Pakistani Blogger Slams Islamic Feast of Eid: ‘Call Me an Infidel’ But I Can‘t ’Make Merry‘ at ’Mass-Murdering’ Cute Animals
- Posted on November 9, 2011 at 11:44pm by
Tiffany Gabbay
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One of the most significant religious holidays celebrated by Muslims across the globe is the Eid Al-Adha, or “Festival of Sacrifice.” The three-day feast commemorates the biblical prophet Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice his son Ishmael in submission to God. To this end, millions of animals – goats, sheep, cows and camels – are sacrificed for the occasion.
A few days before the holiday began on November 7 a Pakistani blogger, Saad Zuberi, wrote a semi-satirical, semi-serious piece for The Express Tribune newspaper titled, “10 Things I Hate About Bakra Eid.”
Zuberi also noted the hypocrisy in Muslim children being scolded for watching action movies but not for watching the “brutal” slaughter of animals en masse, stating, ”…some parents think that watching Jackie Chan act like a nincompoop in a movie is bad influence for their kids, but that watching four blood-soaked men brutally attack, slaughter, skin and butcher an 800-pound cow – live – is healthy entertainment.”
Below is Zuberi’s laundry list of the many things he hates about Eid:
“10 Things I Hate About Bakra Eid”
1. The smell of goats, blood and freshly slaughtered meat. It’s everywhere!
2. Call me an infidel, but I just can’t bring myself to make merry at the idea of mass-murdering a few hundred thousand cute, furry, unsuspecting farm animals in a span of 72 hours… and that too publicly, in front of a sadistically gleeful audience.
3. All the barbeque talk. Show some sensitivity, people!
4. The questions: Are you slaughtering a goat or a cow? How much will you be spending this year? Only two days left, dude, where’s your animal? Seriously guys, I’ll get whatever I want, whenever I want – the fact that I’ll probably only be able to afford an undernourished midget cow is my business and my business alone!
5. How everyone, including some highly intelligent people, lose their marbles a week before Eid, spending every day just staring at their animals. Poor thing’s bound to get the heebie-jeebies!
6. Eid morning – help me God if I have to leave the house and witness the genocide… which I always do, with unrealistic expectations of remaining all Zen at the sight of blood and gutted animals.
7. Becoming a vegetarian for a couple of weeks after freaking out at the sight of above-mentioned blood. Especially if you’re the kind of person who actually looks forward to his weekly steaks and hamburgers.
8. How the true essence of the tradition is lost on most of us – people would gladly spend bundles of cash on four goats and two cows at Bakra Eid [i.e. Eid-ul-Adha] so they can feed their own greed and gluttony by stuffing their deep-freezers to full capacity, but go berserk if a truly deserving person should ask them for a little meat to feed his/her hungry children some other time during the year.
9. How some parents think that watching Jackie Chan act like a nincompoop in a movie is bad influence for their kids, but that watching four blood-soaked men brutally attack, slaughter, skin and butcher an 800 pound cow – live – is healthy entertainment.
10. Post-Bakra Eid dinner parties with red-meat dishes in great abandon. How very subtle!
(h/t: MEMRI)
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Comments (91)
carl_in_ohio
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 1:38amAsk — Wendy’s, McDonalds, KFC, Burger King, Red Lobster — how many animals are processed everyday to feed the fast food hungers in the US alone?
Report Post »Solzhenitsin
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 3:10pmAt least the animals at Eid are killed before cooking- we drop live lobsters and crabs into boiling water!
Please note that this celebration is a commemoration of Abraham’s sacrifice of the ram God provided in place of his son Isaac (but Mohamed changed it to Ishmael in the Koran); it is not a sacrifice in and of itself. I know Christians who live in Muslim countries who have been invited to attend the feastwhich follows this slaughtter. They do so as it provides great opportunities to converse about the whole point of blood atonement and their faith in the fully atoning sacrificial death & subsequent resurrection of Christ.
Report Post »capitalideals
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 4:51pmSo you don‘t see the difference between slitting a screaming animal’s throat and how it’s done in America? Another Muslim apologist, huh?
Report Post »SHOWMESTATEGUY
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 6:53pmBut do they dress them up before they kill them?
Report Post »SerikFox
Posted on November 11, 2011 at 12:44am@sohlzenitsin One little difference: the lobsters and crabs die the second they touch the water. The “screaming” has to do with their shell. Also, we are way more humane to our animals. Want to argue with me on that? Don’t try – my job is taking care of livestock (cows).
On a side note – I find that after taking care of most cows you don’t feel so bad about eating them (the fact that I am virtually the opposite of a vegetarian might help). Most of them even have names and I wouldn’t feel bad about eating them. One or two I wouldn‘t like to eat but I wouldn’t mind the rest.
Report Post »13axes
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 1:33amIn case you missed it-Obama Nov.7 2011 Quote: Michelle and I extend our greetings for a happy Eid al-Adha to Muslims worldwide and congratulate those performing Hajj.
Thousands of Muslim Americans are among those who have joined one of the world’s largest and most diverse gatherings in making the pilgrimage to Mecca and nearby sites.
As Muslims celebrate this Eid, they will also commemorate Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice his son by distributing food to those less fortunate around the world. They join the United States and the international community in relief efforts to assist those struggling to survive in the Horn of Africa and those recovering from the devastating earthquake in Turkey.
The Eid and Hajj rituals are a reminder of the shared roots of the world’s Abrahamic faiths and the powerful role that faith plays in motivating communities to serve and stand with those in need. On behalf of the American people, we extend our best wishes during this Hajj season.
Report Post »dutchy
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 4:14amBarry Soetero is an Obamanation!
Report Post »RossPoldark
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 4:16amCan you give to poor who are none muslim. Can you give to poor and hungry jews, or Christians? Just asking.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 4:26amIn Christian Theology… The scrafice of Isaac by Abraham (stayed by an Angel) was a Prophecy Of Deed… Fulfilled by Christ (compare Sacrifice Events to the Crucifixion Events of the Gospel)… God replacing Isaac with Christ… being the Perfect Offering and Satisfaction… thereby Ending all Offerings to God (as nothing can be as Good)!
Report Post »AJAYW
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 5:13amA bunch of hog breeders thats why they don’t eat pork
Report Post »niki
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 7:20amWait, I’m sorry. Are you trying to justify your opinion by saying Barry supports it? I don’t give a crap who supports what. Wrong is wrong. The truth has no agenda.
Report Post »poorrichard09
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 7:37amBarbarians. Where the hell is PETA?
Report Post »jzs
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 8:54amYeah, here in America, when get our turkey to celebrate Thanksgiving or Christmas, we let somebody else kill it. I mean, we used to kill the turkeys ourselves, but that was before grocery stores and stuff.
Report Post »BCPATIOT
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 11:45amNo doubt in my mind,he’s a muslim-I don’t care he is-I care he lied,to further his agenda,and get where he is now. But then, it’s ok for these guys to lie-to an infidel.
Report Post »Morris
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 7:47pmStill Think that Dictator Barack Hussein Obama our Muslim-in-Chief,is not a (MUSLIM)????
Report Post »carl_in_ohio
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 1:32amThis past Eid, I was invited to witness the sacrifice.
As a Christian, I was interested in watching the event.
It was done quickly and cleanly. It was NOT barbaric.
A prayer was said over the goat, and the goat became quiet.
The cutting was done quickly by a professional butcher.
The meat was then later distributed to members of the community.
Nothing was wasted. The clean up was done quickly too.
If you eat any meat, where do you think that meat came from and was prepared?
Report Post »Letting the blood flow out is cleaner than the stockyard process.
Or is field dressing a deer much different?
jaxson
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 3:27amnothing like honoring a sacrific to another god there carl? isnt that a little jezebelish?
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 5:33amEating the meat of a Sacrifice… makes you a member of the Clergy of that Religion!
Report Post »loriann12
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 7:25amActually, the Apostle Paul wrote that you could eat anything. Only someone of weak faith believes that meat sacrificed to idols is bad. The reason you DON’T do it is just for that reason, the weak in faith may stumble.
The original story said the animal was gutted and skinned while still alive. It doesn‘t mention the slit it’s throat first, to kill it and then butchered it. He was thoroughly disgusted in having to watch it. I’m not against slaughtering animals and if they did it quickly and cleanly, more power to them. This is from someone of the faith (Muslim), not an outsider witnessing the event. I’m sure they were more relaxed and true to self with him.
Report Post »thunderbolt
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 7:26amTo kill an animal for a sacrifice to God is barbaric.
Report Post »To kill an animal for food may be necessary.
lukerw
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 10:13am@LORIANN12
Report Post »Every Religion has a Theology concerning Holy Sacrafice. In the OldTestament, the Meat of the Sacrifice was given to the Tribes of the Clergy. In the NewTestament, Christ as the Sacrifice (to end all other sacrifices) says to take Wine & Bread as if Blood & Meat… as Communion!
These are Religious Values, and matters of Faith… and not alike a virus that you accidently catch; if you take Communion, you profess to be a Christian, where in all are Clergy!
I suggest that you read historical references to theology as related to all Religions.
P.S. Do not just take Paul’s word for everything… but do your own research… as Paul never met Christ… but just happened to attend the same Religious Teaching School, at different times.
Welcome Black Carter
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 10:51amThe islam “allah” is an idol. They are sacrificing to a false god.
