From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@datamann.com)
Date: Sat Mar 30 2002 - 19:03:14 MST
spike66 wrote:
>
> dwayne wrote:
>
> >it occurs to me that as the red cross is perceived in some quarters as being a
> >christian organisation, due to it's use of the cross as a symbol, and as the
> >muslims have set up the red crescent society...
> >
> Is it bitterly ironic that the cross is a symbol of the most cruel form
> of execution ancients could devise, and the symbol euphamistically
> referred to as a "crescent" is symbolic of an Arabic sword used
> to lop off heads of infidels.
>
> Red smiley it is. {8-]
Well, the Red Cross is a Swiss emblem, which is the origins of its
policy of being neutral and immune to lawful military attack. Note,
though, that the origins of the swiss cross is actually an arrangement
of four cannons meeting at their breaches, pointing outward in all
directions in a sign of defense. Prior to that they were using the funky
Maltese cross, with the ends flared outward.
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