Dan Hannan MEP posted this story on his excellent blog this morning.
If you look at the symbols that constitute the star there is clearly, amongst the religious symbols, a few hammer and sickles, the Communist symbol synonymous with poverty, fear and death.
There are not words for this new low by the EC. It is estimated that Communism has killed around 100 million people in its long, bloody history.
To put this in perspective, the Holocaust led to the deaths of around 11 million innocents.
Imagine the worldwide outrage if the EU had included a swastika, a symbol of the far left “far right”. Hell would break loose and rightly so. The inclusion of the hammer & sickle among symbols of religion illustrates so clearly the EU’s devotion to the far left.
Disgusting. Truly disgusting.
As much as I despise Communism, being (close to) Libertarian myself, the comparison by Hannan is remarkably weak.
To put things in perspective, as you say, would you stop using the Union Jack in public just because it, just like the hammer and sickle, is a symbol of the nation/empire responsible for more deaths than than Nazi-Germany and more ethnic cleansing than the Holocaust? The United Kingdom have invaded all but 22 countries in the world, but you are still the spokesperson of a party called the United Kingdom Independence Party.
Just to be clear – I am not at all arguing against the Union Jack or UKIP here, just using it to illustrate how rash and unfair Hannan’s ‘This symbols represents this and that many deaths and/or suffering’ comment is.
With that said, I do agree the hammer and sickle had no place in this particular campaign, which was supposed to show the importance of tolerance and diversity in religious beliefs.