Other peoples business!!!??? >>> WTF izza matter with your BRAIN!!!

OOooooh yusay yur a non-believing Muslimmo who cannot do his own research on Hitler & company.

IGNORANT, except for the swastikkkkah part. Since the muslims were HITLERS allies in the war I suppose you don wan no >>> part of owning up to it either.

1.Swastika is an ancient Hindu symbol

2. To Indians seeking independence from Britain Hitler was a hero

3. None of these people would have been protesting if he named his store "Stalin", even as that SOB killed twice as many people as Hitler.

denko95

Yes Muslims did fight with Hitler and so did Jews. Six of Hitlers generals were Jews and there were also two full divisions of Jews that fought for Hitler. So learn a little history before saying something is wrong with someones brain.

Max, yes, the swastika is a Hindu symbol, but pairing with the name Hitler makes it somewhat suspect that they had no idea what 'Hitler' was.

Some people also need to do more research, the Buddist symbol goes to the right and not the left as the Nazi symbol does. I have a diificult time believing this was accidental and not a publicity stunt.

How stupid is this guy? Seriously - are you telling me he had no idea what that name and symbol stand for? If so then you don't need to be a business owner. If it was a publicity stunt - then you failed and you don't get a second chance (sorry dumbass)

THe Swastika is a hindu symbol, however the swastika in the sign is not the original Hindu version, it is the one that was rotated and used in the Nazi flag. The Hindu version is not on a diagonal slant like that.

Also in Hindu the Swastika is a symbol of Shakti "Shakti embodies the active feminine energy Prakriti of Purusha, who is Vishnu in Vaishnavism or Shiva in Shaivism. Vishnu's female counterpart is called Lakshmi, with Parvati being the female half of Shiva." If you look at the casual menswear in the display, I find it hard to believe that they intended to invoke "feminine energy" as part of their branding.

Also - Hitler's opinion of India was not very nice. Any Indian who thinks of Hitler as a hero is as much a nut as those who think of him that way at home. The goal of the Axis was never Indian independence, they just wanted to replace the British with German, Italian and Japanese.

Hitler's views on India were disparaging.[57] He considered the British colonial rule of the subcontinent as an exemplary one and intended the German rule in the occupied East to resemble it.[57] Hitler thought little of the Indian independence movement, declaring the freedom fighters of being racially inferior "Asiatic jugglers".[57] As early as 1930 he spoke of the Indian freedom movement as the rebellion of the "lower Indian race against the superior English Nordic race", and that the British were free to deal with any subversive Indian activists as they liked.[58] In 1937 he told the British Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax that the British should "shoot Gandhi, and if this doesn't suffice to reduce them to submission, shoot a dozen leading members of the Congress, and if that doesn't suffice shoot 200, and so on, as you make it clear that you mean business."[58] Nazi ideologist Alfred Rosenberg stated that although the Vedic culture was Aryan in origin, any Nordic blood had long since been lost due to racial mixing.[57] Like Hitler, he viewed the British rule in India as being desirable.

On 18 January 1942, it was decided that the Indian subcontinent was to be divided between the Axis powers. Germany was to take the part of British India which is today approximately Pakistan, while the rest was marked for Japan.[57] blockquote>

Sorry, but if he honestly didn't know and used the swastika in the dot like that he's an incredibly lucky idiot to use them in this way or it was intentional. No one in their right mind believes this was an accident.

Regardless of whether or not the swastika is a cultural symbol in Indian and Middle-Eastern culture or not, you do not see it in signs or as part of any advertisements as part of common life. It was a more common symbol historically, not in the 20th or 21st century.

I don't see it as a matter for the Israeli embassy to get involved in though. It's a small store in a city. Who cares, it's not like he's getting royalties or something.

Hey, I was going to open an ice cream shop named "Jeffrey Dahmer's Delights". Now Im having second thoughts, after doing an internet search. Turns out, Mr. Dahmer didn't keep much ice cream in his freezer.

Denko don’t be a buthole. You are just like the NAZI it seems any
time you get you blame it on the Muslims. The shop owner is a Hindu not a
Muslim and yes the European history of mass murder is generally not taught in
the east so most people don't really know about the genocide until they look it
up not like in US where we hear about it a lot. The funny thing is that we in
the west never learn about the past mistake even when it is in our faces.

