California company removes objectionable skateboards with images of Hindu deities
June 25th, 2010 - 6:42 pm ICT by ANINevada (US), June 25 (ANI): Redwood City (California, USA) based firm Zazzle has reportedly withdrawn from its website skateboards and pet/dog clothing carrying the images of Hindu deities which upset Hindus had called inappropriate and asked for their immediate withdrawal.
Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada (USA) today, has thanked Zazzle for immediate action and for listening to the sentiments of about one billion strong worldwide Hindu community.
Zed, who is president of Universal Society of Hinduism, in a statement on this issue on June 21, had said that Hindu deities were meant to be worshipped in temples or home shrines and not to be pushed around or rode on with one’s feet on the top or doing kick flips in the street as in some of Zazzle skateboards.
Rajan Zed had argued that these deities were highly revered in Hinduism and inappropriate usage of Hindu deities or concepts for commercial or other agenda was not okay as it hurt the devotees. (ANI)
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