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As Nikunj Trivedi says, "To truly build understanding, change and peace, we all must come together and denounce hate by its true name.”

The Nazi symbol is not the same as the ancient Hindu symbol.

The swastika symbol dates back 15,000 years, and to many represents good fortune and luck. But Hitler's Nazis turned it into a sign of hate and evil.

In many parts of the western world, the Swastika has become associated with hatred and the horrors of the Nazi war crimes.

Swastika is a millennia-old sacred symbol in Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism, representing peace and good fortune

In much of the world, the swastika is often equated to Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Germany – a symbol of hate that evokes the trauma of the Holocaust and the horrors

The symbol itself dates back to prehistoric times. The word swastika has Sanskrit roots and means the mark of well being

A movement to redefine and save the swastika in Asian religious and Native American communities is growing. But, the symbol is connected to Hitler, Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. Can a symbol of bad be brought back to an earlier representation of good?

Sheetal Deo was shocked when she got a letter from her Queens apartment building’s co-op board calling her Diwali decoration “offensive” and demanding she take it down. “My decoration said ‘Happy Diwali’ and had a swastika on it,” said Deo, a phy...

For decades, the swastika has been the ultimate symbol of the nazis. But some Asian religions want to reclaim the shape as a part of their faiths.