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Indian Man Names Clothing Store After Hitler, Jewish Residents Not Amused

By Moye | Thursday, August 30, 2012 | 17 Comments

A man in Ahmedabad, India recently named his new clothing store “Hitler” (complete with swastika), not realizing that rule #3 in Things To Never Ever Do In The 21st Century is to associate one’s business with Nazis and/or the Holocaust. The kicker is that after locals raised their ire over the offensive name, owner Rajesh Shah said “‘I will change it (the name) if people want to compensate me for the money we have spent — the logo, the hoarding, the business cards, the brand.’” But why? “Hitler” was his strict grandfather’s nickname and Shah said, “‘It was only when the store opened I learnt Hitler had killed six million people.’” The more you know, people. The more you know.

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  • JohnVox

    Perhaps you are not aware that India was a British colony, and as a result Indian rebels allied themselves with the Axis during WW2. There was a lot of support for Germany and Japan during that time, and its very much part of the mainstream culture. Look up Indian national hero Subhas Chandra Bose. Many parents have indeed named their sons Hitler. It might be offensive to Americans but the appreciation of the German armies was not due to any anti-Jewish feeling but due to anti-British feelings. Its not always right to view Asian countries through the American perspective. The more you know, people. The more you know.

  • JohnVox

    I also wanted to ask if the symbol was the Nazi swastika or if it was used as a good luck Hindu swastika symbol that is still quite popular among Hindus. They often paint it on the entrance to the house. The Hindu one has a couple of dots on the side …

  • AsiansWearFur

    Look folks, all the Pogroms and Holocaust were terrible crimes committed by White Europeans against White Jewish, please stop the brainwashing that tries to make Asian, Blacks and everyone else (especially Palestinians) feel guilty about what is White on White crimes that tries to limit our freedom and expressions of our lives. No thanks! We do not want the White Shame/White Guilt and all the trash that has and still is going on between Whites and their Judeo-Christian fundamentalist intrigues against Islam and Middle East crimes that has damaged our sense of security and confused our civility and morality with sectarian violence and terrorist blame-games. If the name Hitler is banned, then let’s consider changing the name of Bush’s Baked Beans, because Bush and his Neo-Nazi, I mean Neo-Con population of Judeo-Christian fundamentalists are also war criminals.

  • mybiasbeatsyourbias

    Holocost was also against black,homosexuals and well anyone who was against Hitler Nazi party.

  • mybiasbeatsyourbias

    If its tilted to the right it is Nazi. Not tilted it is Hindus. Hitler is more I should say most offensive to Germans. He destroy a beautiful nation and spilt it into two. Until the wall came down in the 1980s. Yes the Nazi party exist today but they have no political voice or public speaking. Germans do not speak of the Nazis anymore without being negative. I’ve been to Germany you don’t openly admit you are Nazi. It is not an American attitude to be against Nazi. Its Germans themselves who are the most against Nazis and Hitler.

  • mybiasbeatsyourbias

    Amazes me how people do not think Nazis offends Germans the most. The only Nazi party that is gaining attention is in Russia. They target central and other Asians. As well any foreigner who is taking jobs. Instead of attacking those companies who hire them for cheap labor. They attack and bully the foreign workers. Even foreign students are being target by Russin underground Nazi and/or skin head parties. I don’t see how this culture when its destroys than anything else.

  • AsiansWearFur

    well 25% of americans are also against blacks and over 50% against homosexuals, but that doesn’t change the statement i made earlier. why group blacks (or asians) with homosexuals anyways? the struggle for gay sex and prop 8 is very different from ethnic minority inclusion in the majority ruled regime.

  • dragoneyez

    Why are we stereotyping people and lumping everyone into one-size-fits-all categories? I’m from a Judeo-Christian background so now, I, as well as my entire lineage, are considered war criminals? Get to know a person before indiscriminately branding them. Every single person possesses a unique set of values and comes from an even more unique background. If we commit to more open-minded discussions, maybe we can better see and understand where the other party is coming from. We might just be surprised…and we might even learn some things. Regarding Hitler, he not only murdered 6 millions Jews, he also murdered Christians, many of them pastors, who dared to disagree with his heinous directives. Two of these pastors were Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Martin Niemoller. Due to sheer paranoia, he also murdered many of his own followers who he delusionally suspected of being traitors. Having said that, if the laws in India allow the man in this article to use such a name for his shop, then he has all the right to do so.

  • AsiansWearFur

    you have overlooked (deliberately?) what I really said: Judeo-Christian FUNDAMENTALISTS encroaching within our domestic and foreign policies for sectarian political intrigues that have confused us as an honest secular nation, now in a state of paranoia against those who our Judeo-Christian fundamentalist leaders brand as “Islamic fundamentalist” (ie singer songwriter Cat Stevens) or “terrorists” (ie democratically elected government of Gaza Palestine).

