I'm not back-pedalling. My position has not changed one iota.
I'm not sulking. I never have seen the point of sulking.
I just feel it must be quite sad if you feel you need to get one over on people all the time. Different people have different views. Get over it.
I wasn't trying to give it any particular creedence. I actually know a fair number of Muslims, none of whom, I think, would be particularly offended by it, mainly because it was 921 years ago.
So I am not looking to be overly politically correct about it....
He also predated the Crusades by about 800 years, so dressing as St George does not equate to the Crusades.
But anybody who can't see that things about the Crusades, which were not the finest hour of the Western world, might be (and I said might be, not would be) offensive to Muslims is an...