I wonder what happened to this guy saying that he could not afford to change the name because he could not afford new signage. In an earlier article he said he would only change the name if others gave him the money to do it. I guess with all the outrage and negative publicity over the name he found a way to come up with the money. I do not buy that he did not know exactly what he was doing when he used that name. I think he was counting on getting the publicity out of it but did not count on just how negative the feelings would be. And for those who keep making excuses about the swastika being an ancient Hindu symbol, please educate yourself a little. Yes, there is an ancient Hindu symbol that resembles the swastika, but it was oriented in the opposite rotational direction of the one Hitler used. The one used by the store owner to dot the "i" in the name is not the Hindu version, it is the Nazi one.

I guess this means the Raelian "Swastika Restoration Day" has been ineffective...?

Maybe next year.

The nazis got the swatika from india. Hitler wanted a ancient connection to the indo-europeans, aka aryans.

Max 108

get your facts straight--Hitler killed approx 12,000,000; Stalin killed approx 6,000,000

i think it was the other way around. Stalin was worse by far!

The name of his business is his business; you don't like it, don't do business with him. Harassing him with odd time phone calls is a chargeable crime. Is there a patent on the name (they issue patents on most idiotic things!)

The most widely accepted figure for Stalin's deaths are around 20 million or so. Some have estimated that number could be as high as 60 million, others put it as low as 10 million. The exact number is hard to pinpoint and depends largely on whether you count only those who were executed or those who died from the horrendous conditions of his network of labor camps. Both Stalin and Hitler were equally monsters, I don't think it serves any great purpose to argue which one was the "better" monster.

Buster2010, you need to study up or name 6 generals and the 2 units and where they were Bonehead. That's the problem with Republicans you guys lie about everything. If you can't figure up a lie fast enough you'll make one up.

Buster2010

Yes Muslims did fight with Hitler and so did Jews. Six of Hitlers generals were Jews and there were also two full divisions of Jews that fought for Hitler.

German divisions were named, or numbered, or both. Which divisions are you referring to?

mquira--

"I cant stand when terrorist countries like the US, UK and Isreal try to play the nice guy, when they drone and kill innocent women and children in false wars!"

Must be nice to be living in a wonderful, non-terrorist country like, what, Iran? That is where you are from, right? No? Then Pakistan, surely...

Do us all a favor, stay the hell away from the US of A!

There were Jewish soldiers, Bryan Mark Rigg recently published a book about it. Most of them didn't consier themselves to be Jewish, and were already in the military. These were people who had some Jewish ancestry in their background that would have classified them as Jews under the Third Reich.

an excerpt:

The process of investigation and removal, however, was marred by a highly inconsistent application of Nazi law. Numerous "exemptions" were made in order to allow a soldier to stay within the ranks or to spare a soldier's parent, spouse, or other relative from incarceration or far worse. (Hitler's own signature can be found on many of these "exemption" orders.) But as the war dragged on, Nazi politics came to trump military logic, even in the face of the Wehrmacht's growing manpower needs, closing legal loopholes and making it virtually impossible for these soldiers to escape the fate of millions of other victims of the Third Reich.

But it really isn't important in the end, it in no way implies that Jews approved of Hitler, or that Hitler wasn't out targeting Jews. It's interesting what people will do to save themselves or their loved ones, but otherwise it doesn't really make any difference.

Max - Swastika is an ancient Hindu symbol.

You are correct, except the Nazis put the symbol at a 40-degree angle and turned it into their own representation. That was a very unfortunate thing to do for historical purposes.

@tweeky - http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/cgi-bin/blogs/voices.php/2008/01/21/p22696

Stalin's policies killed at least 10 million in Ukraine alone.

Nazi use of swastika goes back to the German folk movements that started in early 1800's. That symbol was used in prehistoric Europe and America as well

The SS division that was Muslim was the 13. Waffen-Gebirgs-Division der SS Handschar

this division was anti-partisan in Yugoslavia, Croatia, etc. nasty reputation.. It abdicated when Russians were on it's doorstep. This division was raised in 1943 when Heinrich Himmler saw that the German Aryan manpower pool was drying up and then with Hitler's approval began to recruit non German people to volunteer to fight in SS divisions. Lots of these divisions were thrown into the forray on the Russian front. Lots of them were ahnihilated, but one stands out, the Wallonian (Belgian volunteers-28. SS-Freiwilligen-Panzer-Grenadier-Division Wallonien. These guys fought bravely and put a hurting on the Russians. Anyway..

point is, muslims DID fight for hitler.

Do people know that 2.5 million Indians fought on the side of the Allies in World War 2 ?

India has always welcomed Jews, and people of all faiths. It is a very tolerant country. (In a nation of one billion, you are bound to find a few fools.)

Over 2.5 million Indians fought on the side of the Allies in World War 2. However, the school history textbooks there do not have detailed information on the Holocaust. I think many people there( unless they do reading on their own)----are not aware about the horrible things the Nazis did.

