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US T-shirt company sells Nazi swastika design as “symbol of love and peace”

Aug 6, 2017 11:40 am By Robert Spencer

“The company even made a promotional video claiming that the Nazis ‘took the swastika, rotated it 45 degrees, and turned it into a symbol of hatred, fear, war, racism, power.’…On some of the tee shirts sold by KA Designs, the swastika remains turned by 45 degrees, similarly to the Nazis’ use of the symbol.”

Get the picture?

Given the Left’s fanatical hatred of Israel and wholesale acceptance of “Palestinian” jihad propaganda, this is unlikely to have been an accident.

“US T-shirt company sells swastika design as ‘symbol of love and peace,’” by Danielle Ziri, Jerusalem Post, August 6, 2017:

The US-based clothing design website Teespring is selling T-shirts and sweatshirts branded with swastikas, aiming to make them a “symbol of love and peace”.

The designs, created by KA Designs and sold on the site, all display large swastikas in the front. One shows the Nazi-associated symbol in rainbow colors with the word “Peace”, another one with the word “Zen”, one reading “Love” and a third design, in black, shows a spiral of swastikas. They range in price from $20 to $35.

“Here at KA we explore boundaries. We push them forward.” the company wrote as a description for the products. “Let’s make the swastika a symbol of Love and Peace. Together, we can succeed.”

Before being used by Hitler’s German Nazi regime, swastikas were commonly known as an ancient sign used by Hindus and Buddhists carrying positive associations such as auspiciousness and good fortune. KA Designs is attempting to relate the now negative sign to its origins.

The company even made a promotional video claiming that the Nazis “took the swastika, rotated it 45 degrees, and turned it into a symbol of hatred, fear, war, racism, power.”

“They stigmatized the swastika, they won, they limited our freedom, or maybe not?” the video continues. “The swastika is coming back.”

On some of the tee shirts sold by KA Designs, the swastika remains turned by 45 degrees, similarly to the Nazis’ use of the symbol….

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  1. Dave says

    Aug 6, 2017 at 11:53 am

    Left/Liberal are collaborators with Pro-islamonazis. Both support Nazis.

  2. Kay says

    Aug 6, 2017 at 11:53 am

    Lord help us!

  3. Guy Forester says

    Aug 6, 2017 at 11:55 am

    Unfortunately, the Nazi party took something that had a positive symbolism and ruined it for the next 200 years. I think these guys timing is off by about a century, IMHO.

    • nicu says

      Aug 6, 2017 at 12:33 pm

      So true : in Asians culture the Swastika means luck and wealth — for centuries !

    • gravenimage says

      Aug 6, 2017 at 5:14 pm

      Guy and Nicu, the Nazi Swastika is *not* the same symbol as that used by Hindus and Buddhists, as I explain below.

      • Vajapeya says

        Aug 7, 2017 at 1:31 am

        You are right. The symbol was tilted to 45 degrees by the Nazis. Please see this link for a visual comparsion https://www.google.com/search?q=hindu+swastika&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi5wqurssTVAhWCjVQKHVlyDVEQ_AUICigB&biw=1920&bih=950#imgrc=XT1lR2U7OL9k_M:

        • gravenimage says

          Aug 7, 2017 at 3:27 pm

          Vajapeya, the Nazis did not change the Eastern Swastika. The Teutonic Swastika–the “Hammer of Thor”–was already like this. Many cultures–pagan, Hindu, Buddhist, Christian; from India and other parts of Asia to the Middle East and Europe and the Americas–used some version of the Swastika, with many different meanings.

    • john young says

      Aug 7, 2017 at 12:29 pm

      The NAZI swastika is the reverse of the Indian peace sysmbol

  4. Samson says

    Aug 6, 2017 at 11:55 am

    I have seen antique American Native Indian rugs with the same symbol

    Dated 1890-1920
    Interesting…

    • Papa Whiskey says

      Aug 6, 2017 at 12:51 pm

      In a museum I once saw a photo of an American Indian woman in a high-collared “Gibson girl”-type blouse, at the throat of which was a large swastika brooch. This was taken some thirty-odd years before Hitler hijacked the symbol for his malign movement.

      • s says

        Aug 7, 2017 at 12:07 pm

        In Early American history, the swastika was not at a 45 degree turn… and it symbolized the “Good Luck”.. the symbol has a history that is connected to spirituality and used in ancient times..

    • gravenimage says

      Aug 6, 2017 at 5:19 pm

      Actually, these symbols–right-or-left facing–show up all over the world, with various meanings. There are Swastikas on the mosaic floors of Christian churches from the Byzantine era.

