There is outrage in Kathmandu after the Nepal Supreme Court ruled that the Kumari has rights. The country has long taken a pre-pubescent girl that declared her a “living goddess” – – a nice status but it comes with a denial of school and other basic rights like freedom of movement. The ruling means the the current Kumari, nine-year-old Preeti Shakya, can be freed from a virtual ornate prison in the palace.
The reform comes on the heels of the return to democracy and elimination of the Nepali Hindu monarchy. The Kumari was used to reinforce the legitimacy of the 240-year-old monarchy.
The ruling could signal the beginning of the end of the tradition. Officials are livid at the ruling. ajan Maharajan, the vice president of the committee that looks after the Kumari and her palace. insists” “This is not good news. In any case, she is a goddess so how can court rulings apply?” He insists that the living God receives three hours of schooling a day at the palace and is not a prisoner. As the video shows below, however, the Kumari is not allowed to speak to anyone.
While the Kumari is a living princess, she loses that status when she starts menstruating — then a new Kumari is selected. The tradition obviously repels many feminists and Westerners.
For a video of the Kumari, click here.
For the full story, click here.
cro magnum boy: All moses came away with was a lousy 10 commandments and not one of them telling christians to get vicious with their opposition.
muhammed the phony came down with a whole darn book he says God told him to write filled with all kinds of funny stuff about killing those that don’t believe muhammed.
stranger stuff was never made up by a person, leastways that caused so much damage, hurt, pain, suffering, and death in the world.
Well I said pious hypocrisy but republican hypocrisy works too.
After all, these days the words are interchangable.
CMM,
don’t bother responding to Russ. He ignores Republican scandals and forgets about how many times Newt Gingrich was married and how he had his wife sign divorce papers while she was in the hospital. He forgets about Giuliani announcing his divorce filing on the news before telling his wife.(isn’t his named still being mentioned as a possible VP?) He forgets that McCain committed adultery and lied about it in his book. He forgets that McCain’s wife lied about getting their adopted daughter from Mother Teresa! You are correct, Republican hypocrisy is the “gift tha keeps on giving”.
russ
1, August 25, 2008 at 11:55 pm
Imagine a man so fiendish as to convince a billion people that he alone had a conversation with God and God trusted him alone to write down what God told him…maybe it was Satan fooling this foolish old man into thinking he was having a discussion with God
Yea… imagine.
Like Moses?
russ
1, August 25, 2008 at 11:47 pm
cro magnum boy: Name a scandal that is supported by the facts.
Cro magnum boy? Wow. Good one Russ.
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You think that one up all by yourself or did you have help?
As for scandals that are supported by the facts, I just named several. And have plenty more where that came from.
In fact, you guys literally provide us with a cornucopia of scandals every month.
Difference is, we’re not the ones waving the banner of chastity in the faces of Americans as we sell ourselves. You are.
Like I said pal, that pious hypocrisy.
It’ll get ya everytime.
crow magnum boy: Yes, those fallen Christian leaders are almost as bad as ……….Muhammed, the so called prophet, eh? Imagine a man so fiendish as to convince a billion people that he alone had a conversation with God and God trusted him alone to write down what God told him…maybe it was Satan fooling this foolish old man into thinking he was having a discussion with God…
rafflaw
1, August 25, 2008 at 10:31 pm
And the Republicans are the ones always yelling about Family Values and then we get the Vitter hooker stories and the bathroom stories and the McCain adultery stories. And then they always ask for forgiveness!
Yea, and they always blubber when they do it.
Remember Swaggart? That festering bag of hot air? Remember him, blubbering like a jilted prom queen?
Or Jim Bakker? Remember him blubbering on the 700 club about all the fornicating he was doing? lol … hell he was fornicating all over the place, lmao.
Now Ted Haggard.. Larry Craig. all cry babies when they get popped.
Pious Hypocrisy.
