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> http://www.halturnershow.com/
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> BRITAIN'S BBC RUNS NEWS STORY ON THE POSITIVE HISTORY OF THE SWASTIKA
> In response to upheaval over Prince Harry
>
> It is a religious symbol of "good!"
> Hindus still use it to this day; In Christianity, it is called a
> "Gammadion" because it is actually constructed of four interlockings
> of the Greek Letter Gamma. Each Gamma represents one Book of The
> Gospel: Matthew, Mark, Luke & John, in The Bible!
> - Hal Turner
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> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/4183467.stm
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> Tuesday, 18 January, 2005
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> Origins of the swastika
>
>
>
> The Nazis hijacked the symbol from its Hindu origins
>
> The EU has been urged to ban the swastika because of its Nazi
> associations with hate and racism. But the symbol was around long
> before Adolf Hitler.
>
> The swastika is a cross with its arms bent at right angles to either
> the right or left. In geometric terms, it is known as an irregular
> icosagon or 20-sided polygon.
>
> The word is derived from the Sanskrit "svastika" and means "good to
> be". In Indo-European culture it was a mark made on people or objects
> to give them good luck.
>
> It has been around for thousands of years, particularly as a Hindu
> symbol in the holy texts, to mean luck, Brahma or samsara (rebirth).
> It can be clockwise or anti-clockwise and the way it points in all
> four directions suggests stability. Sometimes it features a dot
> between each arm.
>
>
>
> Prince Harry's Nazi fancy dress uniform sparked anger
>
> Nowadays it is commonly seen in current and ancient Hindu
architecture
> and Indian artwork, including the ruins of the ancient city of Troy.
> It has also been used in Buddhism and Jainism, plus other Asian,
> European and Native American cultures.
>
> The British author Rudyard Kipling, who was strongly influenced by
> Indian culture, had a swastika on the dust jackets of all his books
> until the rise of Nazism made this inappropriate. It was also a
symbol
> used by the scouts in Britain, although it was taken off Robert
> Baden-Powell's 1922 Medal of Merit after complaints in the 1930s.
>
> It is rarely seen on its own in Western architecture, but a design of
> interlocking swastikas is part of the design of the floor of the
> cathedral of Amiens, France.
>
>
>
> Nazi's hooked crosss
>
> Swastika is also a small mining town in northern Ontario, Canada,
> about 580 kilometres north of Toronto. Attempts by the government of
> Ontario to change the town's name during World War II were rejected
by
> residents.
>
> But it is its association with the National Socialist German Workers
> Party in the 1930s which is etched on the minds of Western society.
> Before Hitler, it was used in about 1870 by the Austrian Pan-German
> followers of Schoenerer, an Austrian anti-Semitic politician.
>
> Its Nazi use was linked to the belief in the Aryan cultural descent
of
> the German people. They considered the early Aryans of India to be
the
> prototypical white invaders and hijacked the sign as a symbol of the
> Aryan master race.
>
> The Nazi party formally adopted the swastika - what they called the
> Hakenkreuz, the hooked cross - in 1920. This was used on the party's
> flag (above), badge, and armband.
>
> In Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler wrote: "I myself, meanwhile, after
> innumerable attempts, had laid down a final form; a flag with a red
> background, a white disk, and a black swastika in the middle. After
> long trials I also found a definite proportion between the size of
the
> flag and the size of the white disk, as well as the shape and
> thickness of the swastika."
Interesting.
Hank
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