Ganges ’sounds like a disease’, American commentator
December 14th, 2009 - 5:20 pm ICT by IANS ( Leave a comment )Washington, Dec 14 (IANS) The Ganges, a river held sacred by the Hindus, “sounds like a disease”, a Fox News commentator has said, drawing protests from the Hindu community.
Fox News Channel’s Glenn Beck criticised the Ganges in his opinion show “The One Thing”, Hindupad.com reported.
He said: “One big river they have there, that sounds like a disease. Come on, it does. I mean if somebody said, I am sorry, you have a really bad case of Ganges.”
Hindu leader Rajan Zed said that the Ganges was sacred to Hindus worldwide and Beck’s remarks were “very hurtful to the devotees”.
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