Animal activists condemn Nepal's animal sacrifice ritual

Shocking cruelty observed in Nepal animal sacrifice

of course this is a third world 'cultural event' and therefore no-one;s allowed to say anything about this frank barbarity

Killing of LIFE cannot be justified

This type of act is happening everywhere, not just in Nepal. Killing of �life� cannot be justified. It doesn�t matter whether you kill an animal, bird or a human being. It doesn�t matter whether you kill for religious sacrifice or to make a juicy steak. I am not a religious freak, but simply an admirer of LIFE. Now�think about it.

Difference???

Blunt knives and amimals?

Or

Peoples and blanket bombings, and/or drone attacks of the sleeping or partying?

Blunt knives eh.

I choose blankets

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Blunt knives and amimals?

Or

Peoples and blanket bombings, and/or drone attacks of the sleeping or partying?

Hopefully warm and fuzzy they make people warm and happy.

Humans??????????????????????????????????

THE BELIEF IN GHOSTS, DEMONS, SATAN & THE SOURCE OF EVIL IS NOT NECESSARY; HUMANS ARE QUITE CAPABLE OF EVERY WICKEDNESS....

Shocking cruelty from Muslim father to daughters!!!

Honor Killing in Texas
by Robert Spencer

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=24329

01/08/2008




Amina Said, 18, and her sister Sarah, 17, smile happily in one widely circulating photo, and Amina is wearing what looks like a sweatshirt bearing the name �AMERICAN.� But their fate may have been the herald of a new, disquieting feature of the American landscape: honor killing. Amina and Sarah were shot dead in Irving, Texas, on New Year�s Day. Police are searching for their father, Yaser Abdel Said, on a warrant for capital murder.

The girlsâ�� great aunt, Gail Gartrell, told reporters, â��This was an honor killing.â�� She explained that Yaser Said had long abused the girls, and after discovering that they had boyfriends, had threatened to kill them — whereupon their mother fled with them. â��She ran with them,â�� said Gartrell, â��because she knew he would carry out the threat.â�� But Said found them, and apparently did carry it out.

Honor killing, the practice of murdering a female family member who is believed to have sullied the family honor, enjoys widespread acceptance in some areas of the Islamic world. However, Islam Said, the brother of Amina and Sarah, has denied that the murders had anything to do with Islam at all. �It�s not religion,� he insisted. �It�s something else. Religion has nothing to do with it.�


And to be sure, the Qur�an or Islamic tradition does not sanction honor killing. Muslim spokesmen have hastened, after the recent killing in Canada of another teenage Muslim girl, Aqsa Parvez, by her father to tell the public that honor killing has nothing to do with Islam, but is merely a feature of Islamic culture in some areas. Aqsa Parvez was sixteen years old; her father, Muhammad Parvez, has been charged with strangling her to death because she refused to wear the hijab. Shahina Siddiqui, president of the Islamic Social Services Association, declared: �The strangulation death of Ms. Parvez was the result of domestic violence, a problem that cuts across Canadian society and is blind to colour or creed.� Sheikh Alaa El-Sayyed, imam of the Islamic Society of North America in Mississauga, Ontario, agreed: �The bottom line is, it�s a domestic violence issue.�

But these dismissals are too easy, principally because they fail to take into account important evidence. In some areas, honor killing is assumed to be an Islamic practice. There is evidence that Islamic culture inculcates attitudes that could lead directly to the murders of these two girls in Texas. In 2003, the Jordanian Parliament voted down on Islamic grounds a provision designed to stiffen penalties for honor killings. In a sadly typical consequence of this early last year, a Jordanian man who murdered his sister because he thought she had a lover was given a three-month sentence, which was suspended for time served, allowing him to walk free. The Yemen Times just last week published an article insisting that violence against women is necessary for the stability of the family and the society, and invoking Islam to support this view.

Since Islam is used as the justification for such barbarities, it becomes incumbent upon Muslim spokesmen to confront this directly, and to work for positive change, rather than simply to consign it all to culture, as if that absolves Islam from all responsibility. For this is the culture that apparently gave Yaser Said and Muhammad Parvez the idea that they had to kill their daughters. It is a culture suffused with its religion, thoroughly dominated by it — such that a clear distinction between the two is not so easy to find.

The killings of Amina and Sarah Said raises uncomfortable questions for the Islamic community in the United States, questions about the culture and mindset that people like Yaser Said bring to this country. Now that honor killing has come to Texas, Muslim spokesmen in the U.S. have an all the more urgent responsibility to end their denial and confront these cultural attitudes. If they don�t, and instead continue to glibly insist that religion has nothing to do with what happened to these poor girls, the murders of the Said sisters will only be the beginning of a new American phenomenon.

Nepal's Hindu Shame

How can this brutal massacre be condoned in the name of religion? I see no humanity in the faces of the butchers.

I appreciate that there are different sects of Hinduism but thought that all viewed life as sacred. Clearly this is not the case.

Animals are sentient beings who experience pain and emotion. I wish the butchers could experience the feelings that the motherless buffalo calves felt when they were chased and hacked in that blood soaked field. it is so unnecessary. What is is doing to their minds and souls - no wonder there is so much strife and human rights infringements in this miserable country.

It appears that the illiterate, uneducated masses are under the thrall of the government, business interests and the priests. They are using tradition and superstition to perpetuate this cruelty. Those of you who agree that the massacres must stop must work to educate the people and divert the effort into a positive movement.

From any standpoint - ethically, morally or economically this massacre is idiotic.

Take courage - whilst this matter bypasses many westerners - many of us will work with you to make such cruelty history.

brutal

Seen in western cultures as well... the slaughter of billions of turkeys, pigs, goats and cows — - all in the name of