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Image Source : FREEPIK Australia to ban 'swastika' symbol Australia to ban swastika symbol: The Australian government is planning to pass legislation to ban swastikas and other Nazi symbols nationwide due to an increase in far-right activity, Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus said Thursday. The federal law would go further by outlawing the trade in such materials, Dreyfus said, even though the majority of Australian states already forbid such Nazi symbols. Next week in Parliament “There’s been a rise in this kind of violent far right activity. We think it’s time for there to be a federal law which I’ll be bringing to the Parliament next week,” Dreyfus told Nine Network television. “We’ve got responsibility for import and export. We want to see an end to trading in this kind of memorabilia or any items which bear those Nazi symbols,” Dreyfus said. “There’s no place in Australia for spreading of hatred and violence.” Will not affect use of swastika for Hinduism Displaying symbols for religious, educational or artistic purposes would be among a range of exclusions from the ban. It will not affect the use of the swastika for people observing Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism. History of swastika The swastika is synonymous with fascism in the West, but it goes back thousands of years and has been used as a symbol of good fortune in almost every culture in the world. The word swastika comes from the Sanskrit svastika, which means “good fortune” or “well-being." The swastika is thus und...

• • • • A major New York Jewish organization co-hosted an event in New York this week to debate a subject that most in the city assume has long been settled — whether the swastika is good or bad. While the notorious hooked-cross symbol has long been associated with the evil of Nazism and hate, it has for even longer been revered by Hindus and Buddhists, who argued Monday that swastika was misused by Hitler and its image should be rehabilitated. “This is the most important symbol in Asia. The swastika is a noble symbol. It’s a sacred symbol,” said T.K. Nakagaki, president of the HEIWA Peace and Reconciliation Foundation, during the zoom conference Monday night, which was co-sponsored by Jewish Community Relations Council of NY and various Hindu and Buddhist groups. “There is a lot ignorance about this symbol. It’s a taboo. People think it’s a hateful symbol and that if you use it you’re an evil person.” But Nakagaki said that’s wrong. “Education doesn’t teach what the swastika means. Hitler clearly stole the symbol from the East,” Nakagaki said at the event, entitled “The Swastika in American, Jewish and Asian Cultures.” “Why can’t we return the swastika to its rightful place? The Nazis used it in the wrong way. We have to recognize both — the good side and the bad side.” In both Hindu and Buddhist cultures, swastikas are sacred symbols carved into temples and used for ceremonies. The swastika in Hindu culture dates back more than 5,000 years and is used :”to express luck a...