Sheetal Shah, senior director at the foundation, says the group started the campaign after noticing the words “Hindu” and “Hinduism” were rarely mentioned in yoga magazines.

“We noticed our sacred texts, philosophical ideas, and deities were consistently being referred to as ‘yogic,’ ‘tantric,’ ‘Indian,’ etc.,” Shah told the Daily News.

The clip, titled "Grady Wilson's Tantric N' Tasty," made awkward sexperts out of Jim Carrey and Kenan Thompson, whose characters demonstrated a particularly ridiculous sexual position that evoked the Hindu god Ganesh, who is often portrayed as a deity with the head of an elephant.

It was the most serious incident to hit Islamic places of worship following vandalism and other assaults at 11 churches, a Sikh temple, a mosque and two ...