Report Post »searching for the Truth
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 11:39amActually, one of the true things the Apostle Paul admonished his new Gentile believers about – eating food sacrificed to other gods.
Report Post »Hollywood
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 1:02pmAs the complainer munched on his Goat Roti!
Report Post »TiocFaidhArLa
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 1:31amSo what?
Report Post »staxmarshall
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 1:26amIt’s just practice for what they would do to the rest of the human race that fails to submit to their conquest.
Report Post »scout n ambush
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 1:18amMuslims here do the same thing a govenor down south was trying to stop this in his state but he caved.
Report Post »KAdams
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 1:15amUm… there’s something wrong here. It wasn’t Ishmael that Abraham was asked to take up to the mountain, it was Isaac.
Ishmael = father of muslims
Isaac = father of the jews.
So either the reporter is wrong, or the Muslims are celebrating the wrong event.
Report Post »Exrepublisheep
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 1:53amexcellent point, I missed it.
Report Post »Salamander
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 1:55amNoteworthy observation! Maybe one is The Holy Bible version and the other is the Quran version? Hmmm, no wonder things are so screwed up in the World! We can’t even get our stories straight! I just read the Wikipedia blurbs on both! Thanks for the inspiration!
Report Post »Texas.7
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 2:25amIslamic teaching is that it was Ishmael and not Isaac who would have been offered- which doesn’t make sense on many levels. If Abraham was willing to send Ishmael away, certainly, the prospect of offering him up wouldn’t have carried the same weight the request to offer Isaac did. Secondly, it was the idea that Abraham was asked to offer up what God had promised him all those years- the blessing itself returned to God, which made it such a heavy request.
Ishmael, the son born of Abraham’s agreement with Sarah to conceive through Hagar, was akin to the offering of Cain, which came from his own labor. Isaac, the branch and fruit of God’s blessing, resembled more the gift of life itself, as with Abel’s offering- returning God’s gifts back to Him. And Abraham, trusting with all of his heart, was willing.
But God had something else in mind. He knew what had to be done. And because Abraham was willing to offer up his only son- God granted him the blessing. By faith, Abraham was willing to do what only God Himself could do. For it was by the blood of Christ alone that all of mankind would be blessed. Abraham and his descendants carried that promise by inheritance and obedience, which can truly only be received by faith in Jesus Christ- God’s Son, who was sacrificed so that we could be saved.
All offerings till that moment in time pointed to Christ. He is the only fulfillment that is recognized in the heavens. His death ends in victory, so that we may tru
Report Post »searching for the Truth
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 11:46amJeffery 7112 said it best.
Report Post »searching for the Truth
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 12:02pmA revision of History is taking place – It is happening in many entries.
Report Post »searching for the Truth
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 12:04pmBe careful where one goes on the internet – one might get zapped – no relation to sources mentioned – my disclaimer.
Report Post »KAdams
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 6:09pmGo figure… Muslims honor both a bastard son of a whore (for all that she had Sarah’s permission) and their prophet is a pedophile. Great faith foundation, there.
Report Post »sillyfreshness
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 1:14amI’m sure this blogger will have a call for his head by those backwards, barbaric, Medieval, ignorant, hateful, cave man mentality Muslims. They are just like modern day Vikings or Aztecs living among us. Why can’t Muslims go by the wayside as all these other crazies did?
Report Post »Truthmonster
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 1:08amSavages, we can’t let these sub cretins get a bomb. Inbreeding has taken it’s toll with thease people.
Report Post »NI6HTHAWK
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 1:17amToo late….
Report Post »Holliston777
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 12:44amWhat people don‘t realize is these Pakistani’s love to screw boys out in the bush. This is the reason so many gay service personnel are translators. Maybe you should write about the exploitation of boys instead of your PC article on animals. If people have some moral sense other things would fall into place.
Report Post »One Man Progressive Wrecking Crew
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 12:44amA sane Muslim, they do exist!!
Report Post »SHOWMESTATEGUY
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 12:42amWhy do they dress them up before they kill them? Seems a little sick to me.
Could this be one of the virgins they will get in the after life? Really I’m just asking, don’t know?
Report Post »Eliasim
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 12:41amWhat really annoys me is that people get so bothered by someone cutting up an animal, and yet they pay no notice to how the wicked systems in the world cut up their souls. Really it‘s because most people are gutless cowards filled with arrogance and so they don’t want to look at the way the controllers of societies keep them wanting and discontent so they work and work and work towards nothingness, when they could have been content buzzing with their soul-mate and a common people. I call it, them plowing my fields, or them bringing a flood. And while people could have married their soul-mate who was also born in or near the same community, instead the floods carried them away to another region far far away. How do they do this sinister deed? Closing factories, opening factories, people moving away to find a job, large large companies bringing workers in from out of town, moving the family far away to a better school system, and a hundred other ways to get people to move to other regions. I just thought I would tell them, God knows.
