[Coleus]

I don't know how the Raelians became involved with this but they are right when they said that the symbol is used by the Hindus, it's too bad the Hindu community didn't take the opportunity to educate the school officials who should have known better. Some Hindus have that symbol on their doormats and entrances to their homes.

Notice how the schools immediately found the 8-yr-old child guilty and sent him to "counseling" without the permission of his parents.

[Little Pig]

Living in India, I see the swastika all the time. It’s painted in many places in my wife’s parents’ house, for one thing. On my commute to work every day I pass a house that has a window shaped like a swastika.

There really needs to be a movement to divorce the symbol from the disaster the Nazis perpetrated using it. It’s a lot older than them, and will be around long after they’re forgotten.

And yes, the Hindu and Buddhist communities could have lent a lot of weight to the Raelians’ protest. Few have heard of the Raelians, but almost everyone at least recognizes Hinduism and/or Buddhism.

[Wpin]

“
Notice how the schools immediately found the 8-yr-old child guilty and sent him to “counseling” without the permission of his parents.”

Excellent point, I had not considered that. Thanks!

[Wpin]

“
Notice how the schools immediately found the 8-yr-old child guilty and sent him to “counseling” without the permission of his parents.”

Excellent point, I had not considered that. Thanks!

[ansel12]

The U.S Army used to use the Swastika, look up the WWI 45th Infantry Division.

[TigersEye]

I went to look up American Indian use of the swastika design and found lots of other cultures used it. Ancient Greeks, African tribes ... too many to list. See the link.

[Makana]

Raelians “It is numerically the world’s largest UFO religion” according to Wikipedia.

Enough said.

[cripplecreek]

Good lord what a bunch of idiots we have running our schools in this country. I’m a high school dropout and even I recognize the Indian version of the “swastika” as an innocuous symbol.

James McDivitt would be rolling over in his grave iffin he were in it.

[Forward the Light Brigade]

Witch way were the arms pointing? It was also a Native American Good Luck symbol. Hitler reverse it when he used it as a symbol of the Nazi Movement. One direction—religious symbol, other way Nazi Symbol of hate.