Yeah, just a little offensive fer sure.
BOMBAY, India - When a restaurant called “Hitler’s Cross” opened four days ago in a Bombay suburb, the city’s small Jewish community was outraged, but there were few other objections.
Owner Puneet Sablok insisted then and still does that the name and theme of his new eatery is only meant to attract attention, with its posters of Adolf Hitler and swastikas.
“There is no intention to hurt anyone,” Sablok said of his spacious restaurant, which serves pastries, pizza and salad in Navi Mumbai, a northern suburb of Bombay, which is also known as Mumbai.
Holocaust awareness in India is limited. Hitler is regarded by many as just another historical figure. The swastika, reviled in many parts of the world, is also an ancient Hindu symbol and displayed all over to bring luck.
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Ivan Prokopchuk 08.24.06 at 9:04 pm
Also sprach Zarathustra!
(It is believed that F. W. Nietzsche
modelled his Superman after Zoroaster,
the Mithraic sun-god).
Zoroastrism also has the running feet of the swastika).
What the hell do I know?
I just read the asshole.
Salaam el kum!
(I think I’m hanging with too many Iranian expatriates these days. They hate Iran too.
Ivan Prokopchuk 08.24.06 at 9:25 pm
p.s.
Never mind Bombay.
Back in the Fifties, I met this guy out of Calcutta who used to go to this really swell restaurant called The Black Hole.