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Well, the Swastika is a symbol derived from Zoroastrians, which is one of the oldest religions. however, Hitler "reversed" it from the original position. Zoroastrians still exist today, and they composed the people from the persian empire, way back before christianity or islam existed. it is believed that the Aryan people moved from their origin into two separate area, one was the area of present Germany and the other was the area of Persia. Hitler researched this, and he knew the people from Persia were "Aryan" descent, so he had sympathy for them. In any event, the german nazis approached Reza Shah Pahlavi, the father of the last shah of Iran, and he was informed that he should change the name of Persia from Persia to IRAN, being, a name to signify the people from Aryan descent. Back to Zoroastrians, they were persecuted by Alexander the Great, and he was out to kill them all, some survived in areas of Persia. Likewise, when the Arabs invaded PERSIA and they forced upon them to convert to Islam or die, most converted, but some of the Zoroastrians did not, and they were able to avert death. In current day Iran, Zoroastrians are a very small proportion of population, less than 5%. Yet, they are not persecuted by the Muslims. However, they are not allowed to marry Muslims, unless they convert. If a muslim person marries a zoroastrian, and they are discovered, the muslim person will be sentenced to death. Also, in Iran, and especially in the capital Tehran, there is a movement of people that are converting from Islam to Zoroastrianism, and they state that people from Iran are originally Persian and not Arabs, and they beliveve that religion was forced upon their ancestors, so now they are converting to the religion of Zoroaster. Interestingly, the Mullahs on friday prayer, tend to remind people not to do this, and they are trying to prevent people from doing this. So prior to 1933, the swastika was known as a symbol for the religion of the ancient persians, which was a polytheistic religion. they had a god of fire, a god of wind, etc... when Hitler took office in 1933, after forcing upon the German people over 4 elections in less than 12 months time, until he finally won, by scaring them, then he full speed ahead began to display the new sign of the third reich, which was the Swastika (different position or direction) from the Persian symbol. So, the symbol is depicting Nazism. My disclaimer: this is in no way a political statement, and it is not intended to hurt anyone's feeling. i am merely trying to explain some history, from what i can recall, when i took a religion class in my University over 20 years ago, that was intended to be a religion class about all religions, presented in an objective way, however, the class was taught to us by a man of Jewish descent. whom was a very nice man, and i believe he did manage to teach to class in an objective fashion.
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