India's new "Hitler" restaurant shocks Jews!!

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Mumbai: A new restaurant in Mumbai, named after Adolf Hitler and promoted with posters showing the German leader and Nazi swastikas, has infuriated India’s small Jewish community.

'Hitler's Cross', which opened last week, serves up a wide range of continental fare and a big helping of controversy, thanks to a name the owners say they chose to stand out among hundreds of Mumbai eateries.

"We wanted to be different. This is one name that will stay in people's minds," owner Punit Shablok said.

"We are not promoting Hitler. But we want to tell people we are different in the way he was different."

But India's remaining Jews -- most migrated to Israel and the West over the years -- say they are outraged by the gimmick.

"This signifies a severe lack of awareness of the agony of millions of Jews caused by one man," said Jonathan Solomon, chairman of the Indian Jewish Federation, the community's umbrella organisation.

"We are going to stop this deification of Hitler," he said without elaborating. The small restaurant, its interior done out in the Nazi colours of red, white and black, also has a lounge for smoking the exotic "hookah".

Posters line the road leading up to it, featuring a red swastika carved in the name of the eatery.

One slogan reads: "From Small Bites to Mega Joys". A huge portrait of a stern-looking Fuehrer greets visitors at the door.

The cross in the restaurant's name refers to the swastika that symbolised the Nazi regime.

"This place is not about wars or crimes, but where people come to relax and enjoy a meal," said restaurant manager Fatima Kabani, adding that they were planning to turn the eatery's name into a brand with more branches in Mumbai.

The swastika has its roots in ancient Hindu tradition and remains a sacred symbol.

Nazi theorists appropriated it to bolster their central hypothesis of the Aryan origins of the German people.

www.ibnlive.in.com/news/mumbais-hitler-restaurant-shocks-jews/19220-3.html
 
Hey, I just thought it was funny!!

A real clash of cultures.

The swastika to the Jews is a symbol of evil.

And to the Hindus an ancient symbol of goodness.
 
Mumbai: A new restaurant in Mumbai, named after Adolf Hitler and promoted with posters showing the German leader and Nazi swastikas, has infuriated India’s small Jewish community.

'Hitler's Cross', which opened last week, serves up a wide range of continental fare and a big helping of controversy, thanks to a name the owners say they chose to stand out among hundreds of Mumbai eateries.

"We wanted to be different. This is one name that will stay in people's minds," owner Punit Shablok said.

"We are not promoting Hitler. But we want to tell people we are different in the way he was different."

But India's remaining Jews -- most migrated to Israel and the West over the years -- say they are outraged by the gimmick.

"This signifies a severe lack of awareness of the agony of millions of Jews caused by one man," said Jonathan Solomon, chairman of the Indian Jewish Federation, the community's umbrella organisation.

"We are going to stop this deification of Hitler," he said without elaborating. The small restaurant, its interior done out in the Nazi colours of red, white and black, also has a lounge for smoking the exotic "hookah".

Posters line the road leading up to it, featuring a red swastika carved in the name of the eatery.

One slogan reads: "From Small Bites to Mega Joys". A huge portrait of a stern-looking Fuehrer greets visitors at the door.

The cross in the restaurant's name refers to the swastika that symbolised the Nazi regime.

"This place is not about wars or crimes, but where people come to relax and enjoy a meal," said restaurant manager Fatima Kabani, adding that they were planning to turn the eatery's name into a brand with more branches in Mumbai.

The swastika has its roots in ancient Hindu tradition and remains a sacred symbol.

Nazi theorists appropriated it to bolster their central hypothesis of the Aryan origins of the German people.

www.ibnlive.in.com/news/mumbais-hitler-restaurant-shocks-jews/19220-3.html

It`s probably owned by a Jew
 
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The swastika has its roots in ancient Hindu tradition and remains a sacred symbol.

Nazi theorists appropriated it to bolster their central hypothesis of the Aryan origins of the German people.

Imagine if a murderous dictator had appropriated the cross a thousand years ago to "bolster the central hypothesis" of their regime, and as a result, Christians could not display the cross for fear they would upset someone. (The cross already upsets many atheists and agnostics.)
 
The six pointed star of David is sacred to Jews. It is also a Buddhist symbol in the Vajrayana.
 
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The six pointed star of David is sacred to Jews. It is also a Buddhist symbol in the Vajrayana.
While the star is found in cosmological pictures of Indic origin, whatever meaning it may have held has been lost.

Another symbol usually of Indic antiquity would be the swastika.
 
While the star is found in cosmological pictures of Indic origin, whatever meaning it may have held has been lost.

Another symbol usually of Indic antiquity would be the swastika.

The meaning of the six pointed star has not been lost in Judaism or Buddhism.
 
The meaning of the six pointed star has not been lost in Judaism or Buddhism.
Some may attempt to assign current meaning to the star in Buddhism, but the reality is any meaning assigned today is not the original meaning of the pictures in any of the Indic religions, let alone Buddhism.

Some believe that it is much like the yin and yang of other Eastern religious orders, and other current "meanings" have been assigned, mostly by detractors.
 
Some may attempt to assign current meaning to the star in Buddhism, but the reality is any meaning assigned today is not the original meaning of the pictures in any of the Indic religions, let alone Buddhism.

Some believe that it is much like the yin and yang of other Eastern religious orders, and other current "meanings" have been assigned, mostly by detractors.

I am a Buddhist practitioner. There is meaning for Vajrayana Buddhists NOW in the symbol of the star formed by two interlocking triangles.
 
I am a Buddhist practitioner. There is meaning for Vajrayana Buddhists NOW in the symbol of the star formed by two interlocking triangles.
I am a Theravada Buddhist, and understand the reason so many seek to believe that they have found some meaning or have some priority because they insist they know the meaning, but symbols are simply that. And while there may be current assigned meanings, the trail of meaning from all Indic religions (yes they all use it much the same way) simply doesn't exist. Your sect of Buddhism may assign a meaning, but it doesn't take from the truth I have stated. The origin of the star in Indic religions and the meaning they assigned to it at that time was long ago lost.

It's like current Druids insisting they take part in the exact same ceremonies of the Druids of old. They take part in ceremonies that they take meaning from, but it is pretense to suggest that they stumbled upon an ancient mystery.
 
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I am a Theravada Buddhist, and understand the reason so many seek to believe that they have found some meaning or have some priority because they insist they know the meaning, but symbols are simply that. And while there may be current assigned meanings, the trail of meaning from all Indic religions (yes they all use it much the same way) simply doesn't exist.

It's like current Druids insisting they take part in the exact same ceremonies of the Druids of old. They take part in ceremonies that they take meaning from, but it is pretense to suggest that they stumbled upon an ancient mystery.


I practice in the Vajrayana. We talk about three kinds of lineage in the Vajrayana. Oral, symbolic and mind to mind.

I can assure you all three of these lineages are alive in the present.

Does Theravadin Buddhism teach that all other forms of Buddhist practice are invalid?
 

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