Burger King Offends Hindus



We read:

"Hindus have asked Burger King Corporation to publicly apologize and immediately withdraw a poster seen in Spain, which shows Hindu goddess Lakshmi promoting a meat sandwich, which they termed repugnant.

Acclaimed Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada (USA) today, said that it was highly disturbing to see goddess Lakshmi, who is highly revered in Hinduism, modeling for a meat sandwich as shown. Lakshmi was meant to be worshipped in temples or home shrines and not for pushing meat sandwiches in the streets for mercantile greed of a global corporation.

Rajan Zed pointed out that Hinduism promoted strict vegetarianism insisting on ahimsa (not harming living creatures) and non-killing, and renouncing animal slaughter and meat eating. It suggested taking of sattvik (vegetables, fruits, etc.) and avoiding rajasik (eggs, etc.) and tamasik (meat, intoxicants, etc.) foods.

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Hindu religions might seem wacky to us but try to explain the Christian triune God to a Hindu and he will think that you are the crazy one.  Odd though Hindu devotions may seem to us,  they are nonetheless often deeply felt.

For an American Hindu organization to complain about an advertisement in Spain smacks of  publicity-seeking, however.  I guess that they have learned American ways and found that getting  "offended" a lot can have payoffs of various sorts