PC German wingnuts want to ban Swastika in all EU

[cyberianpan]

BBC

Hindus opposing EU swastika ban

The Nazis hijacked the symbol from its Hindu origins
Hindus in Europe have joined forces against a German proposal to ban the display of the swastika across the European Union, a Hindu leader said.
Ramesh Kallidai of the Hindu Forum of Britain said the swastika had been a symbol of peace for thousands of years before the Nazis adopted it.

He said a ban on the symbol would discriminate against Hindus.

Germany, holder of the EU presidency, wants to make Holocaust denial and the display of Nazi symbols a crime.
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The group said banning the swastika was equivalent to banning the cross simply because the Ku Klux Klan had used burning crosses.

The swastika is already banned in Germany. A previous attempt to ban it across the EU in early 2005 failed after objections from several governments, including the British.

So this is where all the great EU effort is going ? It does highlight a more serious problem in that "Old" Continental Europe has a lesser belief in freedom of the individual than we do.

cYp

[Universal_001]

Oh dear god, the irony of bans like this never fails to amuse me,

[Unionist]

The Swasticka is also a Christian Symbol of hope!

Hence why it's all over the floor of Cobh Cathederal!

[Coles]

The Swasticka is also a Christian Symbol of hope!

Hence why it's all over the floor of Cobh Cathederal!

It's a Celtic symbol too, and a Native American symbol...

[Universal_001]

The Swasticka is also a Christian Symbol of hope!

Hence why it's all over the floor of Cobh Cathederal!

It's a Celtic symbol too, and a Native American symbol...

THEN WE MUST BAN THEM ALL..ye know...in case..er...someones offended like..

[Unionist]

A Mutli Racial, Mutli Denominational, Culturally Unifying Symbol.....Ban it quick before people find common ground or something!

[hinkar]

If they ban that, then they should also ban this:



And, should, while we're at it, 10 years in prison for anyone who denies there were bad spuds in the 1840s...and as a sop to the Unionists, 10 years for those who deny King Billy won at the Boyne...

[Unionist]

And the DEATH PENALTY for Holocaust denial!

[Universal_001]

If they ban that, then they should also ban this:



And, should, while we're at it, 10 years in prison for anyone who denies there were bad spuds in the 1840s...and as a sop to the Unionists, 10 years for those who deny King Billy won at the Boyne...

They should ban the flag or every "great power" of the 20th century and before then.

Tho I'd remind you the moral diffrence between the motivations for the killings in the Soviet Union and the Third Reich.

[hinkar]

They should ban the flag or every "great power" of the 20th century and before then.

Oh, we can limit it to, say, those states that killed over 10 million people...

Incidentally, the Germans tried to ban the Swaztica a couple of years back and it failed for just this reason, because the Eastern Europeans demanded a ban on the Soviet flag too...

Tho I'd remind you the moral diffrence between the motivations for the killings in the Soviet Union and the Third Reich.

The killings by the Soviet Union's weren't so bad because at least their heart was in right place?