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From fork-admin@xent.com Wed Sep 4 19:01:08 2002
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Wed, 04 Sep 2002 09:55:18 PDT
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From: sateesh narahari <sati_home@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: Kill Your Gods
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To: Tom <tomwhore@slack.net>, fork@spamassassin.taint.org
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Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 09:55:18 -0700 (PDT)
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Hindus got 3 billion gods..... So, losing one is no
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big deal, really....
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Its just sick that they killed an innocent animal,
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which doesn't even know the concept of "God".
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Sateesh
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--- Tom <tomwhore@slack.net> wrote:
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> Hindus mourn 'monkey god'
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>
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> By Omer Farooq
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> BBC reporter in Hyderabad
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> Hundreds of people have attended the funeral of a
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> monkey which became
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> revered as a divine incarnation of a Hindu god in
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> the southern Indian
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> state of Andhra Pradesh.
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>
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> The monkey was quite old and both its hind legs were
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> paralysed
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>
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> Animal rights campaigners say the monkey died of
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> starvation and exhaustion
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> after being trapped in a temple for a month by
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> over-zealous worshippers.
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>
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> The animal was cremated in Anantapur district, 400
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> kilometres (250 miles)
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> south of the state capital, Hyderabad, on Sunday.
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>
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> It had not eaten for three weeks.
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>
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> Last rites were performed by priests in the village
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> of Timmiganipally in
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> the presence of hundreds of devotees who had come to
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> believe that the
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> monkey was a reincarnation of the Hindu monkey god,
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> Hanuman.
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>
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> Garlanded
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> One animal rights activist said his group's efforts
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> to save the monkey had
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> failed because of the blind faith of the people.
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>
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> The monkey's death came a day after he and others
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> tried to move the animal
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> out of the temple, but were prevented by villagers.
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>
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> The monkey, which was found perched on top of an
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> idol of Hanuman a month
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> ago, attracted hundreds of devotees every day from
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> surrounding villages,
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> as well as from the neighbouring state of Karnataka.
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>
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> Devotees showered the monkey with fruit and flowers
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> and worshipped it
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> around the clock.
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>
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> 'Exploited'
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>
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> Locals said they believed that Lord Hanuman was
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> visiting the village, as
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> the temple had stopped daily rituals after a dispute
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> between two groups of
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> residents.
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>
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> But animal rights campaigners complained that the
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> animal was being
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> mistreated.
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>
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> They filed a petition in the state's High Court
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> saying the monkey had been
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> forcibly confined in the temple.
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>
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> The group also alleged that people's religious
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> feelings were being
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> exploited to make money.
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>
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> The court then ordered the local administration to
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> rescue the monkey - but
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> villagers prevented officials from taking him for
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> treatment in time.
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