Forbidding the swastika

Monday, January 17. 2005

Forbidding the swastika

As you can read here, EU tries to forbid the swastika after Prince Harry's scandal. All I can say is that (a) forbidding symbols won't hinder national socialism to keep on existing and (b) the swastika isn't always related to national socialism. In fact, the swastika is a religious symbol in Buddhism. Or would you call the [[Dalai Lama]] a Nazi? So, forbidding swastikas per se makes absolutely no sense.

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The Nazi Hakenkreuz is not only a swastika; it's a swastika on a white circle, which is itself located on a red rectangle. If the EU declares this type of swastika as illegal, I think even Falun Gong members may agree with it.

#1 Claus (Homepage) on 2005-01-19 08:39 (Reply)

I agree with you, but the article is not specific on that, and since EU is not very well known for informing themselves, it is not unlikely that they actually forbid all types of swastika.

#2 ak on 2005-01-19 08:45 (Reply)

BTW, the logo of the "Ball der Technik" also bears some resemblance to a swastika. See http://www.music.at/tu-ball/.

#3 Claus (Homepage) on 2005-01-26 03:02 (Reply)

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