  5. Marty says

    Aug 6, 2017 at 12:33 pm

    Only the islamized left could be this perverse.

    • Westman says

      Aug 7, 2017 at 10:58 am

      Perhaps the next “bright leftist idea” will be making replicas of the Nazis’ “potato masher” grenades, with rotating handle, stuffing them with Tibetan prayer scripts and selling them to be spun while reciting mantras.

  6. Andy says

    Aug 6, 2017 at 12:47 pm

    The perversion never stops. My relatives who fought and died to fight this tyrant and what he stood for in WW 2 would be spinning in there graves to see what has happened to the western world and the utter filth and depravity that the west has become, Instead of being a land of hope it has become a land misery for most people now,. You can’t bring third world moslems into a first world nation and expect a good outcome.

    • Andy says

      Aug 6, 2017 at 5:44 pm

      New York Beachgoers Fail to Appreciate Nazi Symbol Banner

      Veterans of the greatest generation and holocaust survivors have to put up with this nonsense.Total disrespect!

      http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/07/beachgoers-fail-to-appreciate-swastika-banner.html

    • gravenimage says

      Aug 7, 2017 at 3:58 pm

      Yes–this Hitler “comedy” is grotesque.

  7. Anonymous says

    Aug 6, 2017 at 12:56 pm

    This news item has absolutely nothing to do with islam or jihad.
    The constant referencing of Hitler and Nazis detracts from the counter-jihad message of this website. When one is tempted to bring up either of the two, one might do well to consider Godwin’s law (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law).

    An off-the-cuff example, Chancellor Merkel is often compared to Hitler. However, the führer wanted to improve living conditions for Germans, whereas the current Chancellor, not so much.

    There are a number of questions on the reasons that motivated Germany into initiating what became World War II. Having read some of the historian David Irving’s articles on the subject, the only thing I can say with confidence about the history of WWII is that it is written by the victors.

    • Andy says

      Aug 6, 2017 at 1:09 pm

      Anonymous says “the führer wanted to improve living conditions for Germans”

      Yeah improve the “living conditions” of Germans” off the backs of slave labor of all the nations the “improved” führer invaded and people who were tortured and murdered and GASSED! Go to you hell you Leftist Globalist little CREEP! and Take your fuher with you!

      • Anonymous says

        Aug 6, 2017 at 5:38 pm

        Your reaction lends some weight to my point. The words Hitler and Nazi polarize people instantly and hence are best left out of discussions not directly related to those topics.

        Was Hitler with or against the globalists? Perhaps this speech will answer that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKmnx_1mzHY&spfreload=10

        • gravenimage says

          Aug 7, 2017 at 4:02 pm

          Anonymous wrote:

          Your reaction lends some weight to my point. The words Hitler and Nazi polarize people instantly…
          …………………..

          Right–how *dare* people have a negative reaction to totalitarianism, tyranny, violent conquest, the crushing of freedom, oppression, and genocide?

      • Phil Copson says

        Aug 8, 2017 at 6:33 am

        Anonymous didn’t say that he approved of the means by which Hitler wished to improve conditions for the Germans, he simply said the camparison between Hitler and Merkel wasn’t a good one, since – unlike Hitler – Merkel’s ambitions are to reduce conditions for the Germans.(And for all Europeans, of course.)
        Conquerors go to war with the intention of improving the fortunes of their own countries at the expense of the conquered countries.
        Socialists prefer to go to war against their own people because they are incapable of creating anything themselves, but long to destroy what others have created, then march about amongst the ruins giving orders to a cowed and poverty-stricken population. This is why the Jeremy Corbyns, Diane Abbotts, and John McDonnells of this world absolutely love Stalin’s Russia, Castro’s Cuba etc.
        Currently, the wreck of Venezuela is their big love-in and role model.

        • Phil Copson says

          Aug 8, 2017 at 6:35 am

          “comparison”….

    • gravenimage says

      Aug 6, 2017 at 5:44 pm

      “Anonymous” wrote:

      However, the führer wanted to improve living conditions for Germans, whereas the current Chancellor, not so much.

      There are a number of questions on the reasons that motivated Germany into initiating what became World War II. Having read some of the historian David Irving’s articles on the subject, the only thing I can say with confidence about the history of WWII is that it is written by the victors.
      ……………………..