  • dragoneyez

    I had no problem reading exactly what you wrote. Jihad is the Muslim goal of converting the world to Islam. Those who refuse to convert will be murdered. This goal has absolutely nothing to do with a country’s foreign policies. You obviously haven’t heard the increasing Christian executions in many Islamic countries – thousands of them – in Egypt, Iran, etc… One of my friends visited a mosque in a Middle Eastern country and right inside was a huge sign that said, “Death to Israel.” This isn’t drummed-up paranoia. It’s reality.

  • AsiansWearFur

    Well this takes me back to the first issue about how Whites want Asians and Blacks to become mired in your Christian vs Islam sectarian violence: the Pogroms and Holocaust were “White on White” crimes in which Europeans committed against those Jewish folks in Europe. While this failed European efforts to eliminate Jews from Europe, the Judeo-Christian states (including USA) then had the novel idea to enact the UN Resolution 181 Segregation Pact to create a Jewish state, helping create mass exodus of Jewry from all around the world, especially the Askenazis from Europe, into a heavily militarized new state of Israel, which in turn caused a mass exodus of Palestinians refugees off their homeland, which is a serious crime against humanity.

    Unfortunately, this sparked the bulk of the Islamic fundamentalism and “Jihad” against the evil political intrigues and colonial-territorial carvings done by none other than the great “Judeo-Christian states” that had the biased and loaded majority vote within the UN at the time. Now the sick White Guilt of militarist Christiandom and Islam sectarian violence is locked in a vicious circle while all the innocent people not associated in this sectarian violence gets caught up in it. We even have to create wars out of false pretense to further subjugate the region, only leading to more violence and bloodshed of innocent women and children. Our Presidential candidates Obama and Romney even have to don the Kippah, sign sick new military deals with Israel in order to win the popular vote of our so-called “secular democracy”.

    Please. Nobody needs to hear any more propaganda about Muslim fundamentalism or Jihad. America, the West, especially Israel and all of Democracy must come clean with their “Judeo-Christian Jihad” against Islam for the last half-century.

  • dragoneyez

    In this country and many around the world, we are endlessly preached at by Muslims and their supporters to practice peace, tolerance, etc. toward them. How hateful of us not to close our mouths/eyes/ears while they freely injure or murder those who dare say anything against them or their beliefs! This is intolerance in its highest form. People have come to believe that they can say anything vile about any other religion, but when it comes to Islam, it’s against the law; it’s HATE speech. I see it all the time. Sites allow the most vitriolic comments about Christianity, yet immediately delete any comments against Islam. It’s pure cowardice and an extremely disturbing trend. This has always been the M.O. of Muslim takeovers – making the host country afraid of “offending” them. That’s the operative word for the big “in” of a hostile takeover.

    If the Palestinians so wanted a Palestinian state, why didn’t they bring up the issue while they were under Jordanian rule? Why did they only wait until they were under Israeli rule? Because they want to use this issue to destroy Israel. It’s a doctrinal goal of Islam to destroy the Jews. It has nothing to do with borders. All Israel wants is peace. Case in point: Back in 1979, when Egypt agreed to be at peace with her, Israel gave Egypt the entire Sinai Peninsula, an area larger than Israel itself. No, the problem is not unwillingness to share land. There has never been, in the history of the world, a state in that area (geographically called Palestine) that was NOT Jewish. Israel is the third autonomous Jewish state to exist in that area. There were no other autonomous states – Arab, Muslim or otherwise.

    Israel is smaller than the state of New Jersey. But, if a martian were to visit the UN or read earth’s newspapers, they would be led to believe that this tiny country is one of the biggest problems on earth. Between 2006 and 2010, the UN Human Rights Commission condemned Israel in 20 of its 25 resolutions. Why? Because most of the UN now consists of Muslim or Muslim-supporting nations.

    If Israel were to put down its arms today, it wouldn’t exist tomorrow. If the Arabs were to put down their arms today, there would be peace tomorrow. The Hamas mottos are: “We love death as much as the Jews love life.” and “There is no better blood than the blood of Jews.” They constantly broadcast their goal of killing off all the Jews. What they say is exactly what they plan to do. Their ultimate goal is a Muslim world, at all costs.

  • http://profiles.google.com/v7910723 Verizon VX6800

    So, you are some kind of right wing nutcase. You just happen to have also thrown in a “Asian” agenda. You’re obviously a homophobic person, the fact that you think homosexuals have “nothing” to do with Asians says it all. Newsflash: Asians are equally likely to be homosexual.

