Group blasts Marine Corps for reviving 'Crusaders' name and symbols

msnbc.com ^ | April 18, 2012 | Kari Huus

[Free ThinkerNY]

A recent decision by the Marine Corps to reinstate "Crusaders" as the name of its Fighter Attack Squadron 122 — replacing "Werewolves" — and adopting the red cross of the medieval Knights Templar was blasted as unconstitutional and willfully ignorant by a civil rights group Wednesday.

"I don’t know that the Marine Corps could do anything more to fuel the cause of jihad," said Mikey Weinstein, founder of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, a nonprofit organization that advocates church-state separation. "It will directly end up taking lives and maiming members of our military." Advertise | AdChoices

VMFA-122 based out of Beaufort, S.C., used the Crusaders symbol from 1958 up to 2008, when Lt. Col. William Lieblein pointed out that imagery invoking the Christian conquest and colonization of Muslims during the Middle Ages was counterproductive to U.S. soldiers based across the Arab and Islamic world.

[null and void]

VMF 122! I grew up on their flightline!

[JRandomFreeper]

Eff the whiners.

/johnny

[Jack Hydrazine]

Have they gotten their panties in a wad over the Crusader patch, too?



Or how about this t-shirt?

[max americana]

“I don’t know that the Marine Corps could do anything more to fuel the cause of jihad,” said Mikey Weinstein

STFU you whiny limp-wristed lib.

[ansel12]

Weinstein is on a Crusade against Christianity and the military, and he has some aggressive defenders here at FR, few of them, but nasty ones.

[Feckless]

I agree.

It should be: Pork Eating, Mooslim Killing Crusaders

[Da Coyote]

I’m a retired USAF fighter pilot type, but d*mn, I LOVE the marines.

As for that protest group...I consider them targets.

[null and void]

[MileHi]

Get some!

[Paladin2]

""I don’t know that the Marine Corps could do anything more to fuel the cause of jihad,""

I think it's about time to call out the Jihadists be they at the NYT or in the darkest caves of Pakistan.

[madison10]

What the heck is “unconstitutional” about a group being able to choose what symbol they are going to use? It WAS a free country. People need to stop being such pansy babies.

[factoryrat]

The United States Marine Corp Crusaders: Our answer to jihad!

The radical muslims don’t like it when the other shoe drops. Oh well, they’ll get over it, or if they don’t, will have to dead with a bunch of pissed off Marines with a serious axe to grind. Trust me, the muslims don’t want to go down that road.

[ConservativeInPA]

Perhaps it will embolden our Marines to violently kill more of the vile Muslim bastards and strike fear in their hearts. This psycho babble about winning hearts and minds has never worked. Quickly and grotesquely destroying our enemies works. Examples; Japs, Germans and Italians.

[mnehring]

I fail to see the problem other than we don’t arm Marines with swords any longer beyond ceremonial.

[fidelis]

Don’t knuckle under aviator Marines! I LOVE the name and logo!
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Where can I write to express my support for these guys?

[Charles Martel]

Mikey Weinstein

I knew this story would involve Mikey. What a worm.

[icwhatudo]

“the Christian conquest and colonization”

How about the Christian counterattacks?

[mckenzie7]

I wonder what Charles Martel did to cause the moslems to attack.

Probably something he said!

[mckenzie7]

I wonder what Charles Martel did to cause the moslems to attack.

Probably something he said!