      Apologia for the Nazis–*Ugh*. The absurd apologist for Fascism David Irving had ludicrously claimed that Hitler knew nothing about the Holocaust. Insanely, he claimed Hitler to be the “biggest friend the Jews had in the Third Reich”.

      He claimed that Hitler had been “slandered”, and blamed his victims for the war. Yeah–poor old Adolf *had* to invade most of Europe and brutally oppress the populace there. He has been especially adamant that Britain should have rolled over for Nazi aggression, and that it was wrong for them to defend themselves.

      Later, he denied that the Holocaust happened at all. He also hates Israel and wants to see her destroyed. He has also claimed that the Jews deserve antisemitism because they dare to talk about the Holocaust.

      No wonder the repulsive “Anonymous” is anonymous…

  8. stan lee says

    Aug 6, 2017 at 2:57 pm

    The greed to “make a buck” has no requirement to do the right thing. Only about 50 million people were casualties of the war necessary to bury Nazi Germany. ‘Anyone out there have an idea of what 50 million dead bodies looks like?
    It’s been a lifetime for many since we stopped the Nazis and brought many to justice. Face it, people at ages between 65-70 years may probably have no idea about a war started by Hitler in approximately 1938-39. Well, just for a moment, they should put down their comic books and think about 50 million souls that died resulting from megalomaniac Hitler and his followers
    But, wearing the symbol will be considered as “cool” by morons with no orientation to what that symbol became as the standard of Nazism. Sure, you could reverse its arms and have a symbol of American plains people like the Sioux. The swastika goes back even further, to pre-Christianity times when the symbol was to be found in ornamentation of ancient Hebrew Temples.
    But, the modern-day significance links to Nazism and Adolf Hitler’s mirage for world conquest. That “ain’t” much to be proud of, but morons will buy into it, because they have such negative self-images, that they’d embrace anything that would make them appear “different.”
    In this case, “different” amounts to a feeling of inferiority by the individuals wishing to wear such a symbol, which literally is meant to denigrate “Peace.”
    But, why stop with a cheap T-shirt? What about black jack-boots with hob-nailed soles? How about a completely shaved head, devoid of any hair, like worn by a Nazi Storm Trooper?And, how about a toy dagger, in the image of what each S.S. newbie was issued to wear? Just think, book-burning can become an activity all over again!

  9. Rusty says

    Aug 6, 2017 at 3:00 pm

    I don’t really see the point of this article. It seems to me like you’re just giving some edgy t-shirt company free publicity.

    • Alien Republican says

      Aug 6, 2017 at 4:01 pm

      I can’t speak for Mr. Spencer but my understanding is that is represents one of the many cases where cultural symbols in the West are “rebranded”. An extension of the neverending game of changing meanings to political ends.

  10. Tom says

    Aug 6, 2017 at 4:21 pm

    Islamofascism is alive and well and trying to disguise itself as benign.

  11. mgoldberg says

    Aug 6, 2017 at 4:43 pm

    The svastika, was reversed from the nazi symbol. The nazi symbol was that used for the hoped for erasure not merely of the 6 millions of jews it sent to gas chambers, firing squads, but the 5 millions of others it also chose to erase, and the total of 50 millions to win the war to stop the symbol from conquering and destroying even more than they did.
    For some dopey company to sell the ‘macroaggression’ the unbelievably unfeeling notion that they could just use the same symbol as a point of ‘love’ and ‘peace’ is so vulgar as to boil the skin of the living if viewed for what it represents. It represents the denial of the hate that was generated to kill all those innocent souls, and to honor those lost souls does not mean to recreate and innocent version of the hateful, utterly hateful symbol. It takes more than pretending some peaceful version of hate… it takes thinking about what the symbol represented and the firm goal to not allow such hate to grow without understanding again. Which of course is what is happening. The utopians world order globablists demand fealty to their utopian order and the knuckleheads who just click their heels 3 times and say there’s no hate now, only peacccccccceeeeeee…. for 29.95 are beyond vulgar. Sneer and laugh these macroaggressors back to their little rooms to scam some other money dream.

    • Phil Copson says

      Aug 7, 2017 at 3:54 am

      The point is that it gives unpleasant people an excuse to wear the swastika to intimidate others while pretending that intimidation is not the intention. Imagine the thrill it will give the SJWs to strut past a synagogue in a swastika T-shirt whilst claiming that “It’s a symbol of peace”.
      This is the same mind-set as the neighbourhood thug who parades around with the largest, most savage dog he can find whilst assuring people that it won’t bite, or any other group of bearded supremacists who threaten others in the name of “peace”…..

