It would be tragic if it weren't so funny

Now the Hindus are at it...
From India Uncut, one of our linked blogs, this post about a priest who dared to dress an idol of Krishna in jeans, sunglasses, and a 'mobile' (British and Indian slang for a cell phone), apparently at the behest of a parishioner (sevait) who believed (there's that Belief thing again, getting people into trouble) doing so would help his ailing six-year-old son.
Apparently he commited this 'outrage' at the urging of the sevait, a wealthy businessman who had donated heavily to the temple; the premise was that the clothing, "hallowed by contact with the god", would cure his son.
Then someone started taking pictures...
For awhile, the priest insisted the new attire was "perfectly in keeping with Krishna’s image of a playful god with many faces and avatars, always game for a bit of leela (illusion or prank)". Even when criticized, however, the priest said "he was sure that God wouldn’t punish him".
Now the temple's chief priest has been forced into hiding because "the ruling Samajwadi Party took to the streets to protest the insult to Hindu sentiments.

Insult to Hindu sentiments? This from a religion whose practitioners can drink their own urine, cover themselves in excrement, stand on one leg long enough to cripple the other or stare into the sun long enough to blind themselves, and all of them considered holy?
A religion whose deities include a guy with the head of an elephant and a woman with four arms who wears a necklace of skulls?

Another win for the "excitable people"...