Thing that is more crucial than sacrificing animals on Ied-Adha
I got a petition from a forum i joined condemning animal
sacrifice practices during Ied Adha time. Briefly, they advocated like “it’s so
savage when it comes to animal sacrifices during religious occasions. Most of
these animal sacrifices take place in open areas near religious places watched
even by children. The animals are killed by untrained persons causing much pain
to them. Moreover, other animals also watch it causing trauma to them.”
Well there is always much agreement and disagreement as to
whether animals have right and I am not bother with whatever they reason. But
often people even my friends in other side of the world ask if animals should
have rights and quite simply my answer is yes! Animals surely deserve to live
their lives free from suffering and exploitation. While it may sound logical
for people wanting animals such as farm animals to have rights, animal rights
extend much further than that and the concept of rights that people advocate
for animals, doesn’t be on the same boat. A right as the theory suggests, is
made by a moral agent under principles that govern both the claimant and the
target of the claim. The idea of animal rights however, strives to make all
animals have the same legal standing under the law of human being. If so, this would
mean that mosquitoes, spiders, or fish for instance, would be on the same legal
standing as human in which human can be charged with manslaughter under the
idea of animal right, yet in fact, no one brings lions to trial for murder when
they kill a wildebeest, noone reasonably expects a tiger to feel guilty for
devouring a zebra and a cat regrets for toying with a mouse. As absurd as these
examples may sound, giving them rights doesn’t mean giving them the same or
equal rights as human. Equality doesn’t require identical or equal treatment.
It fulfills what is need not what is wanted and human have duties to treat
animal in the good ways, look after them, that’s what so called rights for
animal.
While people are often seen wearing wool, leather, and eating
McDonald’s burgers, the issue on animal sacrifice has no ending and is harder
to answer because it’s more subjective. The opponents keep pointing and asking
why the practice of animal sacrifices is justified in the name of God during
certain religious celebration, say Ied Adha. I don’t see the point of asking
this as an Islam-specific question. Animal sacrifice as far as i am concern, to
various deities has been around since the beginning of religion, and it exists
even in sects in Hinduism and Sikhism and that similar discourse is also
circulated around other celebrations carrying out mass animal slaughtering such
as turkeys for Thanksgiving or chickens in the days leading up to Yom Kippur.
This is to imply in accordance with one of the holy books stating that animals
were put on earth to serve human beings.
Unless you are vegan
and forbid the killing of animals for all purposes, I find the outcry about
religious sacrifice awkward and hypocritical. Around million animals are
slaughtered every month for meat: cows, pigs, goats, chicken, rabbits, and you
can presume which cattle with high number get slaughtered every month for food.
If you wouldn’t eat beef why eat dog? If you wouldn’t eat dog why eat pig?
Dogs, cows, chickens, pigs, have the same capacity to feel pain but it is
prejudice based on species to think of animal as a companion and the other as
dinner. Meat is good food and if religious sacrifice allows to donate of meat
to the poor and the needy, why create a fuss about it? I remember when I was
kid, eating meat is the prestigious thing for my fam for we did not enjoy the
meat anytime we wanted. I wasn’t raised in an affluent family and when and that
Tasrik moment (3 days after Ied) was probably one of the most awaited day for
me and the other needy people hoping someone carrying bags of meat knocked my
door. Once I got it, I was like the most fortune person in the world.
While seeing this
issue furthermore in current context, where muslims slaughter the animals,
enjoy eating meat in Tasrik days happily with their belong family, and the outrages’ opponents for the animals’
blood that spill, we forget that in Myanmar, an ethnic are being slaughtered
tracing a question to be brought up as the alteration for the previous status
quo, of whether the human are worthless than an animal and we wonder if human
are justified to slaughter other human race as well as wondering why the
opponents are keeping in silence. Inspired by Miss Ira' thought at the previous post.
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