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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (50437)6/15/2004 12:40:04 PM
From: DMaA  Respond to of 793963
 
Using the name Istanbul insensitively reminds westerners of how Islam stole Constantinople, and the entire eastern Roman empire, by force of arms.



To: Tom Clarke who wrote (50437)6/15/2004 1:07:03 PM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 793963
 
How did 'crusader' get to be inflammatory?

When the Bush boyz declared it so and stopped using it, about week one, as I recall...