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To: WesternCulture

This is good news.

We here in my country have been laughing at Hitler and the nazis for years and nobody takes anyone seriosly that declares himself a nazi.

Maybe we don´t take this though seriously enough as the following story shows.

There ain´t many jews in Iceland, but of course children here know about the holocost and all that. There is a very old company here, shipping company, founded in 1919 (or 13) but that had been for long time dream of the nation, that until recently had as its official logo a blue swastica wich is an old nordic symbol as you all know.

This company had a very prominent house in downtown Reykjavík and on top of that is the swastica painted in blue, although very recently (few years) it has been covered due to PC. Once a group of schoolchildren, around the age 12 I beliewe saw a seemingly upset jew (as recognised by his distinctive head gear wich you don´t see here except in the movies) taking pictures of the swastica.

Some of the boys thought it funny that he was upset by this much older symbol than the nazi swastica (and rather distinct from it) and started goosestepping and giving him a nazi salute as a joke among themselves.

Of course it was propably out of line, but this shows how these events are far away from the children. Actually this jew wrote an article about this that was translated into Icelandic papers and it became a little bit of a fuss, propably helping the company taking the decison of changing the logo eventually (it had not used it prominently for long time), although that was more because of changes in ownership structure and such.

In the movie European Trip is a very funny schets about nazis and germany, a schets I wonder was propably not legal in Germany. I am a little bit perplexed that they can even show the nazi salute or symbols in their movies.

Lets hope this evil idealogy will newer gain prominence again.


3 posted on 01/12/2007 11:12:38 PM PST by Leifur
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To: Leifur
"Lets hope this evil idealogy will newer gain prominence again."

Too late. It's called "Islam."

7 posted on 01/13/2007 12:20:50 AM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Cheney X -- Destroying the Liberal Democrat Traitors By Any Means Necessary -- Ya Dig ? Sho 'Nuff.)
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