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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op, what exactly is “backyard animal sacrifice”? Killing your dog and roasting it?[/quote]

I live in a Muslim country for my job.  They routinely sacrifice animals for the Eid holidays; there are two Eid holidays per year.  At least one of the Eid sacrifices has to do with God asking Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac.  I don't know if the second, summer Eid celebrates the same thing, but they do also sacrifice animals.  Coincidentally, Eid begins on June 27, so we've been talking about this in our house.

I teach at an international school and we have a lot of kids from the host country and surrounding Muslim countries in addition to the Western expats.  I had to ask my students never to talk to me about their Eid animals and how they are treated and killed because it upsets me so much.  What happens is that a family will go buy a lamb or sheep or goat or camel, treat it what they think is well for a few weeks, and then kill it with the family watching.  On the one hand, some Muslims here have told me the animals' deaths are "painless", but on the other hand I've heard a lot of kids (who don't understand yet how this is interpreted by non-Muslims) talking about what it actually looked like and how the animal was actually handled.  I find it sickening and won't describe it here.

In wealthier areas of the Middle East, this takes place among families and is largely not visible to non-Muslims.  You won't see anything to do with it as an expat in Dubai, for example, though it is happening behind the scenes.  In nearby places in the region that are poorer and don't have or cater to a Western expat community, like Karachi, where I've also spent time, one sees heads and piles of innards rotting in the streets around this time (I have photos I took of this, but don't know how to post them and it probably isn't appropriate here, but it is gruesome).

I had no idea this was allowed in the US.  I'm kind of appalled it happens there.  I do see a culture of callousness and what we would call casual cruelty and disregard of animal welfare in general (not just the Eid sacrifices, but even the way street cats and pets are treated here), and I do think it is related.  I do not think it is a good thing to expose children to violent, bloody killing of an animal during a fun celebration.

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Just wondering, what did you have for dinner yesterday?
At your most recent wedding or birthday party?
Were you celebrating life over a pile of animal carcasses? Drinking the nectar of a raped cow whose baby was murdered?[/quote]

I'm a vegan, thanks.[/quote]

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