Hinduism on your Threads...

I was browsing the Internet and I found this interesting article. It was about this French Clothing company marketing these women's shoes with the image of Lord Ram on them. Then, the Hindu Human Rights organization spoke out against them to stop the sale and manufacturing of them because of Lord Ram being a sacred image, it would be sacriligious to sell these shoes. Afterwards, after the success of the organization stopping the sale of these shoes, the dilemma was brought up of how to get rid of these shoes in order to not be sacriligious in disposing them also.

Isn't this similar to Christians marketing images of the cross and images of Jesus Christ on various clothing? I don't see Christian activists protesting against the sale of such items. In fact, I see many people wearing them with pride. So why is it so much different from the Hindu god Lord Ram being depicted on shoes? I would say that it can be explained by seeing the differences of the actual religions. Hindus would regard things as sacred and would be sacriligious to put them on certain things. The strictness of Hinduism and the keeping of ceremonies, rituals and beliefs as the same, even throughout the years would accredit this. Christians on the other hand would most likely regard certain things as sacred also, but with more openness and pride due to the "Americanization" or the continuous development and diversness Christianity has gone through over the past couple thousand years.