“Even when I started the paperwork seven months ago to register my restaurant’s name, I did not receive any negative reactions from the government or security forces. It was quite normal.”
Sure, although that has now changed: the international publicity that the restaurant has received has led Kurdish authorities to close it until the owner changes its name. However, its popularity was telling. Naming a restaurant after figure who is beloved among the eatery’s potential customers is a canny move. And thanks to Islam’s deeply rooted antisemitism, Hitler is indeed a popular individual in many Muslim countries. In May, the President of the British Pakistani Youth Council praised Adolf Hitler for killing Jews. Last February, an Egyptian researcher declared: “We should erect a statue of Hitler for what he did to the Jews.” In Paris in July 2018, a Muslim screaming “Allahu akbar, long live Hitler, death to Jews” assaulted a Jewish man. In 2017, a UK: Muslim migrant paraded a “Hitler You Were Right” sign in Britain. In 2016, an Egyptian Muslim “human rights activist” said that Hitler was a “great man” who “exposed truth about Jews.”
And so on and on. It is no wonder that the Hitler Restaurant was popular. It’s too bad that Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar couldn’t drop by before it was closed.
“Owner of ‘Hitler Restaurant’ in Duhok wanted his restaurant to be ‘famous,’” by Zhelwan Z. Wali, Rudaw, September 3, 2019:
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region — A restaurant named after the genocidal German dictator Adolf Hitler in Duhok has triggered much controversy on social media, with some welcoming the move and others criticizing the government for permitting the issuance of licences under such notorious names.
The owner of the restaurant said he does not necessarily like the mastermind behind the Holocaust, despite naming his restaurant after him, and simply wanted publicity.
“Hitler was the dictator of Germany and has nothing to do with me. I know I have named my restaurant ‘Hitler’, but that does not mean that I love him,” Rebar Mohammed told Rudaw English. “I have done it just to make my restaurant famous among people.”
Hitler led the National Socialist German Workers Party, commonly known as the Nazi party, and Germany in the 1930s and 1940s. His invasion of Poland in 1939 brought about World War II. During the course of the war, which ended in 1945, Hitler was responsible for the mass murder of six million Jews in concentration camps, as well as five million gypsies, political dissidents, Poles, homosexuals and others. Overall, more than 70 million died in the war.
Mohammed said officials did not pay the name much attention when he was registering the restaurant.
“Even when I started the paperwork seven months ago to register my restaurant’s name, I did not receive any negative reactions from the government or security forces,” he said. “It was quite normal.”
Customers have a similarly nonchalant attitude to the Hitler signpost hanging on the wall, according to Mohammed.
“Whoever visits my restaurant says they do not care what the name of my restaurant is,” he said. “What is important for them is the cleanliness and taste of my food.”
Some customers agree. Hitler Restaurant was bustling with customers on Monday, many of whom seemed to not care about Hitler’s involvement in crimes against humanity and genocide.
“For me, the name of the restaurant is not an important thing,” Tahir Mohammed, a customer at the Hitler restaurant, told Rudaw while waiting for his meal. “I come here because I prefer the dishes they serve.”…
mortimer says
Sadly, there could only be a ‘Hitler’ restaurant in a Muslim country, but this was too embarrassing for the Kurdish government and pressure may have been put on them from outside for all we know. You would not see such a thing in any other culture today.
If Islam were actually a religion of peace, no self-respecting Muslim would enter the door of an establishment named after Hitler. If Muslims actually condemned Hitler’s methods and crimes, they would not enter the door of an establishment named after Hitler. Silence means approval.
Clearly, Muslims see little to criticize in Hitler’s methods which, historically, have been used by Islam’s most famous caliphs, emirs and generals in the past, namely: mass, genocidal killing, torture, systemic religious persecution, personality cult, slave labor, misogyny, racism, ethnic cleansing, depopulation, re-colonization, aggressive wars, etc.
Down Under Observer says
Tacit customers.
Hugh Fitzgerald says
Would the Kurds be similarly “nonchalant” about a restaurant in Baghdad — much favored by Arabs –named “Ali Kimyawi” (“Chemical Ali”), after Ail Hassan al-Majid, the general responsible for the chemical attack on Kurds in Halabja? Would that bring the moral point home, to both the morally-obtuse owner of the “Hitler” restaurant and his equally obtuse clientele?
mortimer says
Response to Hugh FItzgerald: I am sure Mr. Fitzgerald knows that a clear moral parallel will work on a minority of Muslims, but most will ignore any ‘lesson’ coming from a mere kafir. In my humble experience of discussion with Muslims, they generally use ‘selective perception’ or double standards in the matter of war crimes … for instance, ‘They aren’t ‘crimes against humanity’ when WE do it.’
