Not sure why Indians are getting so excited.

though i agree with the first case as any human shud not be insulted. BUt the given the context of America’s iraq invasion i would stand by the journalist who threw shoe at Bush.

and abt cultural biases i was only looking at my cultural surroundings in india. i know nothing abt iraq.. but we conveniently name dogs to show our hatred such as Kaiser, Jimmy, Jawaharlal Nehru, Mahatma gandhi, hitler etc..
a killer is hidden in our humane interventions whter it be naming, throwing, burning …

people who are being tortured by the lang. (even the standardisation of lang) will try to question each and every usage. it cant be limited to wrting research papers.. it s part of the day-to-day lived experience. it s a way of living!

what i can say about the hindi film “kutte” and “khoon” is that such ideological dilemmas arise from a cultural bias upon which one builds one’s own ideas abt the world., whter it be dietary habit or marrying beta/betti…. the valorisation of “khoon peena” and the degradation of “dogs” (remember, many derogatory casteist remarks has connotations based on dog)…no need to mention honor killings… so whether we argue or not, such cultural biases need not be celebrated. though one needs to respect differnce in culture. that’s my view.

This one has his photograph, much more satisfying…

Comments: the best game in the NET. I sugesst to Bush to do this business after 22 January. He will make a lot of fortune by makking this in reality.

You need to lighten up a bit methinks ;) There’s enough gloom and doom without manufacturing it constantly don’t you think? Have you not heard the immortal Hindi film line “kutte! main tera khoon pi jaaoonga!”…now we could argue its not only insulting to dogs but also insulting to perfectly valid dietary choices. Nothing wrong with drinking blood, the English even make a sausage out of it called black pudding….but ah! no sausage can quite equal the nan-daal pleasure of paaji brandishing a shovel at a cringing villian….

so what? i think one should not humiliate a dog like this.
yea, it s a good for nothing computer game. after all the simulacra of WAR (on iraq or terror) will benefit only those weapon sellers.
and our ‘patriotic’ missions of “war on terror” will aid such global business only. The heroes of mumbai turnt into a weapon selling Ad, unfortunately. The world is of course a satire written with blood. How cruel!

Throwing shoes is insulting in India as well. I;ve seen fake funeral processions with a man’s photo with several pairs shoes being carried away. The BSp’s slogan in UP used to be “tilak, tarazu aur talwar/ maaro inko jootay char”. Brahmin, Vaish and Kshatriya castes, let’s beat them up with shoes. This was double-edged coming from a Dalit community ordained by caste to take away dead buffaloes, skin them, use the hide for making shoes… the institutionalised humiliation was now being returned.