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Thread #46779   Message #697177
Posted By: Troll
24-Apr-02 - 12:53 AM
Thread Name: BS: Israeli soldiers charged with war crime
Subject: RE: BS: Israeli soldiers charged with war crime
If you will READ my post instead of allowing your knee-jerk reactions to take over, you will find that I said that I could see how the refusal to allow the Star of David to be an official Red Cross symbol could be construed as anti-Semitic since the reason the Crescent is used by Muslims is that they object, on religious grounds, to wearing a cross.
Whats good for one should be good for the other.
I am unaware of any symbol that readily identifies the Hindu, the Shinto or the Zoroastrian, but the Mogen David is known the world over as the symbol of Judaism.
In conclusion, I don't believe that ANYONE should have to wear a symbol that represents a religious belief that they don't subscribe to. But that is what the Red Cross would require of the Jews and Hindus and any other faith but Christianity and Islam.
If this is whining, so be it.

troll