Should the Swastika be Banned in NYC?

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
By Diksha Sahni

Hindu religious men gave final touches to a
folk art piece shaped in the form of the Swastika on Oct. 24, 2011

NEW YORK - The Swastika, a Hindu and Buddhist symbol later associated with Nazi Germany, sparked fresh controversy as local authorities requested a store in a New York borough to stop selling Swastika-shaped earrings because they deemed them offensive. In an interview with Fox News, the store’s manager said the design of the earrings was “not a Nazi symbol.” “I don’t know what’s the problem. My earrings are coming from India as a Buddhist symbol,” she said. In Hindu culture, the Swastika is depicted as an equilateral cross with its arms bent at right angles. In the Nazi version, the Swastika is tilted. The earrings could’ve been either. Experts say that it is difficult to date the origin of the Swastika, with some of its earliest uses dating from the 3rd century B.C.[link]