Goats, Terrorists, and the People Who Love Them

Bina Shah:

This is an excellent article. I would like to refer the readers to the following para from the article:

``Go out to visit your relatives as is customary on Eid day and you will see the streets swimming in rivers of blood, innocent goats hanging from every tree outside every house with the skin being pulled off it while children laugh and point at the sight of the denuded goats. Bags of pale, bulging offal litter the streets like naked German tourists sunbathing on the beach at Majorca. Butchers squat at the traffic lights, their clothes covered in blood, carrying baskets of sharp knives and cleavers and comparing notes about how much the prize cow kicked around while its throat was being slashed and how fast they were able to finish the job.``

With only slight changes in the text, the same scenes can be reminiscent of Northern Alliance`s mercilessly killing the Pakhtoons before taking over northern towns of Afghanistan.

Your article indicates very well the wretchedness of this custom of slaughtering of animals. This dispatch of a goat, a cow or a camel ``in God`s way`` in hopes of winning ``sawab`` is no different from a criminal bribing the thanedar with chicken.
One day muslims will understand what religion and islam are all about, and stop these pagan rituals.

you wrote well, you sissy :)