Sacred sacrifice gone wrong.

১৫ ই সেপ্টেম্বর, ২০১৬ দুপুর ১২:২০

Before talking over this topic I want to clear myself out I'm a Non-Vegan but that does not necessarily mean I am a whole meat lover. I am an inbetween person. It is understandable to oppose all the talk that has been going on but tell me this, how many of the people you know have followed the actual rules of Qurbani?
So what I understand by Qurbani is that it's a religiously endorsed act. It literally translates to 'sacrifice.' Sacrifice is not synonymous to abuse and celebration. When was the last time you heard that a person threw a party to celebrate something that brought them immense grief? Yeah it doesn't work that way. This religiously endorsed act has one meaning but people in my country celebrate the deaths and have the audacity to call it sacrifice.

I may be a modern Muslim but I have done my homework so please don't think that I am trying to demean Islam because I am not.
Is taking selfies and photos of your sacrificial animal Islamic? Is flaunting the price of your sacrificial animal in aspects religious? What about making videos of the slaughter and posting it online?

Yes religion is every person's personal matter but the traits of Eid in our country don't seem so religious. It is more of a who brings home the bigger cow contest.
So, if you are really not doing God a favor then why kill all these animals like this infront of other animals while they know that is their near fate - which according to my research is not allowed. I've found that while your sacrifice, no other animal should be able to see blood or smell it otherwise your sacrifice will not be accepted. So what is the point of this social gesture if it isn't even done right?

I respect every religion and believe that every person is entitled to practice what they are comfortable with. But from what I've witnessed, it turned more of a show offing thing than a ritual. Rate of the cows, who can afford bigger cows with huge chunk of changes, who won the deal, whose cow's fatter etc are all filled with it. You see these are not religiously endorsed acts. People do it anyway, and this is disrespectful to both the religion Islam and to the animals who are supposed to be slaughtered with respect. Don't even pretend I am making these things up, like most devout Muslims like to do. These happen. This is not debatable.

Animals are brought in. People slaughter one animal after another, in the same room, within sight, right before one another. It goes against the religious teaching, but people don't care. Animals are put through psychological abuse prior to having their throats slit. Think about all those people Islamic extremists have beheaded in front of their next victims.

Don't even compare a religiously instigated series of unethical slaughters to the commercial slaughter procedures. Commercial slaughters don't represent ethical foundations of society. Religion does. Islam does so people can accept that KFC and McDonald's do much worse, because they don't do what they do in the name of religion. When people do the same in the name of religion, they turn religion into extremism. ISIS is the living, breathing example of that. So there's no comparison here.

I am strongly against acts of violence, celebration of death and showing off how low we can get with disrespecting the souls we ''claim to sacrifice' in the name of religion. This trend is so wrong.

Our Qurbani is no different than purchasing sliced beef from the market. The only difference is seeing something get slaughtered within the premises of your home. This should not even be called Qurbani. That's not the essence of it. This is not what Abraham did.

So yes, the show offing of Qurbani offends me greatly. And I will eat meat. When I eat my burger from McDonald's, I know that there was no religiously motivated crime behind this, unethical though. When I see Qurbani's meat at someone else's place, I have to think about what that meat represents; a practice that has people violating the living and dead bodies of animals, which is "supposed to be ethical." That is dishonesty.

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