{"id":644813,"date":"2023-06-24T15:36:39","date_gmt":"2023-06-24T19:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/?p=644813"},"modified":"2023-06-24T15:36:39","modified_gmt":"2023-06-24T19:36:39","slug":"upset-hindus-urge-wales-gift-shop-to-withdraw-lord-ganesha-socks-apologize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/644813\/","title":{"rendered":"Upset Hindus urge Wales gift-shop to withdraw Lord Ganesha socks &#038; apologize"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\":bz\" class=\"ii gt\">\n<div id=\":by\" class=\"a3s aiL \">\n<div>\n<div id=\"m_2682784037872920682ydpaf4a0800yahoo_quoted_8434886430\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<div id=\"m_2682784037872920682ydpaf4a0800yiv5480426509\">\n<div id=\"m_2682784037872920682ydpaf4a0800yiv5480426509yqtfd68316\">\n<div>\n<div id=\"m_2682784037872920682ydpaf4a0800yiv5480426509ydp89ba1dc7yahoo_quoted_7859652316\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<div id=\"m_2682784037872920682ydpaf4a0800yiv5480426509ydp89ba1dc7yiv0797745668\">\n<div id=\"m_2682784037872920682ydpaf4a0800yiv5480426509ydp89ba1dc7yiv0797745668yqtfd33566\">\n<div>\n<div id=\"m_2682784037872920682ydpaf4a0800yiv5480426509ydp89ba1dc7yiv0797745668ydp9d14c65dyahoo_quoted_7760979377\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-644814 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Hop-Hare-Bamboo-Socks-Ganesha-at-Wisdom-Wares.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" \/>Upset Hindus are urging Haverfordwest (Pembrokeshire, Wales) based online gift-shop \u201cWisdom Wares\u201d to immediately withdraw socks carrying images of Hindu deity Lord Ganesha; calling it highly inappropriate.<\/p>\n<p>Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada (USA) today, said that Lord Ganesha was highly revered in Hinduism and was meant to be worshipped in temples or home shrines and not to adorn one\u2019s legs\/feet\/ankles\/calves or absorb sweat.<\/p>\n<p>Inappropriate usage of sacred Hindu deities or concepts or symbols or icons for commercial or other agenda was not okay as it hurt the devotees.<\/p>\n<p>Zed, who is President of Universal Society of Hinduism, also urged \u201cWisdom Wares\u201d to offer a formal apology, besides withdrawing Lord Ganesha socks.<\/p>\n<p>Online retailers should not be in the business of religious appropriation, sacrilege, and ridiculing entire communities. It was deeply trivializing of the immensely venerated Lord Ganesha to be treated like this; Rajan Zed emphasized.<\/p>\n<p>Hinduism was the oldest and third largest religion of the world with about 1.2 billion adherents and a rich philosophical thought and it should not be taken frivolously. Symbols of any faith, larger or smaller, should not be mishandled, Zed noted.<\/p>\n<p>Rajan Zed further said that Hindus were for free artistic expression and speech as much as anybody else if not more. But faith was something sacred and attempts at trivializing it hurt the followers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWisdom Wares\u201d, whose tagline is &#8220;Gifts from around the world, Handmade with love.&#8221;, \u00a0states that \u201cOur socks refer to mysticism, beliefs, traditions and experiences.\u201d Its \u201cHop Hare Bamboo Socks \u2013 Ganesha\u201d was priced at \u00a37.95.<\/p>\n<p>In Hinduism, Lord Ganesha is worshipped as god of wisdom and remover of obstacles and is invoked before the beginning of any major undertaking.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Upset Hindus are urging Haverfordwest (Pembrokeshire, Wales) based online gift-shop \u201cWisdom Wares\u201d to immediately withdraw socks carrying images of Hindu deity Lord Ganesha; calling it highly inappropriate. Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada (USA) today, said that Lord Ganesha was highly revered in Hinduism and was meant to be worshipped in temples or home shrines and not to adorn one\u2019s legs\/feet\/ankles\/calves or absorb sweat. 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