"I am Not a Nazi" Swastika.

When you look at the history of the Nazi and find out why they use the Swastika as a symbol of their party... one could come to the conclusion that it was all plotted in advance.

Hitler used it because it was some sort of Aryan symbol ( Proto-Indo-Iranians ) and he did it because he had trouble recruiting iranians and indians in his army. It was "Join us or be labeled as ennemy by the rest of the world" but they refused in most part to join anyway.

Today you can see how the media is using this at their advantage and try to associate Iranians and Indians to the Nazi just because of a 3500 years old symbol.

There we see what effective branding can do to a symbol.

My parents collect books and have a pre WWII set of Kipling Books decorated by swastikas on the spines. They have kept the quite valuable set, but the books always made me vaguely uncomfortable. Even though clearly not related to Nazism at all the symbol is so associated with such pure evil, it is hard to separate it. It is interesting how symbols can be hijacked and corrupted and how potent a force they can be. Interesting in Asia the swastika is still used frequently. Check out the wikipedia entry for some interesting modern usages.

Same thing with the Confederate flag. It has no ties what so ever with racism in its true meaning. In fact, something they don't teach you in school, the civil war wasn't so much about slavery as it was the south realizing that they were producing more money for the north than the north was for itself. Nor did the war stop slavery. The industrial revolution rendered slaves obsolete.
In much the same way that Hitler gave the swastika a tie to Nazi Germany, ill witted rednecks plastering confederate flags all over their kitty killer monster trucks, and running around screaming racist slang gives it another, less truthful meaning.

Just so everyone knows, I'm not racist, I hate all races equally, and to any "pure blood" whites, or blacks, or any other race, I got some sad news...
There 's no such thing as a pure blood line anymore, so your superiority complex has just been cured...

Oh, and just for the record, the only way the Swastika could be seen as a racist symbol is if you believe that Judaism is a race rather than a religion. In which case you're an idiot, and may as well go hang out with the afore mentioned rednecks... Yes, I'm lumping skin heads and the Aryan nation into that redneck group too. Its meaning is power, not hate...

This is a building on a Navy base near San Diego. One has to wonder what the architects were thinking.

http://www.google.com/maps?q=Coronado,+CA,+USA&ie=UTF8&z=19&ll=32.675996,-117.157551&spn=0.001646,0.00339&t=h&om=1

I think anyone that tries to use the swastika as a peace symbol these days is horribly naive. And it can be a racist symbol - the Nazis weren't just after the Jews you know. Blacks, gypsies, homosexuals, Catholics...

The Origins of the Swastika. What do we know?

As stated above, it is an Indo-Aryan, Indo-Iranian or Indo- European symbol of religious and cultural significance. The swastika is deeply embedded in the life of modern India and even though their ancestors once revered this symbol together. The branching out of the Indo -European tribes resulted in the loss of this symbol to those tribes that came to be modern day Europeans. The Indo-Aryans held on to the swastika and is very important in their lives today. The symbol of the swastika is first depicted in the Ukraine as an art form on the ivory of a mammoth where it is carved in the Paleolithic Age 10,000 years ago. It was brought from the steppes of the Ukraine by the Indo-Aryans to India. Before in their migration routes and nomadic life, it played a significant role in sun worhip, religious life, horse sacrifices and on their pottery. Today, this remnant of a past nomadic life still resonates in the daily life of modern day India. The attempt by Blacks and Whites to further distort this religious symbol is illustrated by their false assumption that it originated from Egypt. This is so typical of the mindset when color and race blinds everyone. The swastika is an Indian symbol not an African one.

There is actually no evidence for the Aryan invasion theory.

It is a theory which has Racist/nationalist origins and was heavily promoted by the NAZIS.

Genetically most Indians are the same people and have been for at least 10,000 years.