minister should consider doing some homework. - inactive, on 06/12/2009, -3/+11i have no idea what the bnp is.
- a3r0, on 06/12/2009, -4/+12From the first sentence of the Wikipedia article:
"The British National Party (BNP) is a far-right and whites-only political party in the United Kingdom..."
Yeah, they're wonderful people. - Quaterni0n, on 06/12/2009, -0/+8Maybe they're thinking of the Templars' cross. But even that was different because of the serifs.
- trizzleatl, on 06/12/2009, -0/+7People just need to get over themselves.
- tgc1, on 06/12/2009, -0/+7Do these ***** idiots have anything better to do? *****!
- sexybobo, on 06/12/2009, -0/+7We had an entire league called the Negro league.
- angusm, on 06/12/2009, -1/+7The debate over whether the red cross should have an alternative 'neutral' symbol goes back a number of years. The red cross was selected originally because - by being the inverse of the national flag of neutral Switzerland - it represented neutrality, and so (in theory) guaranteed the protection of those using it. If the cross, or another symbol used by the Red Cross (such as the Red Magen David Adom in Israel, or the Red Crescent in the Arab world) is seen as a partisan symbol, then there is a valid case for changing it.
Of course, the bigger problem may be that the Red (Whatever) increasingly doesn't offer much protection: both state and non-state forces have attacked vehicles or personnel marked as neutral, and both state and non-state actors have used the various symbols illegally to disguise military vehicles or personnel.
Incidentally, the diamond is a traditional symbol representing the female genitals. I wonder if anyone has told Mr Bryant or the ICRC that? - alfredscakes, on 06/12/2009, -5/+11Once again I had to check the calendar to check it wasn't April Fools Day and Revorke wasn't winding me up - Beep Beep - LoL!
How on earth have these loony PC idiots remianed in power so long - answer: the lethargy of the UK electorate. Hopefully things are starting to change and people are waking up to the idiots that run our country.
I'd also like to know how many millions were spent coming up with a red diamond symbol.
- askantik, on 06/12/2009, -0/+6Zoroastrianism is interesting-- it's a shame they never talked about it in school. I even took a class in college about religion, and it was never mentioned. But then again, they didn't mention a lot of things-- Sufism, Jainism, Zoroastrianism, Shinto, etc. that the wonders of Wikipedia have let me learn about. Ehhh...
- Kriegg, on 06/12/2009, -1/+7Give me a freaking break.
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