Belgium brewery, The Musketeers, has apologized for using Lord Ganesha as icon representing its Jack's Precious IPA beer. Google translation of brewery’s statement in Dutch, responding to criticism by Hindu community, published on their website, said. “The brewery wants to apologize when they unwittingly hurts a community”; and added that the beer label “in no way intended to hurt an”.
Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, who initiated and led the protest against the Lord Ganesha’s image on Jack's Precious IPA beer label, in a statement in Nevada welcomed the brewery’s apology, calling it a step in the positive direction.
Zed, who is President of Universal Society of Hinduism, indicated that in the same spirit, the brewery should immediately withdraw image of Lord Ganesha from the beer label, which was highly inappropriate.
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