Verfasser:	James
Datum:	Freitag, den 15. Juni 2001, um 3:46 Uhr
Betrifft:	Erstaunt und verwundert

Man glaubt es wieder kaum, da liest man dann ihn der kircheneigenen Zeitung vom Hakenkreuz (früher ein "Glückssymbol", bevor es von den Nazis vereinnahmt wurde) in Provo Utah, zu finden in einem Brunnen der Provo Academy Square Bibliothek. Ebenfalls darauf zu finden, eine jüdische Menorah!:

"Thursday, June 14, 2001
 
Provo ’swastika’ is for good luck. Symbol was on original fountain before Nazi era

By Jesse Hyde. Deseret News staff writer

PROVO — Before the swastika became the symbol of Nazis, it was a sign of good luck. In the early 1900s it adorned postcards and coins alongside charms like the four-leaf clover and the upsidedown horseshoe.

The swastika engraved on the fountain at Provo’s Academy Square Library was a symbol of good luck long before it was adopted as Nazi Party symbol.

The swastika’s early history may be the reason one is engraved on a granite fountain in front of the Academy Square Library.
Like the rest of the Academy Square restoration project, the goal in restoring the fountain was to be as accurate as possible, says library director Gene Nelson. That meant restoring the varied symbols that decorated the fountain when it was built, which included a Jewish menorah and a swastika.
"We had a brief discussion about it and decided that we should be as accurate to history as possible," Nelson said.
"It’s not meant as any type of an offensive symbol at all. I can understand and have empathy for those that would be offended about it, but I think if you understand its context its not offensive."
The fountain was finished in 1914, years before the swastika became universally associated with the Nazi regime. It was patterned after a Mayan Indian design, and the Mayans, along with other Indian tribes, are reported to have used the swastika as a religious symbol.
In a book called "The Riddle of the Swastika," Servando Gonzalez, a writer who lives in Oakland, Calif., writes that Indian boys painted the swastika on their shaved heads as a form of benediction and that Navajo medicine men used colored sand to draw swastikas on the ground while performing curative rites.
"The most common misperception about the swastika is that Hitler invented it. The swastika is a piece of history that predates the Nazis," says ManWoman, a Canadian who leads a group called Friends of the Swastika. "The swastika is one of the great sacred symbols, along with the cross and the Star of David."
ManWoman, his legal name since 1967, said he had a dream in which God told him to restore the swastika as a religious symbol. He also had dreams that lead to his name change in which he was both a man and a woman.

The new fountain in front of the Academy Square Library in Provo was built as an exact replica of the originial fountain that was finished in 1914, complete with a swastika, a menorah and other symbols.

ManWoman said he frequently receives e-mails from Hindu, Buddhist and Wiccan groups who appreciate his efforts because they still revere the swastika.
To Irv Rubin, chairman of the Jewish Defense League, the swastika is a symbol of hatred and genocide. In 1998, the Defense League tried to get the city of Glendale, Calif., to remove swastikas from hundreds of street light poles installed before World War II.
At the time, the city attorney, who was Jewish, researched the history of the swastika and found that only swastikas set at a clockwise angle were symbols of the Nazi Party. The city decided not to remove the symbols from the lamp posts.
"We sort of ended up with egg on our face," Rubin said. "If it is clockwise, it represents Hitler and the Nazis, and if it’s counter-clockwise, it’s supposedly a good luck symbol used in Oriental religions. I’ve often said a swastika is a swastika, but nobody follows that line of reasoning."
Rubin said his organization, which has 10 international and 19 national chapters, would not take issue with the swastika at Academy Square because it is not set at a clockwise angle.
ManWoman disagrees with Rubin. He says a swastika, regardless of the direction it seems to be spinning, is a symbol of good luck and unity.
"The swastika was misused by Hitler, but it’s being found and discovered all over the place," he said. "We need to realize that its heritage is being destroyed and it has nothing to do with the Nazis."
That’s a hard pill for Rubin to swallow. He refers to Nazis as filth and advocates violence if necessary to protect Jews.
Rubin finds it intriguing that in addition to a swastika there is a menorah engraved on one of the corners of the fountain. The menorah is a seven-branched candlestick used in the Jewish religion.
"There’s a menorah on it? Wow," Rubin said. "What can I say? Someone was really creative with that fountain."

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