Looks like Project Runway can expect a sharp drop among its Hindu viewership. Yahoo! reports:
Heidi Klum, who dressed up as Hindu goddess Kali, who symbolizes death and destruction, for her Halloween bash, has left the Hindu community in America fuming.
The German supermodel dressed up as Kali for the Halloween party at her place on Oct 31, and was even awarded for the best costume of the night.
And now upset Hindus have asked Klum to make a public apology for posing as a sacred figure.
“Goddess Kali is highly revered in Hinduism and she is meant to be worshipped in temples and not to be used in clubs for publicity stunts or thrown around loosely for dramatic effects,” Contactmusic quoted Indo-American statesman Rajan Zed as saying.
He added: “Hindus welcome Hollywood and other entertainment industries to immerse themselves in Hinduism, but they should take it seriously and respectfully, and not just use the religion for decoration or to advance their selfish agenda.”
Other than Zed, various Hindu leaders, including Jawahar L. Khurana of the Hindu Alliance of India, and Bhavna Shinde of Hindu Janajagruti Samiti, have condemned Klum for posing as Goddess Kali.
They went to the extent of calling Klum’s act as “denigrating.”
Weird, but I would think that, when one of the world’s hottest women chooses to emulate one of your deities, it would be a positive thing. Especially if it’s a goddess who symbolizes death and destruction. If anything, maybe having a goddess who symbolizes death and destruction in the first place is the problem. Isn’t that a little…negative, like having a goddess who symbolizes venereal warts and paper cuts? No wonder these guys are so cranky.
ding | November 4, 2008 at 6:31 pm
um… ur late.
ding | November 4, 2008 at 6:34 pm
i thought she was australian?
ding | November 4, 2008 at 6:35 pm
its so empty in here.. everybodys at the polls probably and im at superficial. lol
p0nk | November 4, 2008 at 6:36 pm
hit that like 8 fists of an angry god.
Jocelyn | November 4, 2008 at 6:37 pm
I don’t see what the big deal is – She did a great job of portraying the deity so get over yourself!!
ngek | November 4, 2008 at 6:37 pm
dude that is just so weird.
ngek | November 4, 2008 at 6:37 pm
dude that is just so weird.
War Horse | November 4, 2008 at 6:40 pm
It doesn’t matter what you do, someone somewhere will always be upset and demand an apology.
Oral Roberts | November 4, 2008 at 6:42 pm
Let us prey!!!
gnipgnop | November 4, 2008 at 6:42 pm
Durka Durka! Aiieee aiiiiieeee! Yes…No…Maybe
Goody-Pie | November 4, 2008 at 6:42 pm
Really, would anyone expect anything more from someone who married Seal. Next year, I hope she goes in Black Face! Maybe, then she will finally see what an incentive idiot she really is, and did I mention Ugly. If you look at her, I mean really look at her, she’s dog poop!
Amy | November 4, 2008 at 6:42 pm
erm, yeah that surprised me too-i thought they would be happy, not angry, for the publicity. i dunno.
Tin Man | November 4, 2008 at 6:44 pm
I hope the blue paint clogs her pores and kills her.
i loves me some me (and asians) | November 4, 2008 at 6:45 pm
Diversity is for suckers. This kind of shit will always happen in a diverse society. Thanks for coming to the country to take all of our IT jobs, then bitching when someone dresses up as one of your retarded gods.
godless | November 4, 2008 at 6:48 pm
Gods, schmods. Who needs imaginary deities anyway?
Binky | November 4, 2008 at 6:53 pm
My guess, judging from the costume, is Heidi has quite a bit of time on her hands. (Where do you get skulls like that ? Target?)
Cliff Notes : Looks like Heidi will be reincarnated as a surf or an Untouchable Bink.
Binky: Oh. Anyone suddenly craving curry and CHANGE ? Or is it just me ?
Darwin | November 4, 2008 at 6:53 pm
Now they can attribute the next natural disaster to the anger of their god.
Fuck a bunch of gods and the lemmings that believe in them.
Bloody Sunday | November 4, 2008 at 6:54 pm
I wonder if she had to get an Rx from her India doctor to purchase those red contact lenses.
Urbanspaceman | November 4, 2008 at 6:55 pm
All religions are stupid and are what have held humanity back from achieving what we are capable of but Hinduism occupies a special place in that pantheon of idiocy. People who think they are descended from gods? Statues that give milk? Well-fed animals wandering amongst starving people? Suttee? The Caste System? “Sacred” rivers where people dispose of their honey buckets and their dead relatives? A god with a human body and a transplanted elephant head?
Denigrating, you say? No more than the Hindu “religion” itself.
Yomama | November 4, 2008 at 6:55 pm
I’ve always thought she was an annoying cunt. It’s no surprise that she’s now annoying 1 billion Hindus
Karma | November 4, 2008 at 6:56 pm
Meh I’m Hindu and I thought it was pretty cool. Someone will always be pissed about something, but Hinduism is open to all kinds of different interpretations and opinions.
trogdor the burninator | November 4, 2008 at 6:58 pm
“If anything, maybe having a goddess who symbolizes death … is the problem. Isn’t that a little…negative, like having a goddess who symbolizes venereal warts and paper cuts?”
Don’t we have a goddess who symbolizes venereal warts and paper cuts…. Paris Hilton, anyone?
I_EAT_COWS | November 4, 2008 at 6:58 pm
Hindus worship thousands of fake Gods…. like this one. Go fuck a cow Hindus!
Karma | November 4, 2008 at 7:01 pm
Urbanspaceman: I suppose walking on water, turning water to wine, having hundreds of wives, waiting for a saviour for over thousands of years, not eating milk and meat, sacrificing goats and statutes that cry blood, are super normal right? All religions have their “odd” bits and its your choice whether to put your faith into them or not.
Karma | November 4, 2008 at 7:03 pm
Omg, I can’t spell…long day…whatever you get my meaning.
beast | November 4, 2008 at 7:06 pm
I can’t believe this post has sparked off so much racial hatred. “Go fuck a cow Hindus…” ?? What the fuck.
Deacon | November 4, 2008 at 7:08 pm
It just kills me that these Liberals who say they will leave the country if Obama doesn’t win, and who are supposedly the “caring, pro diversity” people can be so thoughtless about someone elses religion. Phuqtards.
Sauron | November 4, 2008 at 7:08 pm
She looks more like a smurf on meth to me.
CSI | November 4, 2008 at 7:10 pm
@23: who are you to say their gods are fake? What if your god is fake??
Dubya | November 4, 2008 at 7:12 pm
I love Rx cough syrup with vicodin.
agnostic_hindu | November 4, 2008 at 7:20 pm
part of being Hindu (perhaps the best part) means that you let others be.
we don’t try to convert people and we most certainly don’t get upset when someone who gets paid by the side-boob, decides to dress up in the costume of a 12 armed mythical goddess.
getting upset and/or converting people is what muslims, jews, and christians do. not what we do. so this “outrage” is totally un-Hindu. we don’t blow up buildings based on cartoons, we don’t call people anti-semetic if they happen to disagree, and we definitely don’t go into other countries telling the “darkies” that jesus is the answer.
these Hindu “leaders” need to shut the fuck up.
Sport | November 4, 2008 at 7:22 pm
Great costume. Fuck off anyone who is offended, holy crap.
I’m gonna go as Zeus next year and piss off the ancient Greeks.
AnnaDraconida | November 4, 2008 at 7:26 pm
That costume is fucking awesome.
hindusforjesus | November 4, 2008 at 7:26 pm
With all those arms, I thought she was the Hindu god of customer support phone centers.
