Would it anger Nick Griffin and the BNPS to say that St George was a Turk?

Question

Yes this is the shocking truth i heard today. St George the very epitome of Englishness, St George the Red cross on the white flag was no other then a Turk!

Im sure normal, decent British people dont care about his origins or where he came from but celebrate too rightly the great hero who slew that alleged dragon.

But how will Nick Griffin and BNP and other far right racists accept that the very hero of Englishnesses was none other then a Turk. "An 'orrible Turk" An Islamic yes Islamic Turk the very thing that Nick Griffin and the BNP seem to detest?

I mean the BNP humiliated themselves a few months ago when they tried to use a RAF battle of Britain poster except to later realise that the pilot in the picture were Polish pilots who defended Britain valiantly from the scourge of Nazism.

I mean how will this go down with the BNP then do you think? To realise that the very thing the St George they have loved and used it for their hateful purposes was none other then a Islamic Turk! Do you think they are saying now "Ok guys lets forget and disband this BNP this racism business just isn't working"

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/8634593.stm

Happy St Georges day to all the English people. Many thanks for your answers!

Answer 1

Don`t know about the Original but fat nicks tame St george was an absolute hoot.

When he came onto the telly i thought that i`d tuned into an episode of Monty Python by mistake.

The one standing next to nick with the red face and plastic helmet didn`t look up to handling a dragon, but he`d certainly slain a few pies in his time. Who says that true comedy is dead when we`ve got the good old bnp?



http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/election_2010/8640729.stm

Answer 2

People are thick as **** on here!

The Turks took the city of Constantinople (modern Istanbul) in the 15th Century, overthrowing the last Eastern Roman Emperor, and killing and raping as many christians as possible in the aftermath, thus creating Turkey as their homeland. The Turks themselves had been like gypsies, and had not settled anywhere in the past.

St George was alive over 1,000 years before, around the 4th Century AD, when people had never even heard of the Turks and Mohamed the founded of Islam was not even a twinkle in his gran,gran,gran,gran,gran,gran,grandads eye. So he was Roman, simple.

Although he did live in the predominantly Greek Eastern Empire yer, of course its confusing because when Muslims take over an areas they change the names of the cities to reflect Islamic culture.

How about IslamaHULL, or MohameDOVER? Wont be long now I'm sure. ;-)

Answer 3

It is not the nationality of the saint it is what the saint stands for and the BNP do not think that St George was English but St David was most definitely English,



ATB Red

Answer 4

St. George was a Turk, but NOT an Islamic Turk. He was a Christian Turk, born to Christian parents, who was a high ranking officer in the Roman Army, and who witnessed to his soldiers, and was executed for his faith, even though the Emperor's son, a friend of St. George, begged and even tried to bribe George to convert to one of the pagan faiths. Even under torture he didn't renounce Christ.



But no, St. George was not Islamic.

Answer 5

St George a Turk? Gee that bothers the BNP, but not as much as the fact that Jesus was not white. That really stings them so harsh that it makes them vomit. Well too bad for them, because neither Jesus nor St George were white, they will just have to live with it.

Answer 6

Utter rubbish! He was a Byzantine Greek Christian. When he was around, the Turks still lived in a yurt somewhere in Mongolia centuries before Genghis Khan or Mohammed were born. What's more he possibly didn't exist and the dragon definitely didn't.



The lies of the British National Party are:

1) That there's an indigenous British race. We're a mixture of just about every tribe on Earth.

2) That there's an indigenous British culture. We change it every few years.

3) That a party funded from South Africa can call itself British.

Answer 7

No English people (other than BNP fools) ever thought that St George was actually English.



St Patrick wasn't Irish Either!



No big deal. Jesus was a Jew.

Answer 8

Nick would probably brush it off as lies or unreliable information. The only problem is of course, that historians still debate whether or not St. George existed.



It is currently generally accepted that he was Roman, but that article is certainly an eye-opener. Thanks for the link, made for some interesting reading.

Answer 9

Actually Patrick and David were Welsh, Andrew was Palestinian and George was probably fictional. As for the BNP, I couldn't care less what bothers them.

Answer 10

St George wasn't a Turk, his country was invaded by Turks, as will ours be if we remain in the EU.

I'd say we have a lot in common.

Answer 11

He was a Romanian Catholic.

Not a Turkish Muslim.