{"id":2651,"date":"2002-12-05T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-12-05T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2002\/12\/05\/2002-12-05-trinidad-s-hindus-protest-alcoholic-ad-featuring-krishna\/"},"modified":"2002-12-05T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2002-12-05T12:00:00","slug":"2002-12-05-trinidad-s-hindus-protest-alcoholic-ad-featuring-krishna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2002\/12\/05\/2002-12-05-trinidad-s-hindus-protest-alcoholic-ad-featuring-krishna\/","title":{"rendered":"Trinidad&#8217;s Hindus Protest Alcoholic Ad Featuring Krishna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"mailto:shakti-l-request@hinduworld.com\">GO TO SOURCE<\/A><\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>PORT-OF-SPAIN, TRINIDAD, December 5, 2002: Faced with the threat of a boycott, Angostura Ltd. has pulled a two-page advertisement from the Trinidad Express, after the Sanatan Dharma Maha Sabha complained it was inappropriate. The ad was promoting the company&#8217;s &#8220;Spirit of Christmas, The Divine Child&#8221; exhibit, and included various religious images, from Jesus Christ to Lord Krishna. The references appeared alongside pictures of Angostura&#8217;s rums. Maha Sabha Secretary General Sat Maharaj wrote to Angostura and described the ad as &#8220;a shameless act designed to show the Hindu God Krishna subliminally endorsing alcoholic products.&#8221; Maharaj asked for an apology from Angostura and threatened to organize a national &#8220;boycott of all Angostura products.&#8221; &#8220;Our religion and our concept of God must not be used to sell alcohol,&#8221; Maharaj said. President of the Inter-Religious Organization, Bro. Noble Khan, supported the Maha Sabha&#8217;s position. &#8220;Advertisers of goods and services should not create an element of distaste and disgust in promoting their products,&#8221; Khan said in a telephone interview. Angostura agreed to withdraw the ad, and Chief Operating Officer Godfrey Bain wrote the Maha Sabha saying, &#8220;We sincerely apologize for any discomfort which our advertisements in today&#8217;s Express may have caused yourself and the wider Hindu Community. We regret this most profoundly.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GO TO SOURCE PORT-OF-SPAIN, TRINIDAD, December 5, 2002: Faced with the threat of a boycott, Angostura Ltd. has pulled a,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}