HINDUS ARE upset over the mimicking by Filipina-German singer and beauty queen Imelda Bautista Schweighart of the goddess Kali on her album cover “Fuccboi” Imelda.
Goddess Kali, who personifies Sakti or divine energy, is widely worshipped in Hinduism. She is considered the goddess of time and change. Some Bengali poets described her as supreme deity.
Hindu
statesman Rajan Zed, who is also President of Universal Society of Hinduism, said
that goddess Kali was highly revered in Hinduism and was meant to be worshipped
in temples or home shrines and not to be used for selling albums with
vulgar names.
He
said inappropriate usage of Hindu deities or concepts or symbols or icons for
commercial or other agenda was not okay as it hurt the devotees. And Hindus
are urging Schweighart to apologize and replace cover of her album.
Celebrities should not be in the
business of religious appropriation, sacrilege, and ridiculing entire
communities, according to Zed, adding “it is deeply disrespectful and
trivializing of divine Hindu deities to be ill-used in scenarios like this.”
“Hinduism
is the oldest and third largest religion in the world with about 1.2 billion
adherents and has a rich philosophical thought and it should not be taken
frivolously. Symbols of any faith, larger or smaller, should not be mishandled,”
he added.
“Such trivialization of Hindu deities
was disturbing to the Hindus world over. 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,” he said.
Just
recently, Schweighart was also criticized for saying that Filipino
fans of K-pop are losing their identity trying to be like Koreans. “I hate
K-pop. Filipinos are losing their identity trying to be like Koreans. Can we
have some pride, please?”
“I’m
not sure if anyone can identify with (K-pop stars) but if anyone could, it’s
imagining what you could look like after heavy plastic surgery. Insecurity is
what they sell. They are not promoting self-love,” she said at the same time
praised “Western culture.”
The
22-year model who was crowned 2016 Miss
Philippines Earth, said: “Western influence is top notch. And we
are under them up to this day. We need them as Filipinos and i salute to them
for being exemplar in everything because ultimately, they are our superiors.”
(Mindanao Examiner)
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