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It was said that the reason why the Muslims adopted the crescent was that when they conquered some western countries, the churches there had crosses on top of them, the Muslims replaced the crosses with these crescents, and the practice spread in this way.
( from http://www.muslimaccess.com/articles/misc/moonstar.asp )
For hundreds of years, the Ottoman Empire ruled over the Muslim world. After centuries of battle with Christian Europe, it is understandable how the symbols of this empire became linked in people's minds with the faith of Islam as a whole. Based on this history, many Muslims reject using the crescent moon as a symbol of Islam. The faith of Islam has historically had no symbol, and many refuse to accept what is essentially an ancient pagan icon. It is certainly not in uniform use among Muslims. ( from http://islam.about.com/od/history/a/crescent_moon.htm )
So as Woodrow said earlier it was not unreasonable of me to think as I did.
So maybe we should take down all the Cresent Moons from all the Mosques that carry that Pagan symbol and as Naidamar so eloquently puts it shove them up the rear oriface of any Ottoman we can find and see if and Muslim bats an eyelid lol.
Love and Respect ( and just a little sense of Humour )
The suggestion was mine that you shove it up yours, as it might make you 14% smarter by bringing your brain matter to its rightful place.. though glad to see you moving on from moon god to an adapted symbol that is completely meaningless as the so called star of david to Jews..
all the best