    Asians, and other people interested in equality logically group themselves together as a block with the people they think are most interested in pursuing that equality. Ethnic minority inclusion already exists for Asians in the US, at least 10 currently in the congress, and a higher number of cabinet members in various presidential administrations. Want more? Contribute to primary candidates, you like. But other people have concerns larger than making sure the face of the person representing them looks like theirs (on that count you again fit in very well with members of the far right).

  • AsiansWearFur

    it’s true, ethnic minority struggle in the USA really has little relevance in the homosexual/LGBT agenda. you shouldn’t feel left out and accuse me of homophobia. if you care about ethnic minority rights and breaking the glass ceiling, let them advance in our society without the LGBT attachment, in other words, let them be free to express themselves as ethnic minority and Americans: as most of them are heterosexuals supporting their traditional family values. don’t corral ethnic minorities into left wing nut cases. i’m not homophobic, nor am I a Right Wing: I’m like most of those you wish to corral into the Left Wing agenda – Middle of the Road.

  • AsiansWearFur

    Well if I’m to use history as an example to place perspective upon Western people’s Islamo-phobia, I would go straight to famous Battle of Talas between the largely Buddhist-Confucian and Taoist-Shaman state of the Tang Dynasty versus the Muslim state of the Abbasid Caliphate. To make a long story short, the battle demarcated the maximum extent of the Muslim-sphere and the maximum extent of Buddhist and the Asian folk-religious influences. There was no sectarian violence and Islamo-phobia for the remainder of the Tang Dynasty or the proceeding Song Dynasty: they all remained at peace with their Muslim neighbors to the West for the next 550 years, and China was a fine example of how the Church, Mosque and Temple peacefully coexists under a unified secular empire. It was not until the rise of Mongol Empire that the Khwarazmian Empire under Ala ad-Din Muhammad made the grave mistake of killing the members of a Mongol caravan, which ignited the infamous westward expansion of the Mongol Empire, along with their Chinese artillery, engineering and medical corps of the rising Yuan Dynasty, drove the bloody Mongol war machine all the way beyond the Danube River in the early 1240′s. The Mongols were truly brazen and calculatedly militaristic. There behavior then is now emulated by military adventurists here in the modern day West/Western hegemony, their military superiority will ultimately reach a breaking point, the prospect of which drives the maddness of modern day Islamo-phobia that Western Judeo-Christian fundamentalist constituents want to impress upon the Asians: no thank you. Asians have already been through all that. If America/EU and allies want to repeat history, please count us out. I know the rhetoric is that Iran is developing nuke warheads, and sanctions are being thrown around everywhere to teach them a lesson, but I’ll to say that, based on the performance of history, Israel is no less a nuke WMD threat to everyone than those the West accuse of being nuclear rogue states.

  • dragoneyez

    You failed to answer my question about why the Palestinians never once demanded a Palestinian state while under Jordanian rule – not once. This is a critical question and I’m alluding to this specific situation.

    Have you ever visited Israel? The fact is, many Palestinians covertly admit to living a peaceful life under Israeli rule. The disparity between the Jewish side of Jerusalem and the Palestinian side is astounding. The Jewish side is clean and vibrant while the other side is the complete opposite.

    Rhetoric about Iran’s nuke warheads? The Iranian leaders themselves have been promulgating their plans from day one. What do you think is happening in the MIddle East right now? A bloody and violent Iranian coup is destroying anyone that gets in its way or refuses to comply. The United States of Islam is being created, a Muslim caliphate. Until recently, people balked at the predicted unification of Europe. Then came the EU.

    Continuing this discussion is pointless. Because of your blatant Judeo/Christiano-phobia, you simply can’t, or maybe refuse, to see the obvious.

  • AsiansWearFur

    well that’s a rhetorical question: Native Americans never once demanded a Native American state from the European immigrants overrunning the land here, so we killed most of them with weapons and germs. While many modern day American nationals, especially Judeo-Christian types will say Native Americans are living a peaceful life under the so called Democratic/Republican bipartisan rule, Native Americans in fact suffer the highest rates of birth-mortality in the Western developed world, highest rates of alcohol and drug abuse, highest rates of suicides, their cultural and ethnic identity continuously marginalized, they suffer highest rates of indigenous language death, their lands raped for coal, uranium, rare earth, etc, mining profits. Palestinians on the other hand still have their native-indigenous tongue, their culture, their religion, their ethnic identity, the clothes on their backs, their memories of the Nakba in which they were expelled from their homeland to pave way for the questionable and heavily militarized state of Israel. Of course the obvious is easy to see, but justice and humanity ravaged by the UN resolution 181 to segregate the holy land is not obvious, even to us “free people” of the West, blinded by incessant pro-Israel/Islamo-phobic propaganda by our “free press”.

    I did have family members visit Israel, as well as Palestinian refugee camps. They’ve seen first hand, the flip side of the Western “free press” propaganda coin.

 
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