An air unit formed in the days when pilots were considered knights and gentlemanly combat ruled the sky has been stripped of its historical nickname after fears it could be offensive to Muslim communities.
The Royal Air Force’s 14 Squadron was forced to drop the “Crusader” title after an official complaint was filed against the unit.
According to a news report, a single complaint sparked a campaign against the nickname. Aviators and crewmen were told to remove all instances of the name around their hangars.
“We have to take down every mention of Crusaders from our base,” one aviator told the Daily Mail.
“Squadron associations will have to be renamed. It is like we’ve been canceled,” he continued. “Somehow, now, in 2024, ‘Crusaders’ is an offensive term. Previously, nobody was offended.”
There is speculation that the complaint was filed by a disgruntled and seemingly vindictive RAF member.
Regardless of how the complaint originated, the implications are causing an overhaul of the squadron’s identity and a major blow to the unit’s esprit de corps.
“If they’d have asked members of the squadron, rather than dictating this change, almost everyone would have been in favor of retaining ‘Crusaders,’ because it is so much part of our history,” the aviator told the Daily Mail.
Nigel Farage, a British patriot and the “Father of Brexit,” sounded off against the decision, calling it a “woke surrender.”
“So 14 Squadron, the Royal Air Force, involved in two world wars and busy today with intelligence and reconnaissance,” Farage said in a Facebook reel after the decision’s announcement, “their nickname is the Crusaders. But a senior boss in the Royal Air Force has decided that name now has to be dropped because it might cause offense to Muslims.
“I wonder whether in Saudi Arabia they’re bending to our culture and our way of life,” Farage continued. “I wonder even more deeply why we are literally giving in on virtually everything.”
Gets worse when wokes affect 100 Years of heritage.
RAF 14 Squadron knows as “The Crusaders” formed 1915 in action in WW1 over Iraq & Palestine.
WW2 & Iraq since
One woke somebody complained Crusader name insulting to Muslims.
Name no more & Woke won. pic.twitter.com/dnbalxXZQ6— Finish Brexit. (@Trev_Forrester) August 1, 2024
The 14 Squadron Association’s history of the unit shows it was involved in much more than World Wars I and II.
It lists the unit’s creation date as late 1914 to strengthen the RAF. Due to shortages in trained pilots, aircraft and gear, the new force was assembled with both experienced and half-trained aviators.
The squadron fought over Egypt and Sinai, and even contributed in Arabia to help the efforts of Col. Thomas Lawrence (more famously known as Lawrence of Arabia) and his Arab rebels.
The unit continued to fight until the Ottoman Empire’s 1918 capitulation.
In remembrance of the men’s desperate fight in the Middle East, the unit was given the nickname of “Crusaders,” along with a winged crusader badge applied to the squadron’s aircraft.
In World War II, the unit reprised its role as a desert combat unit by squaring off against Axis forces across North Africa and Abyssinia. The squadron also assisted in the Mediterranean theater as Allied forces invaded fascist Italy.
The 14 Squadron’s warfighting capabilities were also seen in 1999’s Kosovo War, where aviators flew sorties against the Serbs and their military infrastructure. In later years, the unit would also assist during the United Kingdom’s military operation in Iraq.
In 2011, the original squadron was disbanded, with its numberplate and symbols being inherited by a newly formed intelligence and reconnaissance unit.
There are at least 548 known battles between Muslims and Christians recorded throughout Classical history. Thus, bringing the “peace” of Islam to everyone they killed. See “Why We Are Afraid, A 1400 Year Secret”, by Dr. Bill Warner
There have been only 12 decades in 1400 years that have been Jihad free, that is only 9% has been “Peaceful”!
Not including the many millions that were captured and enslaved or forcibly ‘converted by the “Religion of Peace”! Islam has killed 60 million Christians, 10 million Buddhists, 80 million Hindus, and 120 million Africans! For a total of TWO-HUNDRED and SEVENTY MILLION non-Muslims killed by Islam. PLUS all the many Hundreds of Millions of Muslims have been killed by other Muslims from a different Sect!
NOTE: This listing is primarily the events occurring within Christendom itself, the Muslims were also remarkably busy conquering as far to the East as the Hindu Nations.
(Too many battles that mostly were won by Islam to list here)
1095 Launch of the first Crusade. Wasn’t this about time?
Talk about Christians “turning the other cheek”!
For much of this time since 637, Muslims were continually attacking pilgrims to the Holy Land and holding them for ransom, enslaving them, or killing them.
They had been also raiding everywhere they could reach for booty, slaves, and sex-slaves.
It took over 400 years of losing battles, millions of lives, Christian Cities, and Lands for the remaining Christian Nations to respond as an alliance to Islamic aggression and conquest. This was a military expedition by European Christians to regain the Holy Lands taken by the Muslim conquest of the Levant, which resulted in the re-capture of Jerusalem.
1099 First Crusade under Godfrey of Bouillon re-takes Jerusalem
1272 The last Crusade (Ninth) ended
— All these Islamic military invasions and conquests of previously Christian lands that Europeans were supposed to ignore?
One complaint….c’mon. Talk about tail waggin’ the dog. And the service arms why they can’t hit recruiting numbers, keep pilots etc.
So disappointing.
The Muslims can go straight to hell. Absolutely no one should give a rats ass about their their feelings. I would name my squadron any name and all names that offended these assholes. Go back home and cry. The military has gone sissy.