K.8:67 “It is not fitting for any prophet to have prisoners until he has made a great SLAUGHTER in the land.”
K.47:4: “Strike off the heads of the disbelievers” and, after making a “wide slaughter among them, carefully tie up the remaining captives.”
K.33:60 “Truly, if the ‘hypocrites’ stir up sedition (resist Islam), if the agitators in the City do not desist, We shall urge you to GO AGAINST THEM and set you over them. Then they WILL NOT BE ABLE TO STAY as your neighbors for any length of time. They shall have a curse on them. Whenever they are found, they shall be seized and SLAIN WITHOUT MERCY – a fierce SLAUGHTER – murdered, a horrible murdering.”
Muslims are generally discouraged by their mullahs from studying philosophy, because it leads to loss of Islamic faith. Al Ghazzali absolutely proscribed the study of philosophy by Muslims and recommended they limit themselves to the study of mathematics which would not lead to a discussion of Islamic amorality or Islamic logical fallacies or its double standards.
Westman says
And, of course, the world is daily astounded at the famous Muslim mathematicians who push forward the envelope of the field – in between their daily prayers and attending to the needs of wives and children.
In actuality, Islam and rational thought are incompatible.
mgoldberg says
How about one named the ‘Charles Martel Restaurant’. I bet that one would be a big hit.
janwog says
One has supported the Kurds for fighting against IS. But the same hate of Jews is everywhere, just an aspect of the religion of peace.
gravenimage says
Yep.
GreekEmpress says
Reminds me that Nazis learned from the Ottoman Turks how to conduct genocide. Also, during the Armenian/Greek/Chaldean slaughter, the Kurds were right in there with the Turks committing massacres and looting during the death marches.
gravenimage says
Grimly true on both counts, GreekEmpress.
FYI says
“Ehm…i’d like a Joe Stalin Burger, a side-order of French infidel Fries,some halal-certified wahhabi sauce …and do you have that kiddies drink?…”Playtime with Uncle Mo” kola?”
Trick_or_Treat says
“…And I saw one of the heads of the beast having as it were a mortal wound; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.” – Revelation 13:3.
OREN WYSOCKI says
I wonder who would report it if the PLO tried it? Or say the jordanians? In G-d I trust.
gravenimage says
“Hitler” shops have shown up in the Muslim world before:
“‘Hitler’ clothing store causes stir in Cairo”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/04/hitler-clothing-store-causes-stir-in-cairo
“Hitler honored in upscale mall in modern, moderate Turkey”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2013/01/hitler-honored-in-upscale-mall-in-modern-moderate-turkey
And here’s a “Hitler” shop in Gaza:
“‘Name of Shop in Hitler and I Like Him Because He Was the Most Anti Jewish Person'”
https://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Name-of-shop-is-Hitler-and-I-like-him-because-he-was-the-most-anti-Jewish-person-432190#article=0QzI0MTU2NjQxRUZEMDUyNDlGNUQ5MzQ4RkQyQTU5QUY=
I’m sure there are many others.
At least the Kurdish authorities were decent enough to be embarrassed by this.
jayell says
There are at least two ‘Hitler’ restaurants in India. Hardly surprising when you look at the evidence of their duplicity in WW2.
Gork says
I have an idea: Let’s send some Antifa Activists to the Hitler Restaurant. We can solve two problems at once –and for once I might even root for the Antifa side.
Norger says
“It is no wonder that the Hitler Restaurant was popular. It’s too bad that Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar couldn’t drop by before it was closed.”
Pow! Zap! Pop! Excellent zinger, Mr. Spencer!
Angemon says
“I have done it just to make my restaurant famous among people.”</blockquote
Why not name it after a famous Kurdish/islamic figure then? And why would he think "Hitler" would make his restaurant famous?…
libertyORdeath says
It worked
For Peace says
Only in a negative fashion. But then again why not open a competing business named after the most offensive person that they loath?
Giacomo Latta says
If it’s a vegetarian restaurant then it all makes sense. PETA would approve.
gravenimage says
*Sigh*. No, most vegetarians are not Hitler.
UNCLE VLADDI says
Aw, and here allah youse thought those Kurd guys were the “nice, safe” muslims LOL!
Jihad Watchers tend to forget that their greatest historical jihadi, Saladin, was a Kurd.