I went to Twitter and
found a trending protest: against thousands of animals being
sacrificed/slaughtered "by Hindus" in Nepal at an annual festival.
Some journos were trying to debate it with all and sundry; I wondered what was
there to debate when you knew the result - a declaration that
"Hindus" were wrong in "killing" animals in the "name
of religion" (just see the number and title of news in the image).
Fine.
Then I came to Facebook and found a trending event: people posting pictures of
variety of dishes made from "sacrificed/slaughtered/killed" turkeys
"by proud people" in the Western world.
I wonder why no debates if
humans are wrong in killing animals and birds in the name of "Thanksgiving
festival"? Stats tell that more than 45 million of turkeys are killed
every year on Thanksgiving day alone (which fell on 27th Nov this year)! So I
wondered if it was because turkey-killers were from rich Western countries and
hence could get away with killing 45 million animals while Hindus from poor
countries will be declared savage for killing some thousand of animals? Why this
hypocrisy?
Then I remembered Bakri-Id; data tells the number of animals killed
on that day runs in Billions - and I guess mostly in poor countries including
India! So it should not be rich country Vs poor country thing!
It seems since
Hindus are most tolerant and historically have gone through many social
reforms, it is easier to target only Hindus for doing something which even many
other religions do. I guess most protesters don't have guts to target other
communities for fear of retaliation.
Anyways, I think all such protests which
inflate any small defect in Hindus to the sky will only benefit Hinduism in the
long term...
