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New Zealand: Crusaders rugby team drops sword from logo because of Christchurch mosque massacres

Dec 1, 2019 2:00 pm By Robert Spencer

Oh, was it Crusaders who attacked the Christchurch mosques? I hadn’t realized.

Changing this logo, and certainly the team name is not long for this world, is a sign of the acceptance of the idea that Westerners should be ashamed of the Crusades. The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS proves otherwise. It demonstrates from primary sources that the Crusades were not a gratuitous imperialistic venture, but a late and small-scale defensive reaction to 450 years of imperialist jihad aggression that had conquered and Islamized what had been half of the Christian world, and threatened the life of the Christian empire, the Byzantine empire.

The West continues its cultural self-abnegation in the face of the chimera of “Islamophobia,” a propaganda neologism designed to make people ashamed of defending themselves and their homeland against a newly aggressive Islamic jihad.

“Rugby: Crusaders keep name but change logo after Christchurch massacre,” Reuters, November 29, 2019:

Super Rugby’s most successful team the Canterbury Crusaders said on Friday they will retain their name but change the logo of a sword-wielding knight following a brand review in the wake of a mass shooting at two mosques in Christchurch in March.

The March 15 shooting in the team’s home city killed 51 people and prompted calls for changes to the branding and name, which are associated with religious wars between Christians and Muslims in the Middle Ages.

The team, who won their third successive title and 10th overall earlier this year, announced a review in June and said at the time they would drop the knight logo but keep the Crusaders name for the 2020 Super Rugby season due to commercial and licensing agreements that could not be altered.

The review was initiated to determine if they retained the name into the 2021 season, when Super Rugby is being reduced to 14 teams and a new broadcasting agreement takes effect.

“While the main focus of the brand review was not the club’s name, it did consider whether alternative name options would more accurately reflect the club’s identity and story,” the team said in a statement on Friday.

“Ultimately, it was decided that no name better represented the club’s commitment to living its values – crusading for social improvement and inclusiveness, and crusading with heart for our community and for each other – than Crusaders did.”…

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  1. Lightship Chaplain says

    Dec 1, 2019 at 2:05 pm

    I for one have grown tired of apologizing for the western (civilization) male for all the worlds ills!

    • JMB says

      Dec 1, 2019 at 3:28 pm

      Guilty as charged Your Honour! We the Crusaders represent what remains of what used to be outpost of white British Church of England civilisation in the South Pacific, and, yes, the name Crusaders represents our former imperialist glories. It does not matter that the Crusades were a millennium ago, we are still guilty. It does not seem to matter that our business is all about playing good Rugby and we do our province (and NZ) proud. It does not seem to matter that that Christchurch city has a huge non-white ethnic population. No it does not matter that their are indigenous Maoris in the team because nothing, and absolutely nothing will ever satisfy the requirements of PC.

      • FYI says

        Dec 1, 2019 at 3:57 pm

        You know who else had weapons?
        The Maori

        The patu,the mere,the wahaika,the taiaha,the kotiate.

        Surely the Maori would appreciate the importance of a warrior and his weapons.

        And also,the Vikings,who were pagans and they had SWORDS
        {I have seen them in museums}:they are part of European History.

        So it is ok for non-Europeans to have swords{japanese buddhist samurai,pagan romans,MUSLIM saracens} but it is NOT OK for Christian knights to have swords..

        • mortimer says

          Dec 1, 2019 at 4:17 pm

          Politically correct message: EUROPEANS, DISARM YOURSELVES and then OPEN THE GATES. THEY ARE NOT DANGEROUS … (not much) … DISREGARD THE MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN!

          sarc/off

    • Del says

      Dec 2, 2019 at 3:23 pm

      Have they officially changed their name to the New Zealand Pussy Hats yet? Pink or rainbow infidel uniforms?

      • Paul J says

        Dec 2, 2019 at 10:24 pm

        I reckon the Christchurch Dhimmis would be a good name for them, with a knight waving a white flag as their logo.

