On Sun, 27 Nov 2005 10:07:30 GMT, "Heidi Graw" <heidigraw@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:
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>>"Howard Beale" <weirdlinks@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>news:I94if.19078$BZ5.8259@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>A woman in Vallejo, California found Christmas bulbs with swastikas on
them
>>at a local Pier 1 Im****ts store. When she and Jews complained, the
store
>>declined to remove the offensive item from their shelves. SEE PHOTOS
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>> LINK: http://tinyurl.com/cwhog
>> FULL LINK: http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=local&id=3661759
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>While it's understandable that the swastika conjures up all sorts of
>negative feelings, it certainly wasn't always that way.
>
>http://skepdic.com/swastika.html
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>It's rightful place is as a good luck charm. Unfortunately, because the
>Nazi regime appropriated the symbol for their own use, it's unlikely that
>this symbol can be cleansed and purified anytime soon.
>
>There are people who are presently trying to put the correct meaning back
>into this symbol and are refusing to erase it. However, given that so
much
>pain and hurt is associated with it because of the Holocaust, I do not
think
>it is respectful of the Jewish people to flaunt this symbol around at
this
>time. It may be possible to do so several hundred years from now. But
not
>now.
If 6 million Jews expect 1 billion Hindus to drop a symbol they have
had for thousands of years cause one guy used it while killing Jews a
few decades ago, they are whacked in the head.
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>However, I'm not sure stylized versions of it should give cause for
alarm.
>Different cultures had different stylized versions of it. And if one
were
>to look hard enough at any pattern, one could see swastikas! Should we
be
>banning any and all patterns in which swastikas could be seen, however
>remote and stretched that imagination might be?
>
>Those Christmas tree bulbs are just decorative items. Those swirly
things
>certainly don't look offensive to me! Personally I find the Christian
>cross offensive! The cross was used as an item to inflict the death
>penalty. The cross is like that electric chair or lethal syringe! Tens
of
>thousands of people had been killed on the cross. Yet, you won't find me
>going on the bandwagon to have that cross banned! It's just something I
>choose not to display in my home or wear around my neck, or have dangling
>from my ear-lobes! I don't wear items of death as a fa****on *****sory
or
>expression of faith.
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>Heidi
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