While Germany holds the European Union presidency, its Justice Minister Brigitte Zypries has, without realizing its wider implications, proposed to ban the Swastika throughout Europe.
The German Government is in danger of stepping onto a most negligently thrown banana skin.
What banana skin? you may ask.
The banana skin of the most gross misuse of the symbol of good - the Swastika, in World War II.
Who was responsible for this irresponsible act?
Non other than a fellow German -- Adolf Hitler.
If a delibrately thrown banana skin (mis-use of the Swastika) causes a fall of someone (Adolf Hitler) then should the government ban all imports of bananas (i.e. ban all displays of the Swastika including those by the Hindus for religious purposes)?
Let the EU think about this.
Unless Justice Minister Brigitte Zypries wants to slip and fall, off her political perch, just like Hitler did.
(The Swastika does have hidden powers)
2007-01-23 22:29:45 · 15 answers · asked by kayamat_ka_din 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Agree with most of what 'Preacher' says except his last comment about witchcraft. Even scientists who sudy the universe have had to admit that the universe is more wierd than we can imagine it to be.
I'd keep an open mind on this.
Was it not Pope Clement VIII who ordered that Giordano Bruno be burned at the stake on 17 February 1600, for his defence of the Copernican system of astronomy, for his doctrine of the plurality of inhabited worlds and his belief that the Holy Ghost/Spirit is the soul of the world?
2007-01-23 22:52:08 · update #1
As pointed out by 'so dark the con of man' it is Education that will change the prejudice of the people.
2007-01-24 03:09:12 · update #2
Some are attempting to split hairs about Hitler's nationality. He may be Austrian by birth but the majority of his crime was perpetrated by the Nazis. The membership of the SS too was not just of Austrian men. Germany has to bear the burden of responsibility for the genocide. How they say sorry, to the decent world, for the crimes of their ancesters does matter.
2007-01-24 03:44:52 · update #3
Yes, it would be another banana skin. Instead of getting rid of the Swastika, the government should educate its citizens on the real symbolic meaning of it.
2007-01-23 22:42:05 · answer #1 · answered by Ayesha 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The swastika is a symbol used in both the Hindu and Buddhist religions, and I do agree that the Justice Minister's motives are not thought out as they should be. If the swastika can be banned, then so can the cross and any other symbol that a government may choose to become offended over. The swastika is not a symbol of benevolence in Europe, however, and i do not believe that it should be publicly displayed outside of the Hindu and Buddhist religions. There are too many people alive today throughout the world for whom the swastika is a very painful memory of the horrors of WWII. There is no power in a symbol except what people give it---you are talking witchcraft.
2007-01-23 22:42:55 · answer #2 · answered by Preacher 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
It's also used by the Finnish Air Force to mark its aircraft; A sky blue swastika on a white circle (at least the last time I looked, this may have changed). I'm pretty sure the Finns aren't Fascists. Banning the swastika is a fairly stupid idea. Just because Hitler used it -- he had an obsession with runic symbols -- doesn't necessarily make it completely bad. It's a part of European history, like it or not. The United States is doing the same thing by trying to ban the Confederate flag, saying it's a "symbol of racism." It's also part of an unfortunate time in American history; banning symbols does nothing to change the past. Germany and Europe need to get over it. Banning the swastika won't stop racial hatreds.
2007-01-23 22:49:14 · answer #3 · answered by link955 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
i do no longer think of the swastika must be banned purely because of the fact Hitler desperate to apply it for evil. long formerly Hitler used it, the emblem became had a dazzling meaning. i will comprehend the way it could be painful for some human beings to work out that image. I additionally think of its disgusting that some neo-nazi communities use it in a unfavourable way. The swastika is a logo, a picture and should no longer have the potential to harm, in spite of the undeniable fact that to three its a reminder of soreness. there have been very few circumstances in my lifetime that I even have "seen" the swastika as properly the historical past Channel. Banning a logo because of the fact of a unfavourable connotation to me, purely provides that image greater potential. It additionally won't make human beings end utilising it, for solid or undesirable. drugs are unlawful, yet human beings nevertheless use them.
2016-11-01 03:50:30 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
a symbol i just a symbol, unfortunately Adolf Hitler adopted the swastika as a symbol of the Nazi's. Jaguar cars used the SS badge on one of its cars, but dropped it as again this was a symbol of the Nazi's.
Maybe its time to put the past behind us and move forward, I don't think anyone fear the German Nation today and lets face it, there a lot of other up and coming dictators out there
2007-01-24 00:43:21 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
How can you ban something just because you don't like it? This is the same retarded mentallity that put a historian in prison for denying the holocaust ever happened. Europe thinks they are so great, but what about freedom of speech? Idiotic Europeans not able to get something as basic into their governments. And by the way, the swastika has meanings in other cultures including in Asia.
2007-01-23 23:34:22 · answer #6 · answered by Alucard 4 · 4⤊ 1⤋
For sure - anything banned is great for publicity and will definitely appeal even more to the kids that hate the whole idea of authority.
Well done the EU - in creating a banana skin they've also managed to make a lemon!
What next? The crucifix?!
2007-01-23 22:36:52 · answer #7 · answered by ? 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The Swastika is a traditional English symbol too.
http://www.skiptonweb.co.uk/tourist/walks/30_swastika/
2007-01-23 23:55:37 · answer #8 · answered by andylefty 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I think we all know they only want to ban it's use by extreme right-wing nutcases, and have no intention of wanting to offend those who view the swastika as a religious symbol going back generations before Hitler's re-interpretation (who was, by the way, Austrian, and not German)
2007-01-23 22:45:34 · answer #9 · answered by DaveyMcB 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Hitler was Austrian.
The swastika ban is stupid... It is a symbol of revolving energy.
2007-01-23 22:34:51 · answer #10 · answered by Invisible_Flags 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