Welcome to Torq's, come in for a stretch.

Now that's funny!

It's still too soon for a Hitler store. I can open a store and call it Genghis Khan and I'm sure it won't offend many people.

Good point. although as someone mentioned, Stalin killed alot more, estimates have been as high as 40,000,000.... strange how he has not been demonized as much as his arch enemy...

No one expected that name change.... Come on now. Who's going to hit the softball. ;)

yep we have two of them in town: Genghis Grill-The Mongolian BBQ Grill and Stir Fry

12th century Mongol warriors, led by the mighty warrior,GENGHIS KHAN heated their shields over open fires to grill food in the fields of battle!

I hope they don't still use the shields to cook on ;-)

@ Con-Science,

Yeah, I post "Why is the Hammer and Sickle of Communism not a hated symbol." Stalin and Mao killed almost six times as many people. I guess communism is an acceptable form of government.

It isn't that he only recently learned about Hitler and what Hitler did. This is common knowledge in India. What he learned was the cultural implications of the name outside of India, mostly in the US and Israel... which, uh, who cares? His shop wasn't in the US or Israel.

This is just a case of two different cultures not understanding each other, except in this case, one of the cultures feels as if it is important enough to force its will on the other.

So what you are saying Alan is that if I wanted to open a shop called "Gandhi Sucks" that would be alright since its in the US and not India? With how tied the world is today you have to be a little more savvy than to say that "my shop is not in your country so eff off." Also Hitler isnt just some small time name in history, but the perpetrator of the biggest and most offensive war crimes in the modern era.

Yes, I do not know though what the Bush remembrance "sign" was after we attacked 2 countries, compared to this and seen by those and countries outside the USA--after killing as many as 30 % of what Hitler did-----but I realize so far not many are writing about this in the USA controlled history books. (like the killing of the black people here)--But go to Afghanistan and Iraq and wait and see how they are going to write about all the Bush and Soviet (Afghanistan) killings!

bundgaard - 9/11 never happened. It's nice to try and tie in Hitler and the things he did to President Bush. I guess it's not very obvious that you are a far left wack job. Mabye if you would pay attention to what had happened on 9/11 and then after you'd know who/what/where/why but since you didn't and chose to listen to other far left wack jobs you're lost making comments that aren't true. Thank God you have no hand in what is written in the history books! I can only imagine how skewed our history would be.

Bundgaard, nobody in Afghanistan can read or write. The taliban burn all books except to koran.

@Alan Pugh : Are you really as dense as you look? "Two different cultures not understanding each other"? You did read that there were calls from five different countries, right? And it couldn't be a publicity stunt, right? You probably believe in UFO's as well....

maybe he went to public school.

My husband, who was educated in India, said that he never saw any mention of the Holocaust in textbooks there. He just learned that Hitler was a strict and ruthless ruler. He learned about the Holocaust after coming to the USA. I think people should talk to the textbook publishers.

Ben64D... if you want to open a business called "Gandhi Sucks," by all means, go right ahead. It's up to the locals whether they shop there. A phone call from India shouldn't play a role in your decision in the US.

Al Alessi, did you have a question related to the article, or just baseless personal insults about UFOs and my personal intelligence? Most Americans don't understand that there are cultures other than "American." It's nobody's business what he names his shop except for those in his own region. If you disagree, please explain why American, UK, Israeli, et. al. values and cultural sensitivities should be enforced upon Indian shop owners, and I will gladly participate in that conversation with you. All I ask is a little class and to lay off the childish ad hominems.

The swastika is an ancient Hindu religious symbol.

the ancient Hindu symbol points in the other direction, he knew what he was doing and it worked look at the attention he's getting

So who is this Hitler dude anyway? Is he some hip hop or rap artist I haven't heard of?

That seems to be the general consensus. But I don't agree. Just because something is obvious to most people does not mean that some ignorant guy can't come along and do this. I truly believe he was clueless until the hate started rolling in relentlessly. After all, if he HAD known, he wouldn't have wasted time and money.

By the way, time seems to heal all wounds.

• Caesar's palace, Little Caesars (Go remind yourself of the lineage)
• Khan's Mongolian BBQ (Go remind yourself of the linchpin rule - mass murderer)

But it will probably be at least a Millennium before Hitler becomes fashionable

commonsense, his offspring can be found all over this blog spewing hate and demonizing christians just like Adolph and Joseph did to the Jews.

The hindu (and navaho) one goes the same way. The Buddist one goes to the left.

Sorry - comment posted twice...

