Middlesex Crusaders cricket team changes name after complaints from Muslims and Jews

by Auslan Cramb
Telegraph
February 3, 2009

http://www.islamist-watch.org/1327/middlesex-crusaders-cricket-team-changes

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A county cricket team has renamed its one-day side after complaints from Muslims and Jews.

Middlesex County Cricket Club has announced that the Middlesex Crusaders will play next season as The Panthers.

Vinny Codrington, Middlesex chief executive, confirmed that the club had received "one or two" complaints from Muslim and Jewish communities concerned that the name was a reference to the medieval Christian crusades against other faiths.

He said some people found the name "rather upsetting" but denied that the change was being made for reasons of political correctness.

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