Hindus seek NY Mayor’s apology |
Members of an Indian American Hindu activist group have reached out to New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and the Department of Education chancellor Carmen Farina for an apology following a New York Daily News report that showed a Queens junior high school principal depicted as a Hindu deity.Rajan Zed, a Hindu activist in Nevada, in speaking of a mural that shows Junior High School 226 principal Rushell White as a multi-armed Hindu goddess, said that Hindu goddesses were highly revered in Hinduism and were meant to be worshiped in temples or home shrines and not to be used indecorously or thrown around loosely in reimagined versions for dramatic effects on public school premises.He added in the June 29 statement that inappropriate usage of Hinduism concepts and symbols for pushing selfish agenda was not okay.
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