"J. van Baardwijk" wrote:
> BTW, the swastika in question had nothing to do with the Nazis but is used
> as a symbol for IIRC an India-based humanitarian organisation. The symbol
> of the swastika existed long before the Nazis.
Maybe someone is just going to point me to snopes.com or something in
response to this question, but I'd heard that the swastika the Nazis
used was a mirror image of the one regularly used, and in fact the Nazi
swastika's orientation was considered by the original users of the
swastika to be bad luck. Am I wrong?
Not that this necessarily helps anything....
Julia
Me:
It's at an angle. The Indian swastika is a good luck symbol with the arms
upright or horizontal, the Nazi one at an angle. Hence the Nazi swastika
was often called "the twisted cross." While I am, for obvious reasons,
considerably more aware of Indian symbology than most people, there is just
no way that this fact makes the statement comparing the Star of David to the
swastika acceptable. If you want _another_ example of European
anti-semitism, the refusal of the Red Cross to allow Israel's equivalent to
join is a fine one.
Gautam
