SANGH DOCTORS DROP RED CROSS FOR SWASTIK
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Our Correspondent
THE TELEGRAPH
Friday, April 11, 2008
[Caption] Amin's clinic with the Swastik.
- Telegraph picture
Ahmedabad, April 3 - Gujarat doctors leaning towards the
Sangh parivar are promoting the use of the Swastik instead
of the Red Cross.
Several, like Dr Bharat Amin, have already switched over to
the Swastik. His clinic in Paldi sports the symbol, long
used in major world religions such as Hinduism, Roman
Catholicism, Buddhism and Jainism.
Once in common use around the world without stigma, the
Swastik became controversial after the Nazis adopted it as
their symbol.
Amin said those who associated the Swastik with the Nazis
were ignorant. "The Swastik was well known for centuries
before the Nazis adopted it. This is very much our cultural
symbol, described in our scriptures," he said.
The Swastik being used by the doctors is different from the
Nazi Iron Cross, he said. The doctors are using the Hindu
variation with four dots in the four segments.
Amin says that within a month, over 1,000 doctors in
Gujarat who are affiliated to Arogya Bharti are likely to
switch over to the Swastik from the Red Cross.
Arogya Bharti, an organisation of medical practitioners
that is attached to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, will
request other doctors to use the Swastik, too. "It is our
cultural symbol; no one should have any problems with it,"
Amin said.
Doctors affiliated to the Arogya Bharti have begun printing
fresh visiting cards, letter pads, and clinic and hospital
banners that sport the Swastik, said Pravin Bhavsar,
treasurer of the organisation.
The Indian Medical Association has sought an explanation
from its Ahmedabad arm on the use of the Swastik. Amin and
Bhavsar find this strange.
They said that the souvenir for the IMA convention in
Nagpur last year had carried an article, Red Cross versus
Swastik, which was reproduced in the bulletin of the
Ahmedabad Medical Association last February. "Why should
the IMA object to it now?" Bhavsar said.
He said the idea took shape after widespread "misuse" of
the Red Cross.
The symbol can only be used by members of the Red Cross
Society or the armed forces medical service. "Ever since we
learnt that there were objections to the misuse of the Red
Cross symbol, known the world over as the sign of medical
help, we have been thinking of an alternative," he said.
"In November, when we met in Bhopal during our national
convention, we started the campaign for the Swastik.
Doctors and medical practitioners affiliated to the Arogya
Bharti then decided to promote the Swastik and issued an
appeal to their colleagues asking them to switch over,"
Bhavsar said.
M.C. Patel, president of the Ahmedabad Medical Association,
feels there is nothing wrong in using the Swastik. Although
he claims he is not affiliated to the Arogya Bharti, he
argued the Swastik was an auspicious sign.
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M. Ranjit Mathews
Jai Maharaj) wrote:
> Sangh doctors drop Red Cross for Swastik
>
> Our Correspondent
> THE TELEGRAPH
> Friday, April 11, 2008
>
> [Caption] Amin's clinic with the Swastik.
> - Telegraph picture
>
> Ahmedabad, April 3 - Gujarat doctors leaning towards the
> Sangh parivar are promoting the use of the Swastik instead
> of the Red Cross.
"Instead of the Red Cross" is inaccurate. The Red Cross is an
organization (more precisely, it is a collection of organizations with
a similar charter) and only doctors in the employ of the organization
use the Red Cross. Other doctors use nothing. So, these Gujaratis are
promoting the Swastik instead of nothing, not the Swastik instead of
the Red Cross. BTW, the Red Cross is outlawed in some Muslim
countries; in order for such an organization to be allowed there, it
had to be called the Red Crescent. In the case of the Red Crescent,
one may say "Red Crescent instead of the Red Cross".
> Amin said those who associated the Swastik with the Nazis
> were ignorant. "The Swastik was well known for centuries
> before the Nazis adopted it.
The Nazis didn't adopt it; the Nazis adopted the haukenkreuz.
> This is very much our cultural
> symbol, described in our scriptures," he said.
In the scriptures, eh? Which scripture and where in the scripture?
uNmaiviLambi
Jai Maharaj) wrote:
> Sangh doctors drop Red Cross for Swastik
>
> Our Correspondent
> THE TELEGRAPH
> Friday, April 11, 2008
>
> [Caption] Amin's clinic with the Swastik.
> - Telegraph picture
Quite appropriate. Swastika arose from yantra in agama shastra
Should avoid Red Cross, Crescent with its colonial false religious
symbolism
Swastika means well being etc
Red Tilak?
Please see swastika in ancient Greece, Native Americans etc etc: