The Cross Insults Islam! Red Cross Urged to Drop the Cross as its Symbol, it's so ....."Crusades"

You can't make this stuff up. In the UK, the Labour minister is urging the Red Cross to drop one of the most recognizable icons the world. It insults Islam. If the cross is "undermining the work of the humanitarian organisation," why provide "humanitarian" aid to anti-humans? Why nourish people who kill, persecute, force conversion on non-believers?

Islamic supremacism is not just territorial. It's .......... everything.

Calls for Red Cross symbol to be axed over links to the Crusades via Europe News hat tip Kenny S

Labour minister has sparked controversy by claiming that an alternative symbol is needed for the Red Cross because of the logo's supposed links to the Crusades.

Foreign Office minister Chris Bryant said that the historic emblem risked undermining the work of the humanitarian organisation.

His intervention came as MPs debated the adoption of the 'red crystal' - a diamond-shaped badge - to avoid the religious connotations of the cross and crescent symbols currently used by the international body.

But critics said the new insignia was a sop to political correctness and warned that it may be the first step towards it replacing cross and crescent. Others fear that it may not be as widely recognised on the battlefield.

'It is, in an effort not to be contentious, possibly too anodyne to serve its purpose,' Tory MP John Hayes said.

Philip Davies, a Tory backbencher, said: 'At face value to the layman it seems at best a solution looking for a problem and at worst another example of extreme political correctness.

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'There is also a risk of confusion with many different symbols, and that terrorists may exploit that to mask themselves when carrying out attacks,' he added.

The founding Conference of the Red Cross Movement in 1863 adopted a red cross on a white background – the reverse of the Swiss flag – as the emblem of the voluntary medical personnel who assisted the wounded on the battlefield.

It was never intended to have any religious meaning and is thought to have been intended as a tribute to traditionally neutral Switzerland, which hosted the conference.

However, the symbol unintentionally raised suggestions that it was somehow linked to the Hospitallers, a military order which took part in the Crusades, the centuries long series of military campaigns waged by Christians from Europe.

Subsequently, a red crescent emblem was adopted in tandem.

Mr Bryant told the Commons: 'The reference to the Crusades is... not lost to some people which, of course, anybody involved in the Red Cross would wholly deprecate.

'The truth of the matter is that it has been difficult in some places for us to ensure that these connotations of a religious war or a religious crusade don't undermine the work that the Red Cross or Red Crescent is able to do.'

The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement hope that the neutrality of the red crystal will help improve protection for casualties, military medical services and humanitarian workers.

It was chosen because it is devoid of religious and other partisan connotations.

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Comments

[vinny]

poetic justice-they refused Jews to place the star of david on their ambulances.

[mustang]

Whats next, banning the state flags of Florida and Alabama?? Those are the Cross of St Andrews! The symbol of the crusades.

[chsw]

Bring back Magen David Adom!

BTW, Brooklyn's Red Crescent volunteer ambulance group was the only volunteer ambulance group not to send EMT's and vehicles to the WTC on 9/11.

[defender]

But I thought they revere Jesus!!!??? They tell us that frequently.

[IndieJones]

Is it just me or does anyone else here think that the muslims are acting like vampires?
Well, Every Christian in the UK should wear a really BIG CROSS around their necks...that will rid the UK of their problems.

[Doda McCheesle]

Chow- do you have any links to source(s) for that info "Brooklyn's Red Crescent volunteer ambulance group was the only volunteer ambulance group not to send EMT's and vehicles to the WTC on 9/11."

I've never heard that one before. Of course, I've heard this one:

"According to the Washington Post (quoting the Jersey City Police Department), some Muslims in ... Jersey City, New Jersey celebrated the 9/11 attacks from their rooftops (see Serge F. Kovaleski and Frederick Kunkle, "Northern New Jersey Draws Probers' Eye: Many in Area Feel Wrongly Targeted," Washington Post, September 18, 2001, p. A6)."

[seeteufel]

So Mr. Bryant, ex-clergyman, member of the Fabians, Amnesty International and a variety of other socialist causes thinks the Red Cross is offensive. The question I would like to ask him if it is more offensive than the photo of him in underpants that he sent to a gay dating site or even as offensive as making a small fortune from flipping two of his tax-payer funded second homes.

[Brad]

Christians (we) are WEAK ! We are so busy trying to be a friend to all, the Message of Jesus is being lost.

I am ashamed. I am ashamed at the politially correct, ultra-liberal movement that is trying to be everyone's best friend instead of standing up for the founding principles of our nations (Canada, USA, UK, South America)...CHRISTIAN BASED NATIONS! When we remove our heritage we remove that which identifies us. Do you really think Islamic countries give a shit about equality....look at their treatment of women, of criminals, of Christians attempting to share the message of the gospel! I am not anti-muslim...I am pro Jesus and pro-national identity. I don't want our nations to become more pacifist...they get mowed over by any force that shows itself. It is time to push back and tell these people to move out of here if they don't like it.