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Muezzin
People may be getting confused as the red cross (English flag) is called the Cross of St. George, which was flown during the Crusades.
True. To try to turn this to something more productive, I noticed Wikipedia says,
In Islamic cultures, the figure of al-Khadr (or al-Khidr; according to the Qur'an a companion of the prophet Moses), is associated with St.George, who is also venerated under that name by Christians among mainly Muslim people, especially Palestinian people, and mainly around Jerusalem, where according to tradition he lived and often prayed near the Temple Mount, and is venerated as a protector in times of crisis. His main monument is the elongated mosque Qubbat al-Khadr ('The Dome of al-Khadr') which stands isolated from any close neighbors on the northwest corner of the Dome of the Rock terrace in Jerusalem.
Is there such a mosque and what is the Quranic basis for a belief in al-Khadr? It looks, umm, odd to me.