Annapoorani Hurt Brahmin Sentiments, not Hindu Sentiments
Netflix removed the movie Annapoorani due to backlash from "Hindus" who claimed that it hurt "Hindu sentiments" for portraying a "Hindu woman" eating meat and inter-religious romance = "love jihad." I watched Annapoorani and I didn't like the movie per se because of its tenuous and haphazard storyline. Now, although I'm a self-proclaimed atheist, my Hindu family members eat meat - from chicken to monitor lizard meat. Vegetarian offerings to Gods, and deceased family members are recent and due to BRAHMINISM, not HINDUISM. When I was a kid, my family used to offer meat, liquor, and cigars to our "clan gods" and deceased family members and they are Hindus then and now. Brahminism brainwashing that meat is lowly and sacrilegious has poisoned the Malaysian Hindu community as well. In a bid to disassociate themselves from the Brahmin-induced idea that eating meat is reprehensible, the Hindus in Malaysia were made to believe that t...