I was in Co Sligo last week and on the road around Mullaghmore there is a modern monument, done up to look like a standing stone, with Ogham script on one side and in the centre a Christian cross with a swastika in its centre.
Now I know the swastika was originally an ancient Sanscrit good luck symbol and was even used by some ancient Christians, but in the modern world the swastika is a Nazi symbol and associating it with the Christian cross, as in this monument, just has the effect of sanitizing it.
Now it’s probable that whoever knocked up this monument put in the swastika from some politically correct but ultimately misguided attempt at inclusiveness, equality etc. but it’s just wrong. Nazi symbols should forever invoke the horrors of genocide, racism and antisemitism that the Nazis brought on the world. Any country with moral values would never have allowed this monument to be erected and would insist that the Nazi symbol be removed from it immediately.
Now I know the swastika was originally an ancient Sanscrit good luck symbol and was even used by some ancient Christians, but in the modern world the swastika is a Nazi symbol and associating it with the Christian cross, as in this monument, just has the effect of sanitizing it.
Now it’s probable that whoever knocked up this monument put in the swastika from some politically correct but ultimately misguided attempt at inclusiveness, equality etc. but it’s just wrong. Nazi symbols should forever invoke the horrors of genocide, racism and antisemitism that the Nazis brought on the world. Any country with moral values would never have allowed this monument to be erected and would insist that the Nazi symbol be removed from it immediately.