It’s Political Correctness gone Mad! IV – Football Kit Crusaders.

Thanks to A Tangled Web for this link about Muslims getting offended bya football kit. Now most of my PC gone mad posts are on guilty white liberals gone mad, or raving ‘Daily Mail’ types rallying against an imaginary threat. This time it’s one Muslim, so maybe PC gone mad is not the right title. But you can bet your bottom lira the PC crowd would back this man.Apparently Inter Milan’s football kit offends Muslims. It has on the shirt a red cross on a white background, a symbol of the City of Milan. Not unreasonable you might think for a Milanese football team. But when playing in Turkey it was interpreted, at least by lawyer Baris Kaska, as a symbol of the crusades. Apparently this guy is an expert in European law and is demanding damages and the result (Fenerbahçe 0 – 3 Inter) being annulled. Now I am no fan of European law but I struggle to see how this could be illegal.It also reminded Mr Kaska of Knights Templar, and while they did use this symbol I am not sure they had much relevance to Turkey, being more involved in Jerusalem. Although it was Turkey’s Ottoman Empire which ruled Jerusalem for many years. “It made me think immediately of the bloody days of the past” ah yes how the memories of the Knights Templar, disbanded in 1312, must come flooding back. I often find the very name Normandy offensive, reminding me as it does of the “bloody days of the past” in which my English ancestors were oppressed. I might sue them to change their name.I hate to think what Mr Kaska would make of me. As an Englishman I fly the flag of St George, a red cross on a white background. (The flag of Milan is actually that of St Ambrose) Or what would he make of Georgia which has five such symbols on its flag. Or Genoa. I can’t believe these offence-takers are so ridiculous. The Crusades are ancient.And of course PC only applies to past Western atrocities. The Crusades are bad because Europeans attacked the Middle East. Should we forget that Mohammed used force to expand Islam. The Islamic conquest of Spain? The last ditch defence of Vienna in 1529 and 1683. That’s right, Christian Europe was defending itself from the advancing Islamic Ottoman Empire almost 400 years after the last crusade (ignoring Indiana Jones of course).

So in summary. This man is over sensitive and mad. And ignore PC brainwashing that says only Europe had empires, religious crusades, slavery or anything else bad.