Kali/Talk

"Her poor reputation in the West came from the cult of the Thuggee?, Muslims who took the goddess Kali as their deity."

What???

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I don't know how much it is responsible for the Western image of Kali, but the thugees did exist. The thugee (from which we get the word 'thug') were a secretive Hindu religious group active around Calcutta, who murdered people, until the British destroyed them. But (AFAIK) they definitely weren't Muslims -- they were Hindus. -- SJK

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I've found a few websites saying they were Muslims. But by everything I know, if they took Kali as their deity, they weren't Muslims.