{"id":18506,"date":"2022-05-29T02:56:22","date_gmt":"2022-05-29T02:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/?p=18506"},"modified":"2022-05-29T02:56:22","modified_gmt":"2022-05-29T02:56:22","slug":"hindu-and-buddhist-groups-express-strong-disappointment-regarding-california-assemblys-passage-of-bill-ab2282-on-swastika","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2022\/05\/29\/hindu-and-buddhist-groups-express-strong-disappointment-regarding-california-assemblys-passage-of-bill-ab2282-on-swastika\/","title":{"rendered":"Hindu and Buddhist Groups Express Strong Disappointment Regarding California Assembly\u2019s Passage of Bill AB2282 on Swastika"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>BAY AREA, CALIFORNIA, May 27, 2022 (COHNA): The Coalition of Hindus of North America (CoHNA) expressed its strong disappointment around California Assembly\u2019s decision to pass Bill AB2282, titled \u201cHate crimes: nooses, crosses, and swastikas,\u201d whose purpose is to criminalize the display of hate symbols. While the bill is well meaning, it perpetuates confusion by once again using false and hateful terms like \u201cNazi Swastika\u201d, missing a historic opportunity to rectify a wrong done to the Buddhist, Hindu and Jain communities by faulty journalism and scholarship in the years following World War 2. Further, the bill actually associates the sacred Swastika with hate and genocide by saying \u201c&#8230;Nazi Hakenkreuz (hooked cross) [is] also known as the Nazi Swastika that was the official emblem of the Nazi party.\u201d  \u201cIn spite of claims that the bill has decriminalized Swastika, the amended language continues to use the word \u2018Nazi Swastika\u2019,\u201d remarked CoHNA president Nikunj Trivedi. \u201cBy passing this bill in its current form and failing to accommodate the concerns of Hindus, Buddhists and Jains in the language, the Assembly has essentially supported the false idea that there is a \u2018good Swastika\u2019 and a \u2018bad Swastika.\u2019\u201d<br><br>\u201cThe English translation has created numerous problems for the Dharmic communities, because in the the German language \u2018Hakenkreuz\u2019 literally means \u2018hooked-cross,\u2019 which is how Hitler and the Nazis referred to their symbol, not \u2018Swastika,\u2019\u201d remarked Reverend Dr. T.K. Nakagaki, president of the Heiwa Peace and Reconciliation Foundation of New York and president emeritus of the Buddhist Council of New York. \u201cYou can say Nazi Hakenkrez, Nazi hooked cross, Nazi hate symbol, but cannot call it \u2018Nazi Swastika.\u2019 The word \u2018Swastika\u2019 belongs to Dharmic traditions and is a particularly important symbol of peace and auspiciousness.\u201d CoHNA has called upon the Hindu, Buddhist and Jain communities to reach out to their lawmakers and urge them to take the necessary steps to ensure that the bill is amended with appropriate references to the Nazi symbol of hate (\u201cHakenkreuz\u201d or \u201chooked cross\u201d) versus the sacred Swastika.<br><br>More at source.<br><a href=\"https:\/\/cohna.reportablenews.com\/pr\/hindu-and-buddhist-groups-expresses-strong-disappointment-regarding-california-assembly-s-passage-of-bill-ab2282-on-swastika\">https:\/\/cohna.reportablenews.com\/pr\/hindu-and-buddhist-groups-expresses-strong-disappointment-regarding-california-assembly-s-passage-of-bill-ab2282-on-swastika<\/a><br><br>For additional information and educational materials on the Swastika, please visit <a href=\"https:\/\/cohna.org\/swastika\">https:\/\/cohna.org\/swastika<\/a>.<br><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BAY AREA, CALIFORNIA, May 27, 2022 (COHNA): The Coalition of Hindus of North America (CoHNA) expressed its strong disappointment around,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18511,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18506"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18512,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18506\/revisions\/18512"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}