[lit-ideas] Re: Iran outraged by Hollywood war epic
- From: "Simon Ward" <sedward@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 18:20:14 -0000
"In 2005, Anne Owers, Her Majesty's chief inspector of prisons, banned the
flying of the English national flag in English prisons on the grounds that it
shows the cross of St. George, which was used by the Crusaders and so is
offensive to Muslims."
Don't you just love all this mythologising.
Anne Owers, indeed Her Majesty's Inspector of Prisons, actually banned prison
warders in Wakefield Prison from wearing Tie Pins with a St George's Cross on
it. Her reason was the the pins might be misinterpreted as a racist symbol (The
Cross of St George is the standard banner of the BNP). Of course, under the
right wing magnefying glass of Steyn, this gets turned into a whole-scale
banning of flag flying.
Once again, Lawrence, find the reference to prove me wrong.
Simon
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