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<blockquote data-quote="Bruce_ma gooshvili" data-source="post: 939976" data-attributes="member: 74121"><p>There was a rugby club in Wales called the Crusaders. </p><p></p><p><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crusaders_Rugby_League" target="_blank">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crusaders_Rugby_League</a></p><p></p><p>Critically, they didn't have armed horseman running around as entertainment and weren't based in a town called Christchurch. New Zealand is a bit of a beacon in terms of treatment and integration with indigenous peoples, so they don't need any finger waving from me. </p><p></p><p>But calling them Knights and keeping the horses, or calling them Crusaders but quietly dropping the horses (my preference) would both be appropriate options from my perspective - even though the Crusades are very distant from New Zealand in both time and geography. </p><p></p><p>I think an appropriate comparison would be if the Saracens in England introduced the call to prayer as their theme song or got cheerleaders called 'The Jihadis'. I don't think sections of the population would be comfortable with either of those. But just called Saracens? No problem at all.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bruce_ma gooshvili, post: 939976, member: 74121"] There was a rugby club in Wales called the Crusaders. [URL]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crusaders_Rugby_League[/URL] Critically, they didn't have armed horseman running around as entertainment and weren't based in a town called Christchurch. New Zealand is a bit of a beacon in terms of treatment and integration with indigenous peoples, so they don't need any finger waving from me. But calling them Knights and keeping the horses, or calling them Crusaders but quietly dropping the horses (my preference) would both be appropriate options from my perspective - even though the Crusades are very distant from New Zealand in both time and geography. I think an appropriate comparison would be if the Saracens in England introduced the call to prayer as their theme song or got cheerleaders called 'The Jihadis'. I don't think sections of the population would be comfortable with either of those. But just called Saracens? No problem at all. [/QUOTE]
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