Durga shown drinking whisky ; Hindus plan a peaceful protest

[DanS]

Damn, can't hindus spell?

[OzzyKP]

Hindus

SoCo

Not burning down embassies

[Imran Siddiqui]

Originally posted by Bill3000
Regardless if you believe in blasphemy laws or not, you have to admit that peaceful protest is far more superior than burning down buildings like muslims are doing.

Unless you want anyone to pay attention

[Dr Strangelove]

IIRC there were a number of verses of the Rigavedas devoted to the praise of getting drunk. In fact Indira is the Hindu deity of thunder and booze. perhaps it would have been more appropriate to have India's former female prime minister featured in the ad?

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui


Unless you want anyone to pay attention

oh, folks are paying attention to the burning embassies alright.

[Fake Boris]

thread title

[OzzyKP]

Originally posted by Ogie Oglethorpe
True dat. Why protest at all? Get a life and get over it.

I'm with aneeshm. Its a pretty crass ad (or at least I'm taking his word for it since I don't know much about Hinduism or the SoCo ads). Defending the right to do something isn't the same as defending those who excercise that right to offend othere unnecessarily.

Christians were protesting a few months ago about the commericialization and secularization of Christmas here in this country. Putting aside church/state issues for a moment, I agree with them. As I agree with the Hindu protesters and the non-violent Muslim protesters.

Insulting someone's heritage and religion so you can make a buck or prove a point is in bad taste and we shouldn't condone it.

I think Hindus should be offended, and I'd hope Christians would raise a stir if aneeshm's suggested retaliation smearing Jesus went forward.

[aneeshm]

Originally posted by DanS
Damn, can't hindus spell?

I typed out both articles . All mistakes are mine .

[notyoueither]

Nothing is sacred.

[aneeshm]

Originally posted by Dr Strangelove
IIRC there were a number of verses of the Rigavedas devoted to the praise of getting drunk. In fact Indira is the Hindu deity of thunder and booze. perhaps it would have been more appropriate to have India's former female prime minister featured in the ad?

Don't mistake soma for alcohol .

And you are confused between Indra and Indira . Indra is the god of gods and thunder and soma . Indira is something else entirely .

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by lord of the mark
In general being a member of a small minority group leads to a certain restraint in ones reactions.

That, and the values of enlightenment are much less absent among the European Muslims.

[Sikander]

I agree with Ozzy, there's no problem with protesting something peacefully. I may disagree with the position of the protestors strenuously, but it isn't the protest that's the problem. In this instance there's a really good chance that the advertiser simply didn't realize that this would be offensive to some people (see recent thread on America's view of Hinduism).

[Agathon]

Re: Durga shown drinking whisky ; Hindus plan a peaceful protest

Originally posted by aneeshm

I just thought that it would be a nice contrast , compared to how certain other communities behave .

O RLY?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babri_Mosque#December_6.2C_1992:_the_destruction_of_the_Babri_Masjid

[Q Classic]

Incidentally, the Buddha has been spoofed and insulted multiple times, especially in the west by idiot whities, but no Buddhist has ever burned a western embassy over it.

[KrazyHorse]

That's because Buddhists are pansies.