On Tuesday the 14th, the heavy rains and the sacrifices mixed in the streets of Dhaka, Bangladesh. The roots of the scarifies of Eid-al-Adha are to be found in the biblical event when God asks Abraham (Ibrahim to Muslims) to sacrifice his son. The story tells that when Abraham was about to sacrifice his son, God gave him a sheep to be sacrificed instead.
The sacrifice, nowadays, is repeated by Muslims with sheep, goats, and cows. The meat they obtain from it is shared with the poor. The celebration is the biggest together the Eid al-Fitr, right after the end of Ramadan. “Despite the intermittent showers, citizens thronged mosques, offered prayers and proceeded with the ritualistic goat sacrifice,” says IndiaToday.
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The Dhaka Tribute, talks of “1,000 spots -496 in the north and 504 in the south – for slaughtering animals” and in non-official places around the city. Animalists around the world protested for the violence, others for the “Dhaka’s poor drainage system.” In fact, the city faces serious problems with flooding. Hereunder an activist sketches out why the killing must be stopped.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5V5LLziUtlI
The event poses a clear philosophical question: do humans possess the right of oppressing other creatures? Is violence punishable just inter-humans? Every day, around the world animal’s mass killings are considered by most of the people in the world as part of their free will. Many, on the other side, argue that the oppression of someone else (a person or an animal) is not to be considered as a choice since a freedom is not such when oppresses the freedom of someone else. If you want to learn something more about this last claim here is something for you: www.WhyVeganism.com
