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Here's something that happens only in India...What do you think?

The Reserve Bank recently issued new Two-Rupee coins that had a smaller-than-usual set of Ashoka Lions one one side and altogether dispensed with the map of India on the other. In its place we have a cross-shaped figure that to me seemed to be four humans holding up their hands in harmony.( It is the picturistation of "Unity in Diversity" according to RBI) But no, something like that could not be allowed to pass when a juicy controversy could be milked out of it. Now the cross has come to represent sinister plans to christianise the nation, with Italian-born Congress President Sonia Gandhi being the usual supect. Phrases like "sentiments of the communities"and "minority appeasement" are already flying about and the 24*7 "news" channels are having a field day. For a picture of the new coin, see: http://www.tribuneindia.com/2007/20070106/biz.htm For an idea of how the internet-enabled idiot's mind works, please visit: http://www.newstodaynet.com/2007sud/mar07/210307.htm

Public Comments

1. i signed a petition to stop that happening, obviously didn't work :( I think it's wrong to use christian symbols on the currency of a country that has many different religions.
2. Doesn't look very Christian to me. Every plus sign and X marking the spot is not a cricifix in disguise.
3. It looks exactly like people coming together from the Four Directions (we Native American people have that concept, and it's easy for me to see it.) Not for nothing, but a country that still discriminates on the basis of what caste you're born into (yeah, the constitution says you can't but you all do anyway) needs all the help it can get.
4. I'M SCARE TOO SEE THE 2ND LINK BECUZ LOT OF CHRISTIANITY...I AM MUSLIM....................
5. OK well it doesnt look like a cross to me rather a cross. The cross is generally not so symetrical.
6. You can only keep your open mind...and let the scared run around like chickens ...it is sad ..but that is not a cross...
7. other than two intersecting lines it doesn't look anything like a cross.