It’s the gift that keeps on giving.
cro magnum boy: Name a scandal that is supported by the facts. Oh ya, Edwards love child. A man makes it to be considered a nominee for the President of the United States while having an affair as his wife is dying of cancer. Now lets go down Barry Obama’s scandals should we, or do you prefer not to have me list them. Then let’s move on to Biden’s scandels including his millionaire sons getting paid hudnreds of thousands of dollars for lobbying companies his old man control appropriations to.
russ
1, August 25, 2008 at 11:32 pm
rafflaw: when are the Obama’s going to stop using their children as props in their venture for political power?
Presidential candidates have always campaigned with their families. Its nothing new.
I think the problem here is jealousy, as republicans have a difficult time producing children as cute and intelligent as the Obama’s have.
russ
1, August 25, 2008 at 11:12 pm
rafflaw: you want scandals?
No.
I think you guys have provided us with enough scandals for one year.
rafflaw: when are the Obama’s going to stop using their children as props in their venture for political power? this is about the 4th time they have put their children in front of America for political gain. lest you don’t know what i am talking about; tonight after Michelle my bell spoke they rushed the two children up on stage for theatrics with their dad who was on camera in another state. they managed to gush the “where are you” and the “we love you daddy” lines as practiced….
shame.
rafflaw: you want scandals? you liberals put a man on the stage tonight, ted kennedy, that sat drunk on a bridge watching a young woman, Mary Joe Kopechnik, drown in his car in 6 feet of water. then he walked to town to his hotel, went to bed, and in the morning the first person he called was his lawyer.
you cheered this man, you cried for this man, and America knows there were NO tears for the kopechnik family decades ago.
CMM,
You are correct. And the Republicans are the ones always yelling about Family Values and then we get the Vitter hooker stories and the bathroom stories and the McCain adultery stories. And then they always ask for forgiveness!
Hell, wasn’t it Vitter that used his campaign funds to defend himself because of his “love” for hookers?
Funny then that Russ would want to bring up hookers.
CMM,
You are right to wonder if the RNC is in town. Besides, there are no hookers left in Denver because they are already on the road to Minnesota. Besides, what do the Republicans have against hookers? Aren’t they just small businesses that are creating jobs for Bush’s vibrant economy?
Russ said…
Big parties tonight in Denver! Carl Levin, Waxler, all the big time liberals going to FREE PARTIES where the food and hookers flow!
Really? The hookers “flow”?
I wasn’t aware the RNC was invited.
PS. Didn’t Obama tell us lobbyists money was not being tolerated?
Odd.
I wasn’t aware Barack Obama was the head of the DNC.
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Someone better tell Dean.
Jill,
That Buddha was one crazy dude.
Maybe Fat Woodtick Olbermann and his trusted sidekick J. Turley could actually do something about these travesty’s instead of just giving them lip service.
It seemes bizarre to see the Democratic party PRAYING (to what God I don’t know, maybe the abortion GOD) at it’s convention. For the last 20 years the Democrats intentionally kicked any mention of GOD out of their convention; then they realized 80% or more of Americans believe and trust in God, so now they are pandering to them. Prettty soon we will see them come up with a tax break for GOD.
PS. Didn’t Obama tell us lobbyists money was not being tolerated? Seems 50 million in corporate donations have fund the DNC convention, all raised by crooked people connected to the DNC.
Big parties tonight in Denver! Carl Levin, Waxler, all the big time liberals going to FREE PARTIES where the food and hookers flow!
“The Kumari is chosen as a three or four-year-old girl from a Buddhist caste, and remains in the position until she starts menstruating, when the process to choose a new goddess begins anew.”
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If she’s a goddess why does it matter if a goddess mensturates? People make up all kinds of rules and attribute them to the “laws of heaven”. If the laws of heaven hurt people they should not be obeyed. Why does it matter what a god or goddess tells people to do? We have brains, we should use them. “Do no harm” is a good place to start.