Thursday, October 13, 2005

I wish I'd said that!

The inimitable Mark Steyn on St. George's Cross and its "offensiveness" to Muslims:
Thus, Chris Doyle, director of the Council for Arab-British Understanding, already feels Ms Owers's [cross] ban is insufficient. The cross of St George, he explains, is offensive to Muslims because it was carried by English crusaders in the 11th century...

So Mr Doyle wants England to find a new flag which "is not associated with our bloody past and one we can all identify with". How about we simply swap with the Yanks? Give Crusader Bush the cross of St George and England can have the Stars and Stripes? The stars would be the 50 shards of a pork scratching crushed underfoot by a Dudley council official, with 13 horizontal yellow streaks representing the prostrate backbones of the nation.

Amen! Patriotism isn't the "last refuge of the scoundrel," but of the beleaguered and belittled. H/T to Loose Canon.

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