You have a wealth of information on your site, it’s pretty cool, I’m glad I had a chace to bump into you on an early morning sunrise in Pakistan. D.

some people at my school didn’t believe my friend when he said that the swastika was a symbol of peace, so i thank you for having this kind of information because tomorrow i’m gonna go rub it in thier faces. =)

p.s. what is an url? i forgot or never knew.

Thank you for sharing the truth. Unfortunetly many people are blind to the true meaning of the swastika. Too many are cursed to only see their own evil emanating from such a beautiful and ancient symbol. Truly the swastika is more powerful than what we can recognize.

Thank You guys for the Validation. I have this symbol in my Tattoo and get asked all the time, Why do you have a Swastika on your arm, are you a racist? Which I then have to explain that it was an indian peace symbol way before Hitler got ahold of it. Which then people go Sure whatever you say. So now I actually have proof. Thanks again.

True. And most people in my circles are aware of the swastika’s beginnings. But it’s not about being “blind to the true meaning.” It is about being less than sensitive to the pain this symbol dredges up in the minds of so many people around the world.

Words and symbols evolve, and we have to take their evolutions into account. We’re not talking about one guy usurping a peace sign. We’re talking about a symbol that is now synonymous with racism and hatred and ugliness because of the many people who wore it for evil.

I wonder if the guy who wears his swastika tattoo will call himself gay when he has a smile on his face. It’s a shame to lose a synonym for happiness, but there are other synonyms.

And there are other symbols.

Thw swastika symbol with 3 dots underneath means what I found this on my property?

Right on dogfaceboy, some kid logged onto an MMO just a few minutes ago and set his little icon next to his screenname to be a swastika. When told to change it, he linked to this blog. Just take it for what it is, a nice bit of historical information, that really isn’t relevant today. If you have a swastika tatoo, you will be called out for it, and you have absolutely no right to be surprised. All you’ve got on your arm is an awkward conversation starter (or ender), haha. And no one is going to make a movie out of your life if someone kills you for wearing one in the name of peace.

I think what he is trying to say here, what ryan and dogfaceboy seem to be missing, is that in India and parts of that region it still is a symbol of peace and never meant anything else to them. Hitler usurped the symbol from them and used it for his own purposes, to promote hate and evil. But throughout that period, it was still a symbol of peace to those who religion it originated in. Try to be sensitive to that as well. It never stopped being their symbol.