Comments on: An Inappropriate and Offensive Swastika

By: NFAH

NFAH — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 19:01:06 +0000

It’s funny, we hear such outrage in the west over the “Great Firewall of China” and yet Google can censor things at will without people calling for free speech…

By: Vinod Joseph

Vinod Joseph — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 06:48:19 +0000

Dear Anon, you don’t make any sense whatsoever.

By: Anon

Anon — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 10:58:50 +0000

Well said Vinod Joseph. It lies not with us but posterity and charity from Jews and aggressive/assertive activism from us that will elevate the Swastika from the gutters on the world-stage and restore to the Swastika its rightful place in the Indo-Aryan triad of symbols. The current occupants of the Indo-Aryan triad religious motifs are

a) the Cross
b) the Crescent
c) the Sickle and Hammer

The Sickle and Hammer has been temporarily dethroned. The place is up for grabs. Right now we have to make haste for a new ideology is upon us. The Semetic ideology is upon us with a startingly new revelation.

By: Vinod Joseph

Vinod Joseph — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 09:54:58 +0000

It is not a question of taking the Swastika back from evil Hitler. It is more about waiting till his victims’ memories fade.

By: Amit

Amit — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:53:21 +0000

Why the hell that darn flag & their symbols outcast??!!

Meant to say:

Why the hell weren’t/aren’t that darn flag & their symbols outcast??!!

By: Amit

Amit — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:45:04 +0000

The bloody irony that I see is that Hitler chose a symbol to represent himself & his evil views & nobody wants to give a damn what that symbol actually means, just because Hitler used it makes it unholy! What about Jallianwala Bagh where a cousin of Hitler, working for a bunch of pissants who shared Hitler’s idealogy, gunned down hundreds of innocents & this was just 15 years before Hitler! Why the hell that darn flag & their symbols outcast??!!

Is it for a bunch of jerks to decide what is evil & what is not??!! Something bad happens to them & they decide to ban the whole symbology but if they do the same then its nothing bad mate, part of life!

And as for Arrington, well I don’t really think he gives a damn about swastika or being an anti-nazi or something, he just cares about the sensation he created & didn’t want anyone pricking his inflated sensational story!!

By: Neha Viswanathan

Neha Viswanathan — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:04:27 +0000

Amey: This has very little to do with Hindutva. This is what scares me when I feel like speaking in defense of a cultural symbol. This is more about a cultural symbol than a religious one. I do not consider myself a religious person, but I love what religion has enabled – music, literature, architecture, art and the whole lot.

Nobody is maligning anything here. They just need to come to terms with the multiplicity of meanings. The last thing I want is our politicians to get involved in this. There are far bigger, more urgent and real issues at hand. And politicians can’t do much – this is about the “perception” of a symbol – and you cannot force perception!