Change in national symbols?
Your_us...@osu.edu
More outgrageous and dangerous ravings from an a
self-appointed guardian of antional unity:
"Kavkasioni" No. 27, February 19, pp. 1, 4
The Historic Reality Urges Us to Choose Our Way
A special state commission is designing new state symbolis for Georgia:
a banner, a national emblem, and an anthem. The new state banner, the
author argues, must carry a cross as the symbol of Georgia's Christianity.
As to the Georgian Muslims, in his opinion, 'they are as unnatural as
blue-eyed, light-haired, Slav-type Muslim Bosnians. This is our
pain that needs curing, not putting up with'. /end/
How appealing to have Serbs as the model to emulate but... as they say
birds of a feather flock together. Just imagine a happy company of
Serbs, Georgians, Greeks, Russians, (maybe even Bulgarians and Romanians)
conferring how to save the world from the satan.
Hmm, I'm not sure if the word 'happy' belongs here :-}
I still wonder what this madman is proposing as the remedy for the
Georgan muslems.
Leon
Your_us...@osu.edu
It seems like I've just woken up from the long coma but I
have to post this news from February and beyond. Apparently,
moves to change the georgian flag and that bizarre state seal
are proceeding in earnest.
I alway thought that having St. George as the state seal was
outlandish, especilaly, in light of the separation of the state
and religion. New proposals seems even stranger though.
"Meridiani 44" February 11-14
Among other problems, a special state commission to design the country's
new flag, national emblem and anthem is thinking about the issue of whether
the new flag needs a cross. If so, it is argued that it would, along with
other negative consequences, aggravate the confrontation between Tbilisi
and Aslan Abashidze, the leader of Adjaria, a region
with a large Muslim population. /end/
One of the members of the commission apparently said that the
cross on the flag was needed to show which side Georgia was in
the coming clash of the Moslem and Chrisitian worlds!
This chest-beating about Chrisitanity is becoming more and more
ridiculous, especially when it's aimed at proving that Georgia
is a died-in-the-wool Christian nation. First, who cares at
the end of the 20th century and then, is bowing to paitings the
sign of Christianity?
God save us from unstable people.