Can a restaurant be named Hitler’s Cross? It seems it can’t because sensitivities are involved. Not of Jews persecuted by Nazis alone, but of those who are dead against persecution of any form.
Six million people were slain by the Nazi thug and so no symbols associated with him -- the name nor the Swastika --can be a cause of a celebration – In this case a celebration of dining.
The place in question is a restaurant in Navi Mumbai (Or New Bombay) which was named Hitler’s Cross.
The Khargar restaurant owner is not a Nazi fan or an opponent of Jews; he just wanted to attract attention, it seems. So do we have the right to attract attention by using offending symbols as a tool?
As a matter of debate and on an idealistic platform the answer is yes, but as the perspective is based on the progress of society as a whole the answer can only be no.
The distinction between fact and fiction, historical perspective and history, racial profiling and radicalism is so blurred that there can be opponents and proponents in the same measure.
It is a thin blood line that separates all these.
From the Third Reich to the controversial Khargar restaurant, history’s tide is swung by extreme postures, whether it is Right of Left. There is no place for another line of thinking. Isn’t that insensitivity?
The Khargar restaurant’s owner bowed to sentiments to rename it Cross Café. Now isn’t Cross a symbol of sacrifice?
Carry on debating, but the Cross Café has grabbed all the attention in Earth and Mars that it no longer needs publicity of any sort.
Figure this out: Elated by the renaming, the secretary of Beth-El synagogue in Panvel, Naomi Massil, hopes to visit it soon. No one is complaining.
