This is a complete absurdity. New York Jews sure should keep away from India. Symbols like the one above are plastered up everywhere in India.
On the Nazi symbol the arms face forward. Above you see that they face backward, which the way they usually (though not always) face in Asia. They are a common Asian good luck symbol.
And this might be an occasion to note that the Nazis did NOT call their symbol a swastika. They called it a "Hakenkreuz" (hooked cross). It was only purblind Anglo-Saxons who confused it with the Asian symbol known in India as a "swastik".
And why did the Nazis choose that symbol? Because one of their American predecessors (a "Progressive") said it was two entwined letters "S". And why "S"? For socialism, of course! The Hakenkreuz is a symbol of socialism!
I might as well straighten out all the confusions about this so I will also mention that the swastik associated with the Indian elephant god (Ganesha) goes the same way as the Nazi symbol. Don't ask me why but Ganesha devotees were doing it that way long before Hitler came along.
I in fact have on my wall a copper swastik with a Ganesha figure in the middle of it but I guess I had better not take it with me if ever I go to New York again. People who can't see which way the arms are facing above probably would not be able to see the Ganesha figure in the middle of my swastik either!
The owner of a Brooklyn jewelry store criticized for selling swastika earrings will reportedly stop selling the controversial item.
New York City Councilman Steve Levin, D-Brooklyn, visited Bejeweled in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, on Wednesday and met with owner Young Sook Kim, who agreed to remove them from the shelves, the Daily News reports.
A day earlier, politicians and advocates told FoxNews.com that the earrings were the latest example of anti-Semitism in New York and New Jersey. Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer demanded that the store immediately stop selling them.
"Let me be clear -- a swastika is not a fashion statement," Stringer said in a statement to FoxNews.com. "It is the most hateful symbol in our culture, and an insult to any civilized person."
But the store's manager defended the $5.99 earrings, saying the swastika is a symbol of eternity in Tibetan Buddhism, not just a symbol popularized by Nazi Germany. "It's not a Nazi symbol," Kim told FoxNews.com on Wednesday. "I don't know what's the problem. My earrings are coming from India as a Buddhist symbol."
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NYC jews are always offended by anything they dislike or disagree with, unless of course, they can make a profit from it. If they can't make money from it, they'll gladly take the sympathy and attention.
Ignorance trumps knowledge so often it's almost become expected....
I see you waited until the last sentence to state it is a Buddhist symbol but that is correct. The first time I went to Korea I had to ask that question because I didn't know. And yes, I have always seen it backwards from the Nazi symbol although I have read many times that it doesn't have to be.
I understand the swastika is consitred a reliuous symbol in some places
Even the still very successful Danish brewery concern, Carlsberg, used to have that as a logo in the 1930s and it appeared on the labels of all its bottled beer before the Nazis came to power.
If the clown had an R instead of a D after his name, the libtards would be sighing at his lack of sophistication.
Yep - symbols (even slightly altered or incorrect ones) seem to have power.
Is there anything innately offensive about the symbol - of course not. It is entirely about its associations.
The type of thinking shown in this article are the very same as have banned the word 'niggardly'.
I'm pretty much in favor of letting people sell anything to anyone that will buy it as long as no one is actually hurt, so I fail to see how it would be an issue if they were nazi symbols. But I am confused by one thing...
If I'm looking at the pic right, and if understand how ear rings are worn, they would be swastikas if you wore them in the wrong ears. Wouldn't they?
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