My latest in PJ Media:
Our long national nightmare is over: all decent, properly woke people will be relieved and grateful that the one-time bastion of racism and Islamophobia in Indiana, Valparaiso University, is dropping its Crusader nickname and mascot. According to Valparaiso’s interim president Colette Irwin-Knott, “the negative connotation and violence associated with the Crusader imagery are not reflective of Valpo’s mission and values, which promote a welcoming and inclusive community. This is the decision that best reflects our values and community.” Yes, of course. Everyone knows that defending Western civilization, and being proud of those who did so, is out of the question these days. Nothing could be more unwoke.
Valparaiso student president Kaitlyn Steinhiser elaborated on the decision by saying: “The Crusader does not [represent the university] effectively. Valpo is and always has been a faith-based institution, and we want to make sure our symbolism is in alignment with our beliefs and speaks to the core values of the Lutheran ethos. At Valpo, we strive to seek truth, serve generously and cultivate hope. We do not believe having the Crusader as our mascot portrays these values.”
In any case, all this shame over the Crusader name, and expiating renunciation, is completely unwarranted. As The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS shows from primary sources, the Crusades were not, as the good people at Valparaiso University evidently assume, an unprovoked exercise of racist proto-colonialism directed against a peaceful Muslim world.
The Crusades were in reality a late, small-scale defensive response after 450 years of jihad attacks had conquered and Islamicized what had previously been over half of the Christian world.
Armies animated by the jihad ideology (or that eventually justified their actions by recourse to it) had occupied much of the Middle East, North Africa, and Spain — as well as Persia and much of India — centuries before a Crusade was even contemplated. They had entered France and besieged Constantinople, the capital of the Christian Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire, several times.
The Seljuk Turks’ victory over the Byzantines at Manzikert in 1071, when they took the Emperor Romanus IV Diogenes prisoner, opened all of Asia Minor to them. In 1076, they conquered Syria; in 1077, Jerusalem. The Seljuk Emir Atsiz bin Uwaq promised not to harm the inhabitants of Jerusalem, but once his men had entered the city, they murdered 3,000 people.
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Wellington says
So woke which means craven and stupid. Wussies everywhere these days.
mgoldberg says
Actually… it could be worse. Someone could suggest that they use the motto- ‘Jihadists’, you know, since that just means they’re looking for their own flaws in their spiritual searching .
And though I’m being facetious, just how far away from such a reality would it be, when the croaking politically correct peddle their wares about such concepts to the student body in the near future?
revereridesagain says
Also willfully ignorant of history, anti-individualist, whitewashing of the savagery and oppression practiced as preached by Islam, craven liars and distorters of historical facts, callously indifferent to the millions who suffered under Islamic aggression and rule, and I hope I haven’t left anything out.
My high school football team’s nickname was “The Red Devils”. So far as I know, no one’s tried to cancel them yet. Just sayin’.
Patrick Kelley says
Spot on! Islamism has become integral to leftism, Socialism, Marxism, Communism. All attempting to erase history, create chaos, accuse Whites/Jews of racism, being Islamophobic, being bigots, of which, was created in Muslim Student organizations across America. Funded by CAIR and the Muslim Brotherhood.
Key members of CAIR and the Muslim Brotherhood also fund members of Congress and the White House, while dumping millions into colleges and universities, even high schools.
william carr says
As we know the Muslims handed out sweets to the people they conquered, so there was no violence involved. Oh, sorry I mixed it up, it was the Muslims who handed out sweets after they heard about 9/11
Tyler says
Your sarcasm stretches far with the title in mind. The woken cancel culture is a plague on us all. The time is well overdue for another great crusade.
Tony Naim says
“You can’t fix stupid”
As if the crusaders existed in a vacuum.
How ignorant! Complacency will prove to be extremely costly ( in terms of blood and treasure) when it is too late.
roberta says
Western suicide is by 1000 cuts. Really strange to see that the only ”civilization” that can take us down is our own, and those traitors within are always hard at work (at that).
STJOHNOFGRAFTON says
Wokeium is the opiate of the jackasses.
https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2021/02/08/overdosing-on-wokeium-n2584340
gravenimage says
+1
gravenimage says
Woke At Last: Indiana’s Valparaiso University Cancels Crusader Nickname and Mascot
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More dhimmitude.
Dapto says
Call them ISIS or Alqaeda
Giacomo Latta says
If Valparaiso has a tendency to play against liberal arts universities then it should change its nickname to ”The Trumps.” That should get the fecal matter scared right out of them.
Clifford Fodor says
“Valparaiso University, is dropping its Crusader nickname and mascot. According to Valparaiso’s interim president Colette Irwin-Knott, “the negative connotation and violence associated with the Crusader imagery are not reflective of Valpo’s mission and values, which promote a welcoming and inclusive community.”
To avoid “the negative connotation and voilence associated with the Crusader imager” I would suggest the name for their football team: The Flower Children.
Check Burry says
Or Panzies? Just tryin to help here.
Donovan Nuera says
Holy Cross University in Massachusetts last year decided to drop their Crusader name and mascot too. Idiots!
Donovan Nuera says
Correction: Holy Cross dropped the Crusader knight as the mascot but kept the name in 2018 decision. Their economic professor said the Crusader was a poor mascot “as Catholics were 4 for 12 in the Crusades…. and it was genocide”!!!! [So I guess relatively speaking…Eisenhower and our troops genocided the invading Germans???]
Check Burry says
Yes I recon we Allies were rather unpleasant to the Nat Socialists, shame on us for liftin a finger. Or was it two, V.
Joseph P Gavron says
AMEN
gravenimage says
+1
Check Burry says
I guess Chance Vought got it wrong too, when they named their Jet Crusader, today it would have to be Tweety Bird, or Honey Sucker.
James Lincoln says
Yes, Check.
The F-8 Crusader, one of the most capable fighters of the post-World War II era, would now have a “woke” name…
Check Burry says
Yes its got me goin through other famous aircraft names,
Hellcat, would now be Warm pussy
Tigercat would be softyfurry
Super Sabre would be Blunt blade
Douglas Destroyer would be Now lets talk about this first.
Hurricane would be Summer wind.
Thats enough triv for today.
But lets stay Vigilantie!
Joseph P Gavron says
So be it…Was the airwing’s motto in the middle east “Death from Above”? True Crusaders.
Andrew says
I wonder what gender the Principal identifies as, or what courses on History they teach at this sad ass excuse for a University.
History of all cultures around the World are indeed dark, awful, and generally not too loving towards each other, but to change it because some backward followers of a Fascist Religious Cult may feel offended then fuck em, as I am offended that they would change history to fit in with their virtue signalling nonsense.
Check Burry says
Love it Andrew.
Giacomo Latta says
”we want to make sure our symbolism is in alignment with our beliefs and speaks to the core values of the Lutheran ethos”
The Lutheran Church, also known in Sweden as the Church of Sweden, is perfectly fine with foreigners entering the country and burning down its churches. Apparently the Valparaiso apple has not fallen far from the Lutheran tree.
Yohannes says
What so Lutheran by letting off la ilaha ilawloh mamad rasuluwloh and consider it a-ok?
exdemexlib says
Still waiting for any woke demands to name-change Yale University, named for Elihu Yale, a slave trader and founding contributor.
(and while they’re at it, they can change the Yale lock brand too, even though it has no connection to Elihu Yale … )