NYT: NEIGHBORHOOD REPORT – JACKSON HEIGHTS; Of Gods and Soles: Hindu Images on Shoes Lead to Protest

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By TARA BAHRAMPOURAUG. 6, 2000 Original URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2000/08/06/nyregion/neighborhood-report-jackson-heights-gods-soles-hindu-images-shoes-lead-protest.html Forget Miami's Cubans. The New York City Hindu lobby is a force to be reckoned with. Last month, after a discount store in Jackson Heights started selling sandals adorned with colorful images of Hindu gods, Hindu residents began an e-mail blitzkrieg that elicited hundreds of outraged responses from around the world. In letters addresse ...

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High court’s decision won’t end debate over student-led prayers

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AHAD on Supreme Court Ruling about School Sports Prayers: Originally Published in: Dallas Morning News By: Jeff Weiss Published On: 06/19/2000 High court's decision won't end debate over student-led prayers DALLAS, Texas _ The girl who took the microphone at a small-town Texas football field for a pre-game prayer set off a broad national debate. On Monday, the Supreme Court ruling that declared her prayer unconstitutional was very specific. The court rejected the invocation delivered in Santa Fe _ s ...

US Baptists pray for ‘Satan’s Hindu slaves’

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AHAD Condemns Southern Baptist Diwali Booklet Publication: The Guardian Author: James Meek, Religious Affairs Editor Publication Date: Nov. 2, 1999 US Baptists pray for 'Satan's Hindu slaves' Just weeks after outraging US Jewish leaders with a booklet aimed at converting Jews to Christianity, the country's biggest Protestant denomination has done it again with a campaign to convert "900 million people lost in the hopeless darkness of Hinduism". The latest campaign by the Southern Baptist Congregatio ...

UNHINDU HINDUS Apolitical Intolerance Has Now Struck the Community

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Tunku Varadarajan believes that we are UnHindu, because we stand up for Hindu dharma!  Maybe, he missed the Dotbusters era... India Today (North American edition) Sep. 14, 1999 ALTERNATE ACCENT | Tunku Varadarajan   UNHINDU HINDUS - Apolitical Intolerance Has Now Struck the Community I am a Hindu. My childhood was steeped in Hindu scripture and prayer, and we often spent our vacations in Benaras, where my old grandmother lived in Hanuman Ghat. My father took us to the Ganges in the mo ...

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Shloka In Orgy Scene To Go, But Hundreds of Prints of Eyes Wide Shut Will Still Retain It

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  Publication: Rediff URL: http://www.rediff.com/news/1999/sep/01us1.htm Date of Publication: 09/1999 Author: R S Shankar Bowing to pressure by the American Hindus Against Defamation and its allies, Warner Bros agreed on Monday to delete from the soundtrack the Bhagvad Gita used in an orgy scene in Stanley Kubrick's controversial film, Eyes Wide Shut. The movie, starring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, explores the darker side of a marriage, and ends up supporting monogamy. Hailed by ma ...

Harvard Crimson Article about AHAD Movement

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The Material Girl Goes Spiritual By SUJIT RAMAN, September 22, 1998 URL: http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1998/9/22/the-material-girl-goes-spiritual-pthose/ Those of you who missed the MTV Music Awards last week missed one of Madonna's greatest moments. In winning five of the headline prizes, the Material Girl taught us two lessons: first, that some divas never die--they don't even fade away. Second--and more importantly--she attempted to introduce many of us to a new cultural and re ...

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Rallying religious revival

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An Early Article in India Today about HSC Traces the History of HinduNet and AHAD Title: Rallying religious revival Author: Arthur J. Pais (New York) Publication: India Today Date: November 15, 1997 Kanchan Banerjee was prevented from performing Ganesh puja on the campus of Boston University nine years ago. He was stopped not by American rednecks or the KKK but the India Club-on the plea that the celebration of Diwali went against India's secular constitution. It was probably similar complaints ...

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AHADC Efforts Leads to Sony Apology to Hindus : Offending CD Cover to Be Withdrawn Immediately

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The American Hindu Anti-Defamation Coalition (AHADC), is pleased to announce that on April 16, 1997, the senior lawyer for Sony Music & Entertainment, Inc., New York, (Sony), Mr. Joseph Salvo, contacted the attorney for AHADC, Mr. Chetan P. Tanna, and issued an apology on behalf of Sony/Columbia to the entire Hindu community for the offensive cover of the CD "Nine Lives" by a rock group, Aerosmith. The cover of the CD "Nine Lives" portrayed a distorted and offensive picture of Hindu God, Shree Krishn ...

Statement Issued by Aerosmith to the media

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In response to Aerosmith's deep concern and dismay at the notion of having offended any religious group by the image on the cover of their recently released album, Nine Lives, the five band members have requested that their record label, Columbia Records, immediately cease manufacturing the cover artwork. They also asked that the image be replaced in all future manufacturing runs with a new and completely different design. The original album cover image, as presented to Aerosmith, was selected for its ae ...