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Originally Posted by Wolster
Unfortunatley, this has already happened. Particularly with the English flag, the Cross of George. A few years back, in a town next to the one I lived in called Bath the Cross of George was taken down from the town hall as people had complained it was a racist symbol!!
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This is the basis of my argument. The Cross of George was never intended to be a racist symbol, nor is it. However, if a group is so inclined as to separate all else contacted with the cross and based on isolated historical events deem it evil, does that make it so?
All through history evil men have found ways to reinterpret symbols of both nations and religions to serve their own agenda. Both the Bible and Qur’ān are contemporary examples.
If tomorrow, the nazis of today decided to adopt the Golden Arches as their symbol, should we then as righteously indignant souls storm and torch every McDonalds and ban the corporate logo?
With the exception of a few militant nutritionists, most would find the thought absurd.
It is not the symbols these people adopt that need to stamped out, it is the evil intent of the people who adopt them.
A neo-nazi racist who wraps himself in a Union Jack is not a blanket condemnation of the British people.
No more than pinning an Iron Cross, minus the swastika, on the chest of a contemporary deserving German solider opening the flood gates for a second Holocaust.