Ironic As All Heck
Don Singleton has a report of probably the most ironic things I have heard of lately. A Briton was ambushed in Yemen by gunmen and dragged from his car. Then they spotted an emblem on his car window. It was a sticker from the Portsmouth Football Club. So the gunmen were big soccer fans then? Nope, the sticker featured a prominent crescent moon and a star. So the gunmen thought the Briton was a practicing Muslim and let him go.
The symbols on the sticker were based on the symbol used by the chancellor to King Richard I, William de Longchamp, who adopted the crescent moon and star to honor the Third Crusade.
Too funny.
Blogosphere, Religion | Gaius Wednesday, 24 May , 2006
By Blackhawk, Wednesday, 24 May , 2006 @ 8:09 pm
And how long will it be until we see a demand to change this symbol as being offensive to Islam?
By Gaius, Wednesday, 24 May , 2006 @ 8:28 pm
I expect it any second….