Friday, November 04, 2005
Note: Day 1.
Day 1:
Before I take off, I'll be counting the days and leaving some memorabilia for retraction later. One of my thoughts that attract very little international attention is the rights of living beings in our shared world today. Although it seems like human rights do not apply to animals, they should be allowed their own special watchdog as well, because there's never enough of it. I can guess it may be questionable as to bringing up an issue like this in a place in time that barely recognizes the precious value of human life (let alone Nature's beasts). But, I was very hurt seeing a sheep killed today, a sacrifice dating back to the traditions of many religions, but in particular, a painful one. The matter of taking life from the animal is grossly under estimated, the matter of sawing slowly at the front of its throat while it bleeds to death is sickening, and the matter of giving out the meat to the poor is funny. Rarely is it permissible in my eyes to take the life of a sweet voiceless animal, but to also saw at it like somekind of unforgiving mercenary seems entirely uncalled for. They say the blood goes out of the animal because it's conscious and its heart beats for that minute until they kill itl thus the flow of blood gets the circulating veins emptied. I figure that hanging the animal upside down and having an automatic guillotine to cut its head completely off is just the same...the animals body and muscles still jerk for a little letting blood out all the SAME. Is it scientifically proven that the quantity of blood purged is relevant to the consciousness of the animal? What about this sawing thing...horrible, the animal is held down, and it can say nothing but bleat its damn poor heart out while the butcher does his job just as if he were at the office. If this is a holy practice, I'm sure hoping the "savab" doesn't apply to getting a brand new car (which in itself should be a sin in a country where there are more little kids begging than there are cars).
And the feeding of the poor...If there are a handful of people ho sacrifice and torture these animals to feed them to poor people they are only a handful. The rest take half of the animal and give out the rest to friends and neighbors who are usually NOT POOR. Ding, Ding, Ding! We have a winner.
And, if there is a group working for the advocation of animal rights here, I'm waiting to hear about it. And waiting. And waiting....
Here's something I got about the killing of such animals at Eid Al-Kabir a Muslim person's festival:
" As Aid El Kabir is a festival of sacrifice each Muslim household that can afford to do so will sacrifice an animal - usually a sheep. The head of the household will turn the animal’s head toward Mecca before slitting its throat. None of the animal is wasted as all parts will be turned into brochettes and eaten, except a few small pieces of the heart and liver which the women of the household cast into the corners of each room in order to keep away evil. Special prayers are said on the day of the festival and the holiday is a time for the giving gifts and visiting friends and family. Islamic law also says that some of the meat of the sacrifice must be shared with the poor."
Isn't there a verse in their holy quran-koran that states superstitions have no place in Islam? The tying of knots on a piece of rope- or something like that?
Before I take off, I'll be counting the days and leaving some memorabilia for retraction later. One of my thoughts that attract very little international attention is the rights of living beings in our shared world today. Although it seems like human rights do not apply to animals, they should be allowed their own special watchdog as well, because there's never enough of it. I can guess it may be questionable as to bringing up an issue like this in a place in time that barely recognizes the precious value of human life (let alone Nature's beasts). But, I was very hurt seeing a sheep killed today, a sacrifice dating back to the traditions of many religions, but in particular, a painful one. The matter of taking life from the animal is grossly under estimated, the matter of sawing slowly at the front of its throat while it bleeds to death is sickening, and the matter of giving out the meat to the poor is funny. Rarely is it permissible in my eyes to take the life of a sweet voiceless animal, but to also saw at it like somekind of unforgiving mercenary seems entirely uncalled for. They say the blood goes out of the animal because it's conscious and its heart beats for that minute until they kill itl thus the flow of blood gets the circulating veins emptied. I figure that hanging the animal upside down and having an automatic guillotine to cut its head completely off is just the same...the animals body and muscles still jerk for a little letting blood out all the SAME. Is it scientifically proven that the quantity of blood purged is relevant to the consciousness of the animal? What about this sawing thing...horrible, the animal is held down, and it can say nothing but bleat its damn poor heart out while the butcher does his job just as if he were at the office. If this is a holy practice, I'm sure hoping the "savab" doesn't apply to getting a brand new car (which in itself should be a sin in a country where there are more little kids begging than there are cars).
And the feeding of the poor...If there are a handful of people ho sacrifice and torture these animals to feed them to poor people they are only a handful. The rest take half of the animal and give out the rest to friends and neighbors who are usually NOT POOR. Ding, Ding, Ding! We have a winner.
And, if there is a group working for the advocation of animal rights here, I'm waiting to hear about it. And waiting. And waiting....
Here's something I got about the killing of such animals at Eid Al-Kabir a Muslim person's festival:
" As Aid El Kabir is a festival of sacrifice each Muslim household that can afford to do so will sacrifice an animal - usually a sheep. The head of the household will turn the animal’s head toward Mecca before slitting its throat. None of the animal is wasted as all parts will be turned into brochettes and eaten, except a few small pieces of the heart and liver which the women of the household cast into the corners of each room in order to keep away evil. Special prayers are said on the day of the festival and the holiday is a time for the giving gifts and visiting friends and family. Islamic law also says that some of the meat of the sacrifice must be shared with the poor."
Isn't there a verse in their holy quran-koran that states superstitions have no place in Islam? The tying of knots on a piece of rope- or something like that?