Report Post »Eliasim
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 12:48amAnd then they have even more nerve to own publishing companies to publish books on happiness, and how to find contentment, and even romance novels. I‘m afraid you folks just don’t know how wicked things really are.
Report Post »Eliasim
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 12:51amAnd people wonder why the Native Americans had a bad sense for Europeans.
Report Post »Eliasim
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 12:54amBut guess what? Now God’s going to turn over your ground.
Report Post »Eliasim
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 1:25amTherefore you gutless people don’t want to look at the things they do to you and God. They steal your soul, and then they sell it back to you piece by piece but you get nothing from it. When you had it coming from God to you all along.
Report Post »restorehope
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 12:34amI am more concerned that Islam is willing to slaughter the entire nation of Israel. That kind of puts things in perspective.
Report Post »phillipwgirard
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 1:12amSeems to me they slaughter everything
Report Post »13axes
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 12:31amObama’s and Cambridge,Mass school district dig this kind of sh!+ sick freakin demons http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2803785/posts http://www.theblaze.com/stories/mass-school-district-to-close-for-islamic-religious-holiday/
Report Post »Marnin
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 12:17amgood luck on staying alive!
Report Post »THE AUDACITY OF NO
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 12:13amGod gave us Christ the Messiah so that the people of God would no longer have to make blood sacrifices to atone for their sins…Jesus became that sacrifice for all time. This is one more proof that islam comes from the enemy of God, satan, by denying that fact. May God touch the hearts of all those duped by this evil religion and find true peace and salvation in Christ…
Report Post »Falsegods
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 12:29amAudacity,
Report Post »may God hear your prayer, in Jesus’ name, Amen.
Captain Crunch
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 12:12amThey have no clue what the real meaning of the sacrifice is. The muslems are more worthy of the knife than the innocent animals.
Report Post »Whirled Peas
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 12:06amHow everyone, including some highly intelligent people, lose their marbles a week before Eid, spending every day just staring at their animals.
Report Post »*****************************
Reliving the sexual pleasures with tears in their eyes. I guess the jihadi incubator will have to suffice until more animals can be procured.
tree hugger
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 12:03amWhat can one say after reading this. Where is the ‘humane’ and ‘humanity’ and ‘empathy’ in these people?
Report Post »ashestoashes
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 12:13amApparently this sweet Pakistani who wrote this has the humanity and dignity not to want to slaughter innocent animals..There are some people that this matters not at all to them…they look upon animals as they do plants…I happen to see animals as creatures that God gave us dominion over to look after and care for.. It always broke my heart as a child to see things like this and it still does….But it just goes to prove..that even among Muslims..there are those who do have a heart..I think that they have been selected by the true God for something greater.. like getting to know Him and His Son Jesus..We are not to judge others for what they eatl…and they are not to judge us…I have heard it said that a person can achieve a greater spirituality by becoming a vegetarian..God Bless this Muslim and may the hand of YWVH be upon him.
Report Post »phillipwgirard
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 1:15amThey don’t have any humanity
Report Post »Chet Hempstead
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 5:15amAll the meat is eaten, and the slaughtering practices are no worse than what they do in slaughterhouses. Unless you are a vegetarian who considers all meat eating immoral, it’s hypocritical to use this as an excuse to attack them.
Report Post »SHOWMESTATEGUY
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 12:00amIn America you can’t step on a spider without the dem libs howling in pain for the poor creature. But for some reason they are mute when it comes to anything the muslims do. Mass murder of animals is okay as long as the muslims do it. Not one word of protest from any lib that I’ve heard of. How about you?
Report Post »restorehope
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 12:14amPretty sure the wackos at PETA will ignore this one. If nothing else, they are pragmatic. Why risk having millions of Muslims after you? The animals are on their own in this fight.
Report Post »progressives-are-retards
Posted on November 9, 2011 at 11:58pmCan you say, “Dead man walking!”
Report Post »Ookspay
Posted on November 9, 2011 at 11:57pmOh How cute to see a muslime with a heart. Now how about saying something about the slaughter of those other animalsHUMAN BEINGS!
Report Post »Starkadder
Posted on November 9, 2011 at 11:56pmBetter EID than IED
Report Post »jeffrey7112
Posted on November 10, 2011 at 9:49amGreat line. Unfortuantely, one often leads to the other.
Report Post »restorehope
Posted on November 9, 2011 at 11:54pmSure hope the blogger has a good escape route planned. I don’t think his countrymen have a good sense of humor when it comes to their religion.
Report Post »dontbotherme
Posted on November 9, 2011 at 11:59pmrestor…. like.
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