  2. Frank Anderson says

    Dec 1, 2019 at 2:07 pm

    I can’t help wondering why they do not cave in completely and change the name from crusaders to jihadis and be done with their surrender. Look what happened when Jews surrendered?

  3. FYI says

    Dec 1, 2019 at 2:20 pm

    Go WUSSIES!

    How about a bouquet of pansies instead of a sword while they are at it?

    What a laughing stock!

    Forget about religion or politics for a moment:these men are simply craven WUSSIES.

    To take away the sword is to emasculate the warrior and warriors are SUPPOSED to have weapons.

    From now on please let the Canterbury Crusaders be called the WUSSIES…do they need safe spaces,’man’ sized tissues too,time out to discuss the need for greater ‘inclusiveness’ and get in touch with their inner snowflake?

    What;are they social workers now as well?

    Are they mice or men?Mice it seems.

    • JMB says

      Dec 1, 2019 at 2:58 pm

      In other words you are suggesting that this football team should have replaced the sword with a Kalashnikov instead!

      Also, in this whole debate it should be remembered that it was an Australian who committed the massacre, not a New Zealander, and as for the sword, is that not a symbol of Islam?

      • FYI says

        Dec 1, 2019 at 3:06 pm

        I gather there is a Rugby team called the Saracens in the UK with as its logo a star and crescent moon;will they have to change their logo?

        I’d say not..

        And you are right about the killer being an Australian and not a kiwi so really it wasn’t the fault of any New Zealander:yet there is this belief that the kiwis were somehow responsible when they were not.

        In any case,this is ridiculous:this is pandering to political correctness.

        • JMB says

          Dec 1, 2019 at 3:14 pm

          It gets even worse; Most New Zealanders were against this change of logo. But the New Zealanders who do support the change also would like to see the name changed from the Crusaders and also more Maori (Indigenous) input into a new name and logo. They also think that the Crusades were part of our British (anti-Islam) history that needs to be forgotten or even revised.

          The name Canterbury Crusaders rolls of the tongue very easily and perhaps the Crusader part of the name has associations with the Province of Canterbury and the City of Christchurch which were of course founded by Anglican pioneers.

        • FYI says

          Dec 1, 2019 at 3:17 pm

          Japanese samurai had SWORDS

          muslim Saracen warriors had SWORDS

          Christian knights had SWORDS

          Roman Legionnaires had SWORDS

          Spartan Hoplites had SWORDS

          Warrior=Soldier+SWORD

          What is wrong with a SWORD, even as a symbol?

          Nothing.

        • simpleton1 says

          Dec 1, 2019 at 4:31 pm

          A New Zealand north Canterbury Rugby Club, also named after the Saracens.
          https://www.sporty.co.nz/saracensrugby

          Should have special games in their different grades every year;- Crusaders vs. Saracens. 🙂
          Crusaders are very strong provincial club in NZ.

    • Leon Degney says

      Dec 1, 2019 at 11:30 pm

      Rats more like it.

  4. Lydia Church says

    Dec 1, 2019 at 3:28 pm

    Perfectly stated Robert!

    And as the lights continue to go out all over the world…

    • JMB says

      Dec 1, 2019 at 3:31 pm

      +1 Lydia

  5. simpleton1 says

    Dec 1, 2019 at 4:25 pm

    The Crusaders new logo, has become very “woke” full of culture and a bit extra for this very progressive world.
    Like another “pajero” which Mitsubishi years ago got wrong in the Spanish world.
    https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2019/12/122085.html
    Once seen, can not be unseen.

    • Lilith Wept says

      Dec 2, 2019 at 9:45 pm

      There’s a NZ man that does videos, Crossing the Rubicon .
      You should give him a watch. He’s planning to move from YouTube to BitChute….cops showed up,his house twice, blocked off the whole street, came armed, to “talk to him about his videos”
      He’s one of those who are telling the truth about NZ and the way non moslems, conservative people are being treated. .

      • gravenimage says

        Dec 2, 2019 at 9:54 pm

        Appalling, Lilith.

