Posted on 01/28/2005 9:35:32 AM PST by Eurotwit
A BURNING swastika was found on a grave in a Jewish cemetery in southern Sweden just hours after world leaders commemorated the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz.
Police said the burning symbol of the Third Reich was discovered at a cemetery in Norrkoeping. "Someone gathered candles from the graves and shaped them like a swastika and lit the candles," said local duty officer Paer Aake Olsson.
"This is agitation against a religious group and is a crime ... We have gathered shoe prints from the area and have taken pictures of the grave, so we have the clues we need."
The US Army has pentagrams on all of its vehicles.
Are they Satanic?
Of course not.
And not every use of a swastika is Nazi.
I'm not talking about cars.
Someone took all the candles on other graves and put them together to make a swastika. In a jewish cemetary,..right after the 60th anniversary of Auschwitz.
Are you seriously saying that in this instance-the one this article is talking about-that the swastika wasn't a nazi reference? A jewish relative arranaged it after visiting his dead uncle? Or someone walking by just decided to get creative? With candles?
I would love to hear a possible explanation.
You must be looking for a flame war. You are ABSOLUTELY going out of your way.
A burning SWASTIKA in a JEWISH CEMETERY is not a symbol of piece, unless the "gentle soul" leaving it is a functional imbecile.
Get a grip on reality!
Ping to the Swedish Ping List.
Henry Ford was anti-Jewish in a way that many Americans of his time were. He reflected the mores of the common people who bought his cars.
The Holocaust made Americans look at what their own attitudes could become if they were allowed to incubate into senseless hatred. Frankly, were it not for the Holocaust I think most Americans would still buy into crap like 'The Protocols of the Elders of Zion' and other insanity.
It was one thing to be a Henry Ford who said nasty things about the Jews (just like most everyone else of his time) and then to see the pictures come back from Germany of people.
People.
Starved. Dying. Piled in stacks. Immolated. Children.
We Americans like to think that we were better than the Nazis and we like to collectively think that people like Henry Ford were anachronisms when, in fact, they were the norm. I often wonders how many Americans saw the films of the Holocaust and then pondered the idea that it could've happened here?
Where does Henry Fords' common prejudice become Stalin or Hitlers' act of inhuman atrocity?
One poster on this thread says that all Nazi symbols should be suppressed...I imagine forcibly.
So we trade one prejudice for another. It isn't fashionable to hate Jews anymore so now we hate Nazis and everything that might even 'look' Nazi. And were stretching here since there are darn few real Nazis around to hate anymore.
So should we round up the blond haired blue eyed people?
Do we arrest Hopi Indians because the swastika is a sacred symbol to them? What about the billion or so Hindus? Do we round them up and put them in camps because they also consider the symbol sacred?
Or do we give it a rest and consider that a hateful use of a swastika is wrong while an innocent use of it is completely different and has nothing to do with the Holocaust, Judaism (even the Jews used to use the swastika!), or the Nazis - most of whom are dead?
Okay, there are pentagrams on many US military graves, not just US Army vehicles.
Are they Satanic?
Yeah sure. I'm sure it was a mere coincidence.
I think you need to get over your innocent swastika routine.
Here's one from a coworker of mine that goes even better:
Apparently the Beith Tefila synagogue in Gothenburg, Sweden has swastikas in the art on the front doors.
So, as I was saying, not every use of the symbol is Nazi.
But..why would they choose the 60th Anniversary of Auschswitz to burn this "positive sign"? It's rather a coincidence, isn't it?
How close is this cemetery to Malmö?
"I think you need to get over your innocent swastika routine."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika
Read. Learn.
Sorry. We aren't buying the bullshit.
The Jewish people need to get past their victim-hood and move on
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Who are you to tell people when its time to stop grieving the murder of their relatives? Many are still alive who watched their parents and siblings killed.
Most Jews have moved on--they have their lives, their homes, their businesses, even their own country, Israel, which is constantly under attack. It is the jew haters who haven't moved on and its starting all over again, with vandalism, attacks,etc. Just leave them alone. They aren't hurting you.
"This may have been a heartfelt act"
Are you serious?
This was a Jewish cemetary, not some Indian's cubicle. Don't you think that a little common sense applies here?
It's between Stockholm and Malmø, but is a lot closer to Stockholm.
BTW. Swedish is a neo nazi hotspot. Has been for many years. I would think this is probably a neo nazi thing, and not an islamic cultural enrichment. For the jews this is a double whammy. The huge number of islamic immigrants, is making many Swedes wary and angry. Some idiots join neo nazi organisations as a result of this. Neo Nazis blame jews for the islamic immigration.
So, by mutual reinforcement you have two violent anti semetic groupings coming into play.
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