Iggy the Crusader Victimized by a Misguided Crusade [Holy Cross Univ]

National Review ^ | March 23, 2018 | Jonah Goldberg

[C19fan]

A liberal, the old joke attributed to Robert Frost goes, is someone too broad-minded to take his own side in a quarrel.

Something similar is going on with Catholics. Just ask Iggy the Crusader, who for years served nobly as the mascot of the College of the Holy Cross.

Holy Cross is throwing Iggy under the bus.

This was a necessary step in the larger effort to purge the school of any association with the Crusades. “The visual depiction of a knight, in conjunction with the moniker Crusader, inevitably ties us directly to the reality of the religious wars and violence of the Crusades,” the Reverend Philip Boroughs, president of Holy Cross, explained in a statement.

[C19fan]

Pope Urban called for the Crusades after a cry of help from the Byzantine Empire. In 1071, a Islamic Turkish group called the Seljuks destroyed the Byzantine army, with help from a traitor among the Greek ranks, in modern day eastern Turkey near Lake Van. Byzantine lost most of the Anatolia the main source of their military power. Western Christendom response was from a strategic perspective a counterattack against four centuries of Islamic aggression. The great Arab/Islamic scholar Bernard Lewis notes the Crusades were a mere after thought for the Arab world. They had much bigger things to worry about from Mongol invasions and the Shia Fatimid Caliphate based in Egypt. The great Saladin is lauded in the Sunni world for destroying the Fatimids. His success against the Crusades was an afterthought.

[Da Coyote]

Yup, guess that the current group of clowns running that university just did not get the news about WHY the crusaders did what they did.
And which sordid goat boinking group of slime started the war.
Glad I want to Catholic Schools when they were actually Catholic.

[WayneS]

“The visual depiction of a knight, in conjunction with the moniker Crusader, inevitably ties us directly to the reality of the religious wars and violence of the Crusades,” the Reverend Philip Boroughs, president of Holy Cross, explained in a statement.

...and you point is?

[C19fan]

Don’t tell the so-called priests running Holy Cross that the feast day of Our Lady of the Rosary is held as a memorial the the Christendom victory over the Turks at the great naval battle of Lepanto.

[IrishBrigade]

‘Glad I want to Catholic Schools when they were actually Catholic.’

the elites in the Western world has clearly tired of Christianity; it will be excised in all public formats and placed in a museum of some sort, along with the remnants of the American Confederacy; personally, I have little skin to lose in either of those domains, but I grieve for the many people who do...

[paterfamilias]

While they’re at it, they should change the name of the school to “College of the Non-Religiously-Affiliated Vertically Elongated Plus Sign”