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March 13, 2011 05:21 am PST
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/Yux-e89BMBA/60-million-strong-hi.html
60 million-strong Hindu paramilitary org dumps leather shoes
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, a paramilitary Hindu nationalist group with 60 million members is eliminating its traditional leather belts and shoes and replacing them with synthetics, in a nod to Hindu purity: "Many of our members have strong views on slaughtering of cattle from where raw material for leather belt comes and it was natural that we take cognizance of their feelings."...Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/Yux-e89BMBA/60-million-strong-hi.html
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