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    boo hoo hoo wipe a tear...

    mike meyers' latest film has angered hindu "leaders" so much after seeing a screening of it that they are calling for a boycott.

    first off nothing is above mockery - nothing.
    second - as an atheist i really have very little patience for religious folks that cry over being "offended" by a movie, tv show, music, art, etc.
    third - it is mike meyers for frak's sake, what do you expect him to do. make a documentary??

    Hindus Furious About Love Guru After Screening

    20 June 2008 12:08 PM, PDT

    Latest: Movie executives at Paramount Pictures have honoured their promise to preview Mike Myers' new film The Love Guru for concerned Hindu leaders in Los Angeles.

    Hindus, led by Rajan Zed, campaigned to see the film before its release on Friday - in a bid to make sure their fears about the movie were overblown.

    But the screening has only served to bolster the religious opposition to the film, which Zed and his followers insist is disrespectful to Hindus and their beliefs.

    Zed has now urged Hindus around the world to boycott the movie, claiming the picture "lampoons Hinduism and Hindu concepts and uses Hindu terms frivolously".

    After attending the screening on Thursday, Zed rages, "The Love Guru is even more denigrating than we earlier perceived from the information gathered from trailers, websites and other sources.

    "Mike Myers' guru instigates a bar fight, repeatedly narrates penis jokes, mocks yoga - one of the six orthodox schools of Hindu philosophy, wears female jewellery, mocks the concept of third eye, makes disciples drink tea passed through his nose, orders alligator soup, induces elephant copulation in front of the crowd, introduces himself as 'His Holiness', lives in a lavish ashram staffed with scantily clad maids, and whose goal in life seems to appear on the Oprah Winfrey show."

    And the Hindu leader has suggested other religious groups should give the film, in which Myers plays an oddball guru called Pitka, a miss.

    He adds, "Today it is Hinduism, tomorrow Hollywood might attempt to denigrate another religions.

    "Hinduism is often misunderstood and wrongly portrayed outside India. Movies like this bring more confusion and create stereotypes in the minds of audience."
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    So, a bunch of religious leaders had nothing more worthwhile to do than sit and watch this stupidassed movie? If that's the case, I'd say they need to get better lives.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SRP76 View Post
    So, a bunch of religious leaders had nothing more worthwhile to do than sit and watch this stupidassed movie? If that's the case, I'd say they need to get better lives.
    couldnt have said it better.


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    Quote Originally Posted by SRP76 View Post
    So, a bunch of religious leaders had nothing more worthwhile to do than sit and watch this stupidassed movie? If that's the case, I'd say they need to get better lives.
    better lives and thicker skins for sure. getting bent out of shape over something in a mike meyers movie is, well, pretty ridiculous.
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    Quote Originally Posted by scipio70 View Post
    better lives and thicker skins for sure. getting bent out of shape over something in a mike meyers movie is, well, pretty ridiculous.



    agreed

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    So I'm guessing that you woun't see this movie in many gas-station movie racks then.




    Wow. . . that was racist. . . but I can't take it back. . it was funny.
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