This is a discussion on Cricket team changes name after complaints from Muslims and Jews within the Political Correctness Forum forums, part of the Coffee Room category; "Middlesex County Cricket Club has announced that the Middlesex Crusaders will play next season as The Panthers. Vinny Codrington, Middlesex ...
"Middlesex County Cricket Club has announced that the Middlesex Crusaders will play next season as The Panthers.
Vinny Codrington, Middlesex chief executive, confirmed that the club had received "one or two" complaints from Muslim and Jewish communities concerned that the name was a reference to the medieval Christian crusades against other faiths.
He said some people found the name "rather upsetting" but denied that the change was being made for reasons of political correctness.
He added: "For example, one of our former presidents was Jewish and he didn't particularly like the name, although he just got on with it.
"We wanted more kids to pick up a cricket bat, that's why it was devised. We were on a crusade to get children into cricket."
Middlesex Crusaders cricket team changes name after complaints from Muslims and Jews - Telegraph
Next it will be the Germans complaining about the Kent Spitfires ....
either do it or don't. But I got places to be
I'm now worried for my local football team, The Birmingham Terror Bomb Collective.
Couldn't they have just explained why they chose Crusaders as their name? As long as it didn't go something like "we wanted to piss off the Muslims" then surely they're on safe ground. I mean that word does exist in a different context.
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This is ridiculous.
If I went to a Muslim or Jewish country and demanded change because it offended my Christian views they would ignore me or laugh.
I have already set up a new Team to further inter community relations ... Cromwell's Crusaders , a series of friendly matches starting with Shamrock United and the Taliban Terriers may prove problematicOriginally Posted by Dr The Evidence
Yes they could have explained why but that would need an element of common sense .... sadly that was abolished in 1997.
either do it or don't. But I got places to be
Aah the Abolishment of Common Sense Act '97. I remember it well. One of Labour's finest achievements, only topped by the Can We Really Start A War For No Reason? white paper of 2004.I have already set up a new Team to further inter community relations ... Cromwell's Crusaders , a series of friendly matches starting with Shamrock United and the Taliban Terriers may prove problematic
Yes they could have explained why but that would need an element of common sense .... sadly that was abolished in 1997.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
E. B. White
"To be honest, you think a/c jump the fence, I say the whole college jump the fence"
The wonder that is Angelcountry
"If we're going to have a police state, at least orgainise it properly!"
Guy Outside the Chilcott Enquiry as he was led away by police for causing a 'disturbance' (thanks to LA I now know his name is Michael Culver)
Chancellor
Having just watched yesterday's episode of "Christianity: A History" where reporter Rageh Omar was looking at the medieval anti-Muslim crusades and implications for today, and the way that George Bush used the word 'crusade' after the 9/11 attacks, I can quite see why there's the sensitivity.
Not that I agree with the way that many Muslims hang on to history for so long and keep applying it to today, but the history of the subject and how it's still affecting relationships between the Islamic and Christian people centuries later is fascinating and I think important to understand.
I'm sure the series will be repeated, but yesterday's episode is also available on Channel 4's catch-up service at Christianity: A History | Watch Online | Free Catch-Up on Channel 4 Shows. Worth looking at to see more of the whys and wherefores of much of the current trouble.
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I watched it also.
Many times throughout the episode, I got angry at the Muslims for carrying on history for so long.
Chancellor
Quite, but the fact is that they do, it's part of their culture, so we have to be aware of that and accommodate it if we're to try to resolve the many differences.
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised 'for the good of its victims' may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us 'for our own good' will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." -- C.S. Lewis
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Of course.
I do not think I will get into the discussion of how to resolve the matter though. I always look like a bad guy
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