Cafepress - Indecent Images?

Recently, some people in Orissa have come out with cudgels against a particular website (www.cafepress.com) that is apparently offering women's underwear featuring the image of Lord Jagannath. While on the surface of it, the whole thing might sound very ironic for those of us who are inclined to be cynical (one can think of people saying phrases like, "It takes devotion to remove those, eh!"), the flip-side of it is the media attention that it's getting.

I have scanned a bunch of newspapers and this probably only made the frontpage of one newspaper. Obviously, it didn't feature on any internation news-site, but even in our own national news-sites, I could only find it on one newspaper (Indian Express, I believe!). Compare that with say the time when those Danish cartoons were published - there was such a outpouring of rage then. The Danish PM was told to not visit India (by the strong-man Manmohan, probably on the orders of his mistress).

Anyway, I see nothing wrong in printing images of gods on anything (afterall, women's underwear are nothing un-holy; if you believe that, you're a big blot on humanity!). I would understand if it were something offensive like printing those images on condoms or toilet-paper or something like that; but women's underwear? Big Deal! This exposes our idiotic beliefs - so underwear is unholy? The whole reason behind our demoting sex as something dirty and nasty is due to the combined invasions of Islam and Christianity - they exported their concepts of "sin" and "morality", which have resulted in our becoming an overly prudish race!

I say print Jesus, print our Indian gods, and unfortunately since no image of Allah exists (so print a printless form) on anything. It's time we realized that gods are made in our image, not us in theirs! We should get over this whole-business of getting our sentiments hurt, and instead try to develop a more business mindset. The people opposing cafepress should sue and settle something to the effect of making cafepress donate a huge sum to the maintenance and development of the Jagannath Temple. That is what Krishna would have done, but we are foolish and will never think of any such remedy!