Zukyia | November 4, 2008 at 7:27 pm
If someone dressed up as Jesus Christ of Nazareth we would see it, and I guarantee you that almost no one would demand an apology. Christianity is constantly poked fun of in the media, but every other religion is considered off limits for whatever reason. I think either every religion gets made fun of or put on display for entertainment purposes, or religion is off limits. Given that this is America, and we the freedom to crack on others religious beliefs; I think everything is fair game.
But that is just me.
Sorry for the paragraph and any typos. XD
hindusforjesus | November 4, 2008 at 7:28 pm
With all those arms, I thought she was the Hindu god of customer support phone centers.
Zukyia | November 4, 2008 at 7:32 pm
NO ONE would care if someone dressed up as Jesus……sorry if this is a double post.
person | November 4, 2008 at 7:34 pm
once again, Heidi Klum is the only celebrity who does Halloween right.
your best friends girlfriend | November 4, 2008 at 7:44 pm
28 and 36
hahahahaha!! Well played!!
PS: I’m going as a smurf on meth next year..
I_EAT_COWS | November 4, 2008 at 7:47 pm
I am not stupid enough to believe in ANY GOD. So you go FUCK yourself… that is if it is ok with your God!
nikki | November 4, 2008 at 7:53 pm
Heidi’s costume is awesome.
Why can’t Hindus just sit back and laugh at themselves once in a while?
crackerjack | November 4, 2008 at 8:15 pm
Anyone seen that priest costume that has a little blow up boys face at the crotch?? Funny shit.
Gaurav | November 4, 2008 at 8:26 pm
I’m a Hindu and I don’t care what she dressed up as. My faith doesn’t get “insulted” by this kind of stuff. Its insulted when some guy who goes by the unlikely name of Rajan Zed presumes to speak for me. She’s hot and that costume is truly kick ass for the attention to detail. More power to her.
Urbanspaceman | November 4, 2008 at 8:26 pm
24 Karma: The “miracle” of the statue that gives milk isn’t some legend from 2000 years ago but something that happens every year at the Hindu centre in Mississauga near Toronto. Of course, non-believers aren’t allowed to get close.
Vadju | November 4, 2008 at 8:33 pm
wow… As a Christian, I have to say it. That’s one bad ass goddess. However, if there was a religion where Heidi Klum was the goddess, then I’d probably be a part of that.
Libracadabra | November 4, 2008 at 8:49 pm
The Hindus are rather selective (without apparent logic and so I assume there is none) about who they protest. Homer Simpson did a fairly amusing Ganesh, no reaction. Millions of America sit down to dinner to eat the Sacred Cow, *crickets*. Yet Heidi paints herself blue and that is an intolerable affront? Methinks the odds were just better.
Tink82 | November 4, 2008 at 9:28 pm
I think the costume was well designed. Of course, any time someone dresses up as another religion, someone is going to get upset. Had she dressed up as Jesus (which I’m sure many people have done before), would there be offended people? Probably. People dress up as Egyptian and Greek deities, but is it ok because they aren’t currently in practice? I apologize if any sub-cultures still pray to these religions… People are so sensitive these days….
dork | November 4, 2008 at 9:31 pm
Ohhhh, oh, oh, oh, OH YEAH!!!
Jees, Heidi, that was the best hand job, EVER!!!
No, no, you can’t have my head. AAAAAAAAAAAARGHHHHHHHHH, blub, blub, blub.
Kristen | November 4, 2008 at 9:37 pm
Admittedly, it’s a really cool costume but it’s in poor taste.
But I’d like to remind everyone that a few years ago Heidi dressed up as the infamous serpent and Seal dressed up as Eve. Not nearly as offensive as dressing up as Jesus, but still a little sacrilegious. I don’t remember anyone truly getting upset about it.
Karma | November 4, 2008 at 9:47 pm
Urbanspaceman: By some random coincedence, I am a HINDU FROM MISSISSAUGA…weird eh? But anyway, i’ve never heard of it…must be small thing…I’ve lived there forever, been to a bunch of temples…and anyway, as I said no more crazy than people believe Virgin Mary crying blood (South America…Brazil I think)