Today’s New Hampshire Union Leader is reporting on yet another attempt at the destruction of tradition and pride in the name of "tolerance." Reporter Riley Yates writes
MANCHESTER – The school board will review the mascots of Central and Memorial high schools, after a former student complained they are offensive to some minorities..Last night, a fight that has boiled at Dartmouth College was taken to the Manchester School District, as 2005 Central class president Ibrahim Elshamy charged that Central’s American Indian and Memorial’s Crusaders herald a history that shouldn’t be celebrated..Elshamy, who now attends Dartmouth, said both symbols are hurtful and should be changed.
Now, let’s stop right there. If Mr. Elshamy felt so "hurt" by such symbols, why didn’t he say or do anything at the time? He was the class president, for crying out loud! NOW he brings it up, while in college? You don’t suppose that he isn’t doing this now just to stir controversy and cause yet another chip in the America he and his ilk wish no longer existed, do you? Do you suppose he was approached while at college by some outside group that specializes in such stuff? Yeah- I think so too.
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Consider how he characterizes the historical events that may or may not be related to the roots of the school mascots. Again from the UL article:
Indian and civil rights groups have fought Indian mascots in professional and collegiate sports, while the Crusades is a "dark spot" in Christian history, he said.."Ostensibly under the name of religion, a fanatical army swept across continents, brutally engaging in genocide against Jews, Muslims, Orthodox Christian, women and children," said Elshamy, who has set up a Web site, HateMascot.com, to lobby against the two schools’ symbols.
This is pure hogwash. What he might want to remember is that the Crusaders "ostensibly" pushed the Islamic hordes that had overrun Europe back into their own lands– a similar situation, in some ways, to what we see happening today.
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The story goes on to report that the issue will get looked at by a committee set up by the school board. Central High School is the oldest in the state. It has had the American Indian mascot for a long, long time. Up until now, it has been fine– actually having been studied already once before. Someone should tell Mr. Elshamy to get a life. Unfortunately, this type of manufactured outrage and legal activity probably is what his life’s work is, anyway. Another professional looking to make a living by being "offended."
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