Comments on: Raelians celebrate the World Swastika Rehabilitation Day http://www.toonaripost.com/2012/06/life-style/raelians-celebrates-the-world-swastika-rehabilitation-day/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=raelians-celebrates-the-world-swastika-rehabilitation-day Grassroots Journalists, Bloggers and Experts capture and report news from around the world. Become a citizen journalist with Toonari Post today! Thu, 23 May 2013 01:50:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: MeridianWoman http://www.toonaripost.com/2012/06/life-style/raelians-celebrates-the-world-swastika-rehabilitation-day/#comment-7293 MeridianWoman Fri, 29 Jun 2012 06:01:12 +0000 http://www.toonaripost.com/?p=54604#comment-7293 “Despite the emotional reactions of some, at least some others were able to see the point of the swastika rehabilitation day. As one NY reader put it after reading a main-stream media article on the subject:
“I doubt they were flying the Nazi flag, as you have depicted. They were surely just flying a plain banner with a swastika on it, which — just as they say — was for thousands of years a symbol used universally, including by Jews. Some of the ancient shul mosaics in Eretz Yisroel have swastikas, and there were seforim printed with swastikas as a decorative motif. Until the Nazis used it it had no bad associations. So now for us it’s a painful reminder and we shun it, but if these people hold it dear we can’t really expect them to keep it in hiding just to spare our feelings. They want to expose it to sunlight and demystify it, so it will seem just as innocuous as it was before the War; I doubt it’s possible, but I can’t blame them for trying. After all, would we stop using a mogen dovid if the Japanese had used it as their symbol instead of the rising sun? “

“Excellent question, would the Jewish community accept that their symbol be banned if another group had highjacked it?” asked Kaenzig. “What would the Jewish community do if the Palestinians in the name of those who are killed today one day ask the International community to ban the symbol used by their torturers? (see http://www.raelianews.org )

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