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* [[Those Wacky Nazis]] appropriating swastikas. The swastika, previous to encounters with India and Buddhism, was already a very popular symbol in the West It was commonly associated with, among other things [[Norse Mythology|Thor]], the god of thunder. In fact, the swastika is so ubiquitous in world cultures that some, including Carl Sagan, theorized that it was, in fact, based off the image of a comet seen straight on. Others have hypothesized that it represents the sun. The Nazis made the mistake of assuming it to be an Aryan symbol above all else, and proved a connection between the mythic white Aryans (real Aryans, AKA Proto-Indo-Europeans, almost certainly weren't blonde-haired, blue eyed Nordics, and resembled North Indians or Iranians<ref>the words "Aryan" and "Iran" are cognates, incidentally</ref>) and the Scandinavian cultures they admired.

* FIFA though it would be a great idea to release a football bearing the flags of the countries that had classified for the 2002 [[The World Cup|World Cup]]. And it would have, if one of those countries wasn't Saudi Arabia, which has the 'Shahada' or declaration of islamic creed sewn into it, taken straight from the Quran. Add to that that [[Values Dissonance|hitting something with your shoes or feet is a supreme insult in Arab culture]] and you can figure where this is going.

* Some coins made in Britain during the Dark Ages like those of King [[wikipedia:Offa of Mercia|Offa of Mercia]] have Arab inscriptions reading "there is no God but Allah" or claiming to have been struck in Damascus a number of years after the Hegira. It is believed that the engravers responsible copied contemporary Abassid gold dinars and mistook the Arabic writing for mere decoration.

* The Saint Peter cross, also known as the Petrine cross, is called as such because Saint Peter requested to be crucified upside-down as he felt unworthy of dying the same way Jesus Christ did, having denied Him three times. It is thus used as a symbol of humility, Saint Peter himself, and the Papacy, if not for [[Death Metal]] bands and satanic cults co-opting it as a mockery of Christianity, and movies portraying demonology and satanic cults further codified it as one to the point that most Catholics have shunned the inverse cross despite its previous history as a Petrine symbol. The Petrine cross controversy also reared its ugly head when a mass held by the late Pope John Paul II was aired showing the cross in question, which prompted some to allege the pontiff as a devil worshipper or even the [[Antichrist]] himself, despite [https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/fbchecks/no-upside-down-cross-used-pope-not-symbol-antichrist assurances to the contrary] by Catholics.