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>>>God forbid the Muslims get offended,
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>>I'm not a Muslim and I'm offended by my tax dollars being spent to have a unit called "The Crusaders." Crusaders were folks who marched across Europe and killed people (possibly including my ancestors) who didn't belong to their religion.
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>Boo hoo. Good thing you're not offended by Islamists worldwide murdering anyone not Islamic (and a lot of their own too). Lets get offended at the US Military.
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>Join the other side.
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>>Aside from this particular imagery, there's a problem in the US military of religious intolerance with non-Christian members being harassed about it. Religious imagery has no place in the military.
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>>Tamar
What about musical group The Crusaders? Should their music be banned and all CDs and records burned?
"The creative process is nothing but a series of crises." Isaac Bashevis Singer
"My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all." Oscar Wilde
"If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too." W.Somerset Maugham