      • Mark Swan says

        Aug 7, 2017 at 10:22 am

        You make a good point here Phil Copson, this shirt with this symbol, will sell to
        the antiJew/antiAmerican—this market seems ready—these shirt sellers see it.

  12. shoehorn says

    Aug 6, 2017 at 4:54 pm

    *socialists re-adopt the swastika*

  13. gravenimage says

    Aug 6, 2017 at 5:12 pm

    Before being used by Hitler’s German Nazi regime, swastikas were commonly known as an ancient sign used by Hindus and Buddhists carrying positive associations such as auspiciousness and good fortune. KA Designs is attempting to relate the now negative sign to its origins.

    The company even made a promotional video claiming that the Nazis “took the swastika, rotated it 45 degrees, and turned it into a symbol of hatred, fear, war, racism, power.”
    ……………………

    Of course, this is just utter ignorance. The Nazi Swastika is not the sign used by Hindus and Buddhists “rotated 45 degrees”–instead, it is the Hammer of Thor, an ancient Teutonic symbol.

    The Swastika has shown up in many parts of the world, with different meanings. But using the Swastika today inevitably invokes connotations of the Third Reich.

    • mousey says

      Aug 6, 2017 at 9:53 pm

      unless you live in india today.

      • gravenimage says

        Aug 7, 2017 at 1:16 am

        True, mousey–I should have noted that using the Swastika in the West today inevitably invokes connotations of the Third Reich.

  14. Guest says

    Aug 6, 2017 at 6:15 pm

    Because of Hitler that symbol will forever represent the worst mankind can be

  15. Larry A. Singleton says

    Aug 7, 2017 at 3:38 am

    I’m not sure where I sit with this. Isn’t the swastika originally a Buddhist symbol?

    And don’t get me wrong; I’ve read more books on World War II than most people including Shirer’s Rise and Fall of the Third Reich when I was sixteen. As a matter of fact I just glanced up at my “Justice Not Vengeance” by Simon Wiesenthal and other “Jewish” books that take up almost three shelves. I’ve got a “STAND WITH ISRAEL” sign in my front window.

    That said, I wonder if someday we’ll ever turn that evil symbol around to what it was originally designed for.

    I haven’t read this article above yet; Is there some kind of evidence that the people behind it have some kind of nefarious purpose?

  16. mortimer says

    Aug 7, 2017 at 5:08 am

    Ho, ho. Now ‘Nazism is peace’ AND ‘Islam is peace’. Hot is cold and Macron is a ‘really’ a socialist.

  17. duh swami says

    Aug 7, 2017 at 8:11 am

    The symbol is a wheel…When it spins to the right, it is the wheel of life…When it spins to the left, its the wheel of death,,,The T shirt and Nazi use spins to the left..

    • Mark Swan says

      Aug 7, 2017 at 12:07 pm

      Thanks duh swami—that does sound reasonable.

  18. Mike says

    Aug 7, 2017 at 11:35 am

    I wonder if they make on with “DEMOCRAT” under it. Then I might consider getting one.

  19. ItsReallyQuiteClear says

    Aug 8, 2017 at 1:22 am

    dacon-nein seems to be expressing hatred for Jews who don’t practice Judaism the way that he claims to practice his religion. He seems not to have a problem with Islam’s attitudes, and actions, toward Jews. My impression of his form of Judaism is that it bears a disquieting similarity to Islam, at least insofar as his intolerance of different branches of his own religion.

    Note: no capital letters were harmed in composing this comment (a few grammatical rules, perhaps). Each use was evaluated carefully for need and appropriateness. Just say’in.

    • gravenimage says

      Aug 8, 2017 at 5:21 pm

      I think you are correct. Very disturbing.

  20. LR says

    Aug 9, 2017 at 12:41 pm

    I wondered about this many years ago…

    Since the ‘swastika’ has been an almost worldwide sacred symbol in various cultures, I wondered if people could ever ‘reclaim’ it?

    Well, people borrow from other cultures all the time…And we live in upside down world, where a University Prof., can literally state that there is no biological difference between and man and woman, and we are suppose to just ho-hum along…

    A few weeks ago, I saw a teacher wearing a red T-shirt with a pic. of Lenin on it with the statement, “If you can read this, then you are a socialist.” Not some rebel kid…A teacher who teaches kids for god’s sake.

    So, since ‘Antifa’ claims to be anti-fascist while acting ‘fascist-like’ when it comes to free speech…I would say,…

    Just print ‘Antifa’ under the symbol…That would be appropo.

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