  6. revereridesagain says

    Dec 1, 2019 at 4:49 pm

    How sensitive. So, will they also put pressure on all Muslim organizations to leave the scimitars out of theirs?

  7. mortimer says

    Dec 1, 2019 at 4:59 pm

    Political correctness = Crusaders disarmed. Of course, there were Crusaders who were unarmed. They were called ‘THE CHILDREN’S CRUSADE’. Historians believe most of them ended being sold into Islamic slavery.

    That is what will happen to Europeans as a result on the current Children’s Crusade of Pope Francis the Naïve, the Pollyanna Pope.

    Brenton Tarrant, a 28-year-old personal trainer and body builder from NSW, Australia cannot be blamed for the Crusades. Tarrant was certainly not a Crusader, nor a Christian, nor a soldier and not very intellectual either. He was an ordinary fellow. A previous generation of Australians supported a ‘white Australia’ policy in immigration. Tarrant was nostalgic for the former Australia that will never return thanks to politically correct politicians who changed the immigration criteria with or without the consent of Australians.

    Tarrant should have blamed the white politicians, rather than their invited guests.

    Australian and NZ politicians caused the changes in demographics and they probably did it sneakily without consulting the voters.

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 1, 2019 at 6:01 pm

      Spot on reference to the Children’s Crusade, Mortimer.

    • Peter35 says

      Dec 2, 2019 at 8:27 pm

      Take a bow Mort, and thanks for writing the most sensible comment.
      So many people here on JW STILL haven’t woken up to what islam is–who moslems are, and have been for all their 1400 years!

  8. gravenimage says

    Dec 1, 2019 at 6:05 pm

    New Zealand: Crusaders rugby team drops sword from logo because of Christchurch mosque massacres
    ………………..

    Yes–this is grotesque. The attacker wasn’t even a New Zealander. But Muslims don’t care–they will use anything to get Infidels to submit to dhimmitude if we let them.

  9. D Austin says

    Dec 1, 2019 at 6:44 pm

    Just bringing New Zealand into line with the British no knives policy! Which isn’t working so well in Britain…see recent London Bridge stabbing.

  10. Eur says

    Dec 2, 2019 at 2:35 am

    Saudi Arabia will follow suit and remove the sword from its flag ?????

  11. jca reid says

    Dec 2, 2019 at 7:30 am

    Pathetic. Never thought a bunch of Kiwis such pussies! Crusaders v. Saracens battles in the Middle East total around 17. The Number in Europe total over 400, keeping the Saracen invader out. They ought to ask the Greeks & Eastern Europeans who suffered Islamic Rule for 4Centuries or so, ” What’s it really like?”

  12. Kirsch says

    Dec 2, 2019 at 8:14 am

    If you remove the sword from the logo, in the next few years you will change the name . If you change the name of the team then in the years following, they will want the name of the city changed from Christchurch …and on and on. Do not retreat one step! Islam will see your retreat as success, and will be emboldened.

    • Kirsch says

      Dec 2, 2019 at 8:20 am

      PS the All Blacks played like a bunch of pussies in the World cup semi final and were completely rolled by an average english team. If New Zealand is becoming the Sweden of the south pacific, then this is no surprise. What happened to being “Staunch As Bro”?

      • Peter35 says

        Dec 2, 2019 at 8:32 pm

        With a ‘leader’ like Jacinda Ardern….what can I say. Doesn’t look good for little NZ.

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 2, 2019 at 11:55 pm

      True, Kirsch–Muslim demands will never stop at this.

  13. Charleslavin says

    Dec 3, 2019 at 12:10 am

    As Churchill said …..never surrender ….and he wasn’t fighting the devious …

  14. NZBloke says

    Dec 3, 2019 at 12:39 pm

    A satirical piece on the name change, which might amuse:

    https://thebfd.co.nz/2019/12/press-statement-from-the-canterbury-rugby-union-satire/

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 10, 2019 at 10:21 pm

      Thanks for that link.

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