A couple of male Muslims I went to school with wore scimitar pendants.
I did some quick research - I think it may have been the Sword of Ali.
Cite? I’d need a reliable press article about it before I’d believe that anything located on the south lawn of the White House - under heavy surveillance and tightly guarded by the US Secret Service, who are typically armed with automatic weapons and a healthy paranoia - could be subjected to vandalism.
Pre-9/11?
What if Chelsea did it?
Why would they want to note that? Is there a reason for this post?
That was what I was thinking about too. Wearing one is quite similar to wearing a star of David. Though I don’t think men ever wear the hand.
You mean the Hamsa? That’s not an exclusively Muslim symbol - it’s just as popular as a good luck charm among Middle Eastern Jews and Christians. I have several around my house myself.
December 29, 1997 WASHINGTON - U.S. Park Police are looking for vandals who defaced a sculpture of an Islamic crescent and star erected near the national Christmas tree and giant Hanukkah menorah within view of the White House.
The plywood star was torn down Friday night and covered with a spray-painted swastika.
Meanwhile, the artist who erected the sculpture said he planned to repair and repaint it. Mohamed Said Ouafi of Arlington, Va., said he hoped the vandalism was by youths on a lark rather than an attack on Islam.
http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19971229&slug=2580607
It was actually 14 years ago.
That’s what I thought of immediately when reading the OP.
In theory yes, in practice not really. It is not an exclusively Muslim symbol but it certainly isnt as popular among Christians and Jews than it is among Muslims. Though I have the feeling that there might be a difference between North Africa and the rest of the Middle East on this (and I only know North Africa).
In France at least, and in North Africa, it is quite akin to the wearing of the star of David. And men do wear it.
BTW, nice to see you back clairobscur, was wondering where you had gone.
It’s very popular here in Israel - you see them on necklaces, on charm bracelets and on walls everywhere. I bought my wife a silver *hamsa *on a chain when we found out she was pregnant with our son, for good luck. As an atheist, she’d have been very uncomfortable if I had given her a religious symbol.
OK, there was an incident, but it was not on the south lawn of the white house (which is off limits to the general public); it was in the President’s Park on the ellipse.
Because, as has been noted a thousand times, a Christmas tree has about as much to do with Christianity as a Cabbage Patch Doll does.
If the OP had said, “crucifix” he’d be onto something.
We are not amused.
(Albert talked Victoria into Xmas trees.) 