Israel wants Indian menswear shop Hitler renamed

A view of the Hitler clothing store in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India, on August 28, 2012. Members of the Jewish community in the western Indian state have urged the shop owners to change the name of the store, which was opened on August 19, 2012. / SAM PANTHAKY/AFP/Getty Images

(AP) NEW DELHI - Israel has complained to the Indian state of Gujarat about a menswear shop there named "Hitler."

Israel's consul general to the city of Mumbai, Orna Sagiv, says she asked state officials Monday to intervene to help get the store's name changed.

She said she tried to explain to them "how grave and serious the issue is."

The shop opened last month with a huge sign reading "Hitler" and a Nazi swastika inside the dot in the letter "i."

Rajesh Shah, one of the two owners of the Hitler clothing store, displays his business card at his shop in Ahmedabad, August 28, 2012.

/ SAM PANTHAKY/AFP/Getty Images

The owner said he didn't know about Hitler's history when the name was suggested by his partner, whose stern grandfather was nicknamed Hitler.

The Nazi dictator who led the extermination of Jews in World War II Europe is a subject of routine fascination in India.

[alkjdklfj]

what's wrong with the jews. they got the hate of muslims, they got the hate of christians, now they got the hate of hindus. where ever they go they get hated. if they going to get the hatred of buddists in china. if those mongolians get a grab of you you are finished.
pls jews. start loving outside your" religion".!!!!!!!!! thats the only way you going to get settled in isreal. LOVE is the key. love those of your muslim neigbors then you will get loved back. respect them then you will get the respect back. the golden rules!!!!!!!! care for them then you will get care back. help them then you will get help back...........
human values..........i'm from state of kerala in south india. the only place were muslims,hindus , jews, christians and others live peacefully. human values...........

[alkjdklfj]

my uncle has a bank for to lent to this store and keep the name. they renamed the store because these jewish idiots were calling 24 hrs even night time and continuesly for many days and the owners were sick and tired of this idiots not because they were chickens. and if jews and hitler converted to hindusim they will be counted as untouchables. thats were they belong. hindusim itself is a business of a master mind. and aryan name come from sanskrit which is the indian language and hitler was just a little child good enough to copy aryan word and our sympol. hitler is untouchable to hindu religion. white skin doesn't mean or make aryan. golden skin is the aryan along with high intelligence. they are called brahmins. and they are small in population but, large in influence.

[DovBenMen]

Should ZionistCensorship disavow his authorship of hateful remarks here, including those made as USAB4Zionism on July 20, 2012 8:22 AM EDT, then I will owe and tender an apology to Repubs_R_Fiscal_Liberals for suggesting that he has made apologies for a Nazi.

Such an apology, if called for, will not protect Repubs_R_Fiscal_Liberals from criticism for his comments elsewhere on CBSnews that are both factually incorrect and easily verifiable. To the extent those comments might constitute hate speech, we can argue (yet again) the merits at that time.

[alkjdklfj]

and yet they will go to any country on earth that show upward climb, these unpedriotic people come to that country gradually seduce that country's goverments take cowerdly grap like the snake did it in the eden sedused the women., and make that country under their feet for jews self interest and distroy the country. thats what happening from bc to ad. but at the end hilters forced to pop up for their servival. thats why queen elizebeth gave them isreal. but, still these unpatriotics wander around the world.

[bigmanfrommaine]

i could believe the name was a coincidence if the dot on the i didnt have a swastika on it

[steeepe]

Didn't know about Hitler? How could anyone be so ignorant?

[MythostheWhale]

check this out:
http://www.scaruffi.com/politics/dictat.html

how many of them did YOU know? and hitler is not the worst one in the bunch, he is famous only because the jews drilled in our heads.

[xenaphobe]

Who cares what Israel thinks?

[icenvon]

LOL! The funniest thing about this Indian Clown is the fact that if Hitler had won the war, the Neanderthal would have been exterminated so as not to be given the chance to defile the PURE WHITE Aryan population, and that goes the same for all the Ar@bs in this place supporting the Ignoramus

[alkjdklfj]

why jews love guns in america. when fareed zacaria who is a christian suspended from the show for beeing a lefti in their mind. he was just being forward. but, the polish jewish time warner cable suspened him. and humiliated him. jews cannot run the world with their business.
jews should take this as a humiliation.

[alkjdklfj]

hitler was only against jews and their business. he was a socialist. jews were living in germany as a forein people with out any patriotism only for self gain thats why it happend. so, it should be a lesson for all jews. and they all shoul call isreal their home.

[Jim-in-ate-her]

I think we've coddled the jewish people enough. It's just a name and maybe I think I understand why the arabs of the world hate Israel. It's like they do not know how to live without someone hating them.

[muffistough1108]

Have any of you actually read the history of WWII and understand what Hitler stood for. Do you understand the test that
he did on people? That he wanted to rule the world? It was not just the JEWS that he went after!! Anyone that he consider inferior was KILLED!! AND IT IS NOT JUST A NAME. Let's see how you would have felt if he had actually won!! I can't believe how naive and stupid some people can be!! HE WAS A MONSTER!!!!!! A FREAK THAT BELIEVED IT WAS OKAY TO KILL PEOPLE BECAUSE THEY WERE THE WRONG WHATEVER!!!!!!!! Coddle the JEWISH PEOPLE really maybe you would have liked to have been in the concentration camps or hated by all because you were JEWISH!! I would say that I feel for you BUT I am not in the habit of lying! He ordered the Holocaust which killed 11-14 million people, 6 million of those were Jewish the others were not and over 35 million people were killed in WWII. The freaking war was started by HITLER!! I can't believe the hate that some people spew out without knowing the facts! The war started September 1st 1939 when GERMANY invaded POLAND!!

[goffredo29]

There was the guy from Circleville, Ohio, named George Hitler, who said all his life that he kept his name because a name shouldn't define who a person is. He was a great guy. But this isn't a case of that. The ignorance here is feigned and I agree the owner has to have known about the history of the name if he's dotting his i with a swastika.