Cult re-adopts swastika
The Raelian movement, an atheistic cult that claims humans were created by aliens, has reverted to its original symbol: a swastika inside a Star of David.
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Hindus opposing EU swastika ban
Ramesh Kallidai of the Hindu Forum of Britain said the swastika had been a symbol of peace for thousands of years before the Nazis adopted it.
Germany vows to erase Nazi symbols from across Europe
Tuesday January 16, 2007 Hate Groups, Swastika
Germany intends to introduce a Europe-wide law banning the display of Nazi symbols and making denial of the Holocaust a crime to fulfil its historical obligation 62 years after the liberation of Auschwitz.
EU-wide Nazi symbols ban rejected
Thursday February 24, 2005 Swastika
Luxembourg, which currently chairs the EU, withdrew the plans when it became clear that members could not agree on which symbols to ban.
Nazi bear a cultural boo-boo
Tuesday December 31, 2002 Swastika
Canadian Press, Dec. 29, 2002 http://www.globeandmail.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/front/RTGAM/20021229/wbear1229a/Front/homeBN/breakingnews Canadian Press Sunday, December 29 – Online Edition, Posted at 9:38 PM EST Montreal — A cross-cultural misunderstanding about one of the world’s oldest religious symbols might be at the heart of the mystery that had “Nazi” pandas popping out of Christmas crackers. Last Friday, a Lachine, Que., manufacturer of the festive crackers was horrified to learn that a northern Alberta couple celebrating Christmas found tiny plastic panda bears with
Move afoot to detoxify ancient, once-benign swastika symbol
Saturday July 29, 2000 Swastika
Can the swastika be redeemed? Before the Nazi Party adopted the swastika and turned it into the most potent icon of racial hatred, it traveled the world as a good luck symbol. It was known in France, Germany, Britain, Scandinavia, China, Japan, India and the United States. Buddha’s footprints were said to be swastikas. Navajo blankets were woven with swastikas. Synagogues in North Africa, Palestine and Hartford, Conn., were built with swastika mosaics. Now there is a small movement afoot to help “the swastika get on with its benign life,” to separate it from “the sins of the Nazis.” Is