Posted on 04/02/2006 8:13:33 PM PDT by INDIAN_REPUBLICAN
A caricature of a four-armed President Bush in the well-known tandava pose of Lord Shiva has roiled many Hindus and triggered an online signature campaign to protest its publication in a daily newspaper.
"It's a deeply insulting cartoon," Rajesh Gooty, the U.S.-based founder of Indiacause.com, a Web-based portal whose stated purpose it is to safeguard the interests of India, told India-West by telephone. "It is totally offensive to draw a parallel between Bush and Shiva."
The cartoon, which ran in the March 3 edition of The International Herald Tribune, a daily owned by the New York Times, depicts the U.S. president in a suit, holding in one hand a sign that says, "India Nuke Deal," and in another hand a sign that says, "Stop Iran Nukes." Bush is holding a club in his third hand, and what appears to be a hangman's noose in his fourth hand.
"Would the New York Times dare publish cartoons mocking Jesus or Prophet Mohammed," Gooty asked rhetorically. "The paper could have used a clown to get its message across, instead of Lord Shiva."
Gooty wondered how a paper such as the IHT would dare carry such an "offensive caricature" after witnessing the violent demonstrations by Muslims triggered by the recent publication of a cartoon of Prophet Mohammed in a number of newspapers.
Gooty said that since he initiated the protest campaign March 22, close to 1,200 people have signed the petition, which he plans to send the NYT demanding that the cartoon be retracted and an unconditional apology be given.
Through online campaigns, Indiacause.com claims that over the years it has succeeded in forcing Microsoft to remove the word "disputed" from a map showing the state of Jammu and Kashmir, forced CNN and Fox News to remove an India map drawn without the state of Jammu and Kashmir, and forced the Toronto Star to apologize for publishing an image of a nude Goddess Durga.
Paid for and supported by Communist China and the rest of the libtard Clymers.
Stupid Hindus ~ Shiva is the shared intellectual property of all humanity.
The Left has racist and religious bigotry? NO! Say it isn't so! < /sarc >
Yes
or Prophet Mohammed,"
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL. We do know the answer to that now, don't we?
journalistic standards are pathetic...
It's not a hangman's noose, it's a carrot.
Mo Ham Head... NO (as they be too skert)
Jesus Christ... In a heartbeat
Something tells me we wont see tens of thousands of Hindu's rampaging across the globe burning embassies. I suppose I could be proved wrong but ...
Yes to the first, no to the second...
Why would the New York Times publish this?
Cause they're not terrified of Hindus....
Shiva was a killer bunch of herb in the 70's.
I agree.
The muzlims have made it clear to all who care to see: "aggression pays".
It pays to be violent and insane and stoopid and rabiid and raving and issuing death threats.
So if the hindus want respect, they can't say they didn't know what to do...
/sarc off
"uh, i count five... "
Good catch !
More proof that the left thinks Dubya is a God.
He also causes hurricanes and earthquakes ya know...
Shiva is referred to as 'the good one' or 'the auspicious one'. Shiva - Rudra is considered to be the destroyer of evil and sorrow. Shiva - Shankara is the doer of good. Shiva is 'tri netra' or three eyed, and is 'neela kantha' - blue necked (having consumed poison, i.e., Halahala to save the world from destruction). Shiva - Nataraja is the Divine Cosmic Dancer.
Shiva—The 'blessed one,' the third member of Trimurti (Sanskrit equivalent of 'trinity') of Hinduism. He is Mahadeva, the 'great god' but primarily the Destroyer or Rudra, 'the terrible,' he destroys all that is born of evil and as destruction is but a prelude to fresh creation and the so-called death gateway to new life, he is worshipped as a creative expression of the Supreme Being, the one great god, (Mahadeva).
Too bad he didn't have a hand full of peanuts.
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