{"id":2477,"date":"2007-01-17T16:53:06","date_gmt":"2007-01-17T16:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2007\/01\/17\/call-to-halt-swastika-ban\/"},"modified":"2016-01-06T16:47:09","modified_gmt":"2016-01-06T16:47:09","slug":"call-to-halt-swastika-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2007\/01\/17\/call-to-halt-swastika-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Call to halt swastika ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<div><strong>BRITISH Hindu\u2019s will attempt to block a move by Germany to ban the swastika across the European Union.<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Ramesh Kallidai, of the Hindu Forum of Britain, told Reuters a number of organisations across Europe were planning on challenging Germany\u2019s decision to ban the swastika as part of its plans to make Holocaust denial and the display of Nazi symbols a crime. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The swastika, which has its roots in Hinduism, was adopted by Hitler during his brutal Nazi reign as German leader. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>But Mr Kallidai said it was a \u201csymbol of peace\u201d and banning it would discriminate against Hindus.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>&#8220;The swastika has been around for 5,000 years as a symbol of peace. This is exactly the opposite of how it was used by Hitler,&#8221; he said.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>&#8220;It is almost like saying that the Klu Klux Klan used burning crosses to terrorise black men, so therefore let us ban the cross. How does that sound to you?&#8221;<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>&#8220;Every time we see a swastika symbol in a Jewish cemetery, that of course must be condemned. But when the symbol is used in a Hindu wedding, people should learn to respect that,&#8221; he told Reuters.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>&#8220;In Sanskrit it means May Goodness Prevail. Just because Hitler misused the symbol, abused it and used it to propagate a reign of terror and racism and discrimination, it does not mean that its peaceful use should be banned.&#8221;<\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BRITISH Hindu\u2019s will attempt to block a move by Germany to ban the swastika across the European Union. &#13; Ramesh Kallidai, of the Hindu Forum of Britain, told Reuters a number of organisations across Europe were planning on challenging Germany\u2019s decision to ban the swastika as part of its plans to make Holocaust denial and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}