What do you think of this ?

I believe that those tourists had to be more careful and respect the religious tradition and sentiments of the country they were visiting. It was enough to wear long sleeves and cover the tattoos.

People should be more open minded in respecting the beliefs of each religion .

There was no need for that. Some fanatics will go to extremes. It is better that such occasions are avoided.

It is hard to tell. What if someone do the some tatto of their respected thing from other country and went to their country. I guess same thing will happen.

Threatening to skin a person surely must be a crime. This is barbaric thinking. I hope those that persecute will get their just due.

It's a massive over-reaction but the guy was pretty stupid to be out in shorts with a tattoo like that. I don't suppose he had a clue what he'd put on his leg.

Sensitivity works both ways, I guess. I wonder if the guy knew how the tattoo would be perceived.

frightening that the police treat a threat to skin someone as trivial. The restaurant management were negligent in letting a diner be subjected to such hate crime intimidation

I think not all peoples are same type ,Some of them are very bad who want to make noise on backside of religious activity. They are peoples who have only one agenda to make noise between others and they do this only for some profit.

I think all religion have their own rituals and rites according to which they act....so people should be enough open minded to think about it and accept it....even I am too open minded...

The key is to respect each other. The group can calmly approach the guy and explain what the tattoo means for them.

Religion is one sensitive issue.. tattooing Gods and goddesses in wrong places often gets people into trouble. I for one see it as something different India is slowly growing intolerant to so many things.. its destroying its secular structure.

@kiran8,Religion is a very sensitive matter.If I come across any foreigner tourist humiliating my religious beliefs,I would promptly vent my utter displeasure,but not molest them for if I do so,it would show my country,my culture and my religion in a bad light.

There is nothing more unprofessional than one harassing over his beliefs. We have our freedom to express ourselves. We can not also disregard the cultural upbringing of others. They might have been trained by their folks to look down on others just because they're different

I fail to understand both the sides. I cannot understand what was the need of engraving a tattoo of a Goddess on body. If that was so, what was the need to display it at a public place. And those who objected were just interested in watching a foreign couple closely and how come their gaze fixed on tattoo only? The crowd could have politely told the foreigners that it is not in order to get the tattoo of a Goddess engraved on body and they (the Australian couple) should do something about it. This kind of intolerance by local people bring a bad name to the country at the cost of cheap publicity.

This isn't exceptable behavior on many levels. Live and let live is a rule more should learn.

What I don't know, how can I be held guilty about it? The person tattooing needs to be held responsible.

I believe that human beings have given way right to exist. Because of this, I maintain a philosophy that I must respect my fellowman's belief.

One should be openminded in these issues.

I am bit confused but I think both are right in their ways. The boy have tattoo must surely don't know what he has done wrong, But also saying sorry is also not a big deal if unknowingly also we have done anything wrong.