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Qurbani: whose sin, whose piety, whose penance and at the
expense of whose life?
By Syed Kamran Mirza
January 17, 2006
T he theme of this
title above was taken from my old essay on Qurabani (Eid-ul-Azha)
written in early months of
2002.This essay was posted in News from Bangladesh and in FFI, which could
be read at: www.faithfreedom.org/Articles/SKM/sacrifice.htm.
“Whose sin, whose piety and whose
penance?” was one of the many questions asked in that essay. Now same
types of questions could be asked again this year, and those pertinent
questions are: at whose expenses
this Islamic madness of sacrifice is being performed? Whose life is being
sacrificed to earn Allah’s mercy? How Allah (if He is the creator) can
ask one life (human) to kill another life (cow’s life) for His
satisfaction? Why Allah needs blood for His satisfaction? And so on!
Every year Muslims all over the world kill mercilessly
millions of animal life in a single day—which they call “Sacrifice
(Qurbani) for Allah’s happiness.”
They do it to appease Allah. The origin of this madness named sacrifice
(killing animals) for Allah was derived from the myth related to
pre-biblical Prophet Abraham (Ibrahim in Islam).This belief system of
sacrifice is called burnt offerings
in Bible. This was the method of
sacrifice sanctioned for Jews, and Bible commanded this decree of God by
hundreds of scriptures throughout the Old Testament. Animal sacrifice was
prescribed for Jews and Christians by very strict Biblical injunction. Yet,
Jews and Christians stopped this barbarically mad practice longtime ago
once they realized that this is nothing more than an uncivilized,
barbaric, and inhumane practice.
But sadly though, the Muslims are busy killing animals to satisfy the
angry Allah just the way ancient uncivilized peoples used to sacrifice
human life (Naro baali)
to appease their deity.
Later in the course of human civilization, ancient people
used to sacrifice animals instead of human. Hindus and various other
tribal religions do occasionally practice this animal sacrifice even
today. But in this civilized era of computers and rockets no other world
religion except Islam does this inhuman cruelest ritual of animal killings
so massively. Muslims perform this barbaric ritual every year with
increasing Islamic zeal and fanatic devotions. In this Islamic craze of
animal sacrifice, in many occasions, people do observe the horrific
scenarios of unborn calves inside the torn opened gaping body cavity of
the sacrificed cows. Yet, there is not a slightest remorse to those hungry
meat eater pious Muslims. Question is how merciful Allah can let such
horrific thing to happen? No one ask who gave them right to appease Allah
at the expense of animal life.
One may argue that, well people kill thousands of animals
for food purposes. I would argue that killing for food is quiet different
issue. People may kill cows and many other animals, birds and fishes
as their food requirement, which they need for their survival, as the
Darwin theory very rightly says: survival of the fittest (might is right)
and this is the law of natural survival for all animals including humans.
Bottom-line is killing for food is not the act of appeasing God! But
Qurbani killing is for appeasement of God at the expense of other’s
life.
During the Last Eid-ul Azha (January 2005) I was in
Bangladesh. After the Eid-Prayer in Gulshan Mosque on my way to return
home I asked my driver to take some streets in Banani/Gulshan residential
area where devoted mussallees will go craze sacrificing (Qurbani) their
cattle and goats. To my amazement I saw almost every house were having at
least two animals, some having 5/6 cows ready to be slaughtered any
minutes. Then, suddenly what I saw my eyes could not believe it. Three
relatively young bearded, tupi and
jubba clad mullahs were frantically running through the street from one
house to another by waving in their
right hands naked blood stained reddened sword like knives (long
knife). When asked, my driver explained to me that these were mullahs who
slit the necks of Qurabani cows and goats. They are running to contest
other mullahs to get the job so that they can earn TK. 100.00 per cow for
neck slitting, and also lots of divine blessings from Allah. Divine
blessings from Allah for “neck cutting” job of innocent helpless cows?
It has reminded me Islamic
terrorists of al-Qaeda suicide bombers. What a cruel blind belief?
Satan Stoning Ceremony
In the final day of this Islamic (or Paganic culture)
annual Hajj the devout pilgrims take the giant step of their bogus hope of
erasing all of their sins (they have readily committed during the past
year) by stoning at the cement wall which they call Great Satan. Their mad
Islamic zeal is so strong that in their way of madness and zealotry almost
every year they themselves get killed in the way of Allah ( Fi
Sabilullah) while jostling each
other to pelting stone to the Satan.
At Mecca Satan stoning monkey dance of Muslims in full
session
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