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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (119259)	11/11/2003 2:55:52 PM
From: Sun Tzu	Respond to of 281500

Then you missed the point. The west chose the centerpiece of Swiss flag for the symbol. The Ottomans chose their own flag's centerpiece for the symbol. And so did the Iranians for that matter (the lion and sun is a very ancient Persian symbol which was the center of the flag). There was nothing religious about any of these. There is nothing in Islam to make Crescent a religious icon. It was simply the icon of the Ottomans who later passed it to their former colonies and the rest of the Arabs which then went on to some of the muslim countries. Relatively speaking this is a very recent event. Muslims do not carry crescent pendants or pray in front of it. The Swiss were known as the symbol of neutrality, so it worked well in the west. However the wrong terminology (they should have just given the symbol a name of its own instead of cross) and lack of cross cultural understanding led to the problem. The issue is simply one of perspective and can be resolved by a shift in such.