It is, indeed, a dirty habit. XD

Funny, especially the part where he says he "only recently" read about Adolf Hitler online. Sure, pal. Instead of playing dumb, why not just admit that you did it to be controversial, and because you wanted the cheap and easy publicity. You're also not going to be apologizing genuinely, because you got exactly what you were hoping for.

Oops! We did it again. We justified this guy's decision to do something to get attention by giving him the attention he craved.

What the town should have done was refuse to shop in that store until he changed the name. I don't believe for a moment he didn't know the controversy choosing that name would create. He wanted the free publicity.

I think I read somewhere that the Indian space program has plans to orbit a cow around the moon sometime in 2015.

Dan, I highly doubt that Indians will orbit a cow. I know you are trying to being "funny", but for many in Indian, cows are very sacred, the highest level of reincarnation.

eat mo' chikin

I know you are trying to being "funny"

I think he succeeded in being funny. Maybe with your panties twisted up so tight, you just missed it.

Some things need government intervention. It's a store name the public should avoid, but if the owner didn't know who Hitler was, (unlikely because of the swastika), then you might expect the younger generations not to know who he is either. The real problem is the failure to properly educate people so there's no doubt about who Hitler is.

Government intervention, like the way the Nazi government intervened? A free society isn't the rosy artificial utopia envisioned by supporters of big government, but that's the price to pay for liberty. Free markets give the people the power to vote with their wallet and voice rather than depending on some overpaid bureaucrat to do the thinking for them.

FlatIron - remind conservatives that who wish to ban a woman's right to choose and gay marriage.

they keep trying to make our FREE nation into THEIR utopia every day.

FYI - the only people complaining, were govts...did you read the story?

I dont think the locals there really know who or what Hitler is or meant...NEWSFLASH, WHITE PEOPLES HISTORY ISNT TALKED ABOUT IN EVERY NON-WHITE PERSONS CLASSROOM.

just like non-white peoples history isnt really taught in white peoples classroom.

shock, dismay - i know.

@Jessica: Hitler is not "white peoples' history" no more than Ghandi is "brown peoples' history".

Jessica - white people's classrooms? Are you serious? Hitler was over all of Europe, Northern Africa and moving towards the middle east, such as Greece - who allied with Japan and was working on Mexico to invade the good ol' USA. Sounds like a bunch of people of color to me. Of course, the Aryan Race was what he was all about -so- before you start sporting a race card, please do some fact checking first. Revisionist history hasn't totally taken over around the world.

Jessica-1170252

FlatIron - remind conservatives that who wish to ban a woman's right to choose and gay marriage.

I think conservatives are a little more concerned about a baby's right to live than the selfish desires of liberals. Also, politicans like Ron Paul fully support keeping the federal government out of gay marriage issues.

FYI - the only people complaining, were govts...did you read the story?

Yes I did.

"We received at least 10 calls every day from the U.S., the U.K., Dubai, Germany and Israel," Shah said according to the Express. "It was getting very annoying, as many of these people called at odd hours."

Might want to brush up on your reading comprehension skills yourself.

The rest of your comment is utter race baiting nonsense which I am not going to dignify with a response.

Does anyone know if the government has to issue an id number to a business in India, like the IRS does in the US? If so, then some bureaucrat was asleep during history class and now doing the same at his or her desk.

Unless, of course, said inverted swastica is used to dot the 'i' in Hitler.

Except the swastika in the picture looks exactly like a Nazi and not a traditional Hindu swastika. Google Hindu swastika and you will see that it is not usually tilted like the Nazi swastika the store owner used. The Hindu swastika also often has dots in the design and the ends are often slightly curved.

Johntr, if you are going to be a condescending jerk, at least do some research.

John, I tried the same argument until I looked into it further, while yes the swastika is infact an Indian symbol, it's rotation and lack of dots on this sign makes it a Nazi symbol.

and what about the George Bush / Dick Cheney line: The weapons of mass destruction line. Costs about 100 billion. Looks nice. Or the Torture line: Eminates honesty. Secret Energy Meetings Line: Dark, secretive clothing that says something about giving your friends all the business.

It was only recently the guy pulled his head out of his a$$

Many, many Indians died fighting on the side of the Allies.

most nazi's dont see anything wrong with it

Even worse, Carl Hubert's Clothing Shack. Dress like a moron today!

Carl - nice avatar ya got going there. Protesting a bit too much? Or did you want to be the first one to blame this on Obama, just like everyone else for everything else?

"People should be educated enough to know that no USA leader (Republican or Democrat) has ever been evil enough to be compared to that man."

-There may be some Native Americans that would disagree with that statement.

Nope! And neither did you. So stop feigning shock!