Muslim Animal Sacrifice Turns Dhaka Streets Red with Blood
09/15/2016
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All diversity is not equal, as perceptive observers have noted, particularly in the area of the humanitarian treatment of animals. As I documented in my 2006 VDARE article, Diversity Is Strength! It's Also… Cruelty To Animals, the barbarity ranges from the extraction of bile from live bears in China for traditional medicine to the Korean practice of blowtorching dogs being slaughtered for food in the belief that it makes the meat tastier, and many more appalling customs.

Islam’s religious holiday that focuses on sacrifice, Eid al-Adha, is particularly cruel, not to mention unsanitary, when the enthusiasm of DIY slaughterers fills the streets with the blood of dead animals.

 

The results of the practice of street slaughter were on display in Dhaka recently when the bloodletting coincided with heavy rains.

 

Can we expect this diverse custom to sprout up in America due to increased Muslim immigration? The diversity-afflicted city of Dearbornistan bears watching, along with others like San Diego.

Bangladesh: Rivers of blood run through Dhaka after animal sacrifices, CNN, September 15, 2016

In a bizarre consequence of Eid al-Adha celebrations in Bangladesh, animal sacrifices have combined with heavy rains to leave the streets awash with blood.

Shocking photos emerged from the capital Dhaka Wednesday that showed residents wading through streets flooded with a mix of animal blood and rainwater.

Also known as the Feast of Sacrifice, Eid al-Adha commemorates when God appeared to Abraham — known as Ibrahim to Muslims — in a dream and asked him to sacrifice his son as an act of obedience.

As Abraham was about to sacrifice his son, God stopped him and gave him a sheep to kill in place of his son. To commemorate God’s test of Ibrahim, many Muslim families sacrifice a goat, cow or sheep and share the meat with the poor.

Pakistani men use a crane to lift a young bull from the roof of a building in preparation for the Muslim annual festival of Eid al-Adha or the Festival of Sacrifice, in Karachi on September 4, 2016.

The holiday is the second biggest in the Muslim calendar after Eid al-Fitr, which follows the conclusion of Ramadan.

Authorities had designated 1,000 places in the city where people could make sacrifices, but some people still killed animals in the street, the Dhaka Tribune reported.

Heavy rain combined with bad drainage spread the blood-stained water through Dhaka.

Critics and animal activists took the opportunity to call the ancient ritual barbaric, while other complaints were leveled at Dhaka’s poor drainage system, as the capital has a longstanding problem with flooding.

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