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Goat Meat Found in Home of Indian Man Killed Over Rumors That He Ate Beef
http://www.thedailymeal.com/travel/goat-meat-found-home-indian-man-killed-over-rumors-he-ate-beef/123015
A preliminary investigation regarding the death of Mohammad Ikhlaq the Indian Muslim who was beaten to death by an angry crowd over rumors that he had slaughtered and eaten a cow has found that the meat in question taken from Ikhlaqs home was goat meat, not beef.
In September, Ikhlaq and his family were attacked by an estimated 100 people in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, where the possession and killing of cows is illegal. The animal is considered sacred to the countrys 80 percent Hindu majority. In recent months, an increasingly conservative ruling party has been seen as condoning a number of acts of violence against non-Hindus who do eat beef, or are suspected of doing so.
Roughly a month after Ikhlaqs death, another Muslim man, Mohammad Hasmat Ali, was also beaten to death by a mob who suspected him of stealing a cow.
A doctors note from the Government Veterinary Hospital in Dadri, written in September, said, It seems that this meat belongs to goat progeny. The meat has been sent to another lab for a final forensic test, according to the New York Times.
mmonk
(52,589 posts)malaise
(269,091 posts)about what your neighbor is eating.
Shakes head.
ellenrr
(3,864 posts)remember the woman who was beaten, stoned, and burned to death in Kabal bec. it was RUMORED she had burned a Koran.
It turned out she hadn't burned a Koran.
She was martyed and 100's or thousands came out to her funeral.
she is forgiven.
But what if she HAD burned a Koran?
Would this merit her punishment?
No one - even the women who demanded that she be "rehabilitated" and remembered for being a good woman - no one said in the BBC program I saw last nite, that it is immaterial whether or not she burned a Koran--
that the point is the way this mob behaved.
and I would say the same thing about this case of the cow or goat.
Spider Jerusalem
(21,786 posts)malaise
(269,091 posts)in the name of imaginary friends are beyond empty - fugg all religion.
Happy New Year Spider Jerusalem
Igel
(35,323 posts)It's about the cow, religion, symbols, and societal norms. "Cow" we don't care about; "religion" we care slightly more about. But when it comes to the sanctity of symbols and conformity to the "right" social norms, DUers are all over it--as is pretty much everybody else.
There are anecdotes--some specific (1943, specific newspaper, in Turkmenistan) about an editor who was bullied until he was hospitalized from a heart attack and exiled from the Party (meaning he'd lose his job and any decent social status) for a typo: gavnokomanduyushchii, referring to a Red Army commander. "Glavnokomanduyushchii" means "commander in chief" or "supreme commander," but not necessarily Stalin. Drop out the 'l' and it's pronounced exactly the same in standard Russian as "govnokomanduiushii" or "shit-commander".
Fable has it that somebody else got 7 years in the camps in 1951 for the same typo.
Similar apocryphal stories about "polkovodets" (troop leader) and "palkovvodets" (stick-inserter) abound.
That these are apocryphal isn't the point; this kind story is plausible because of very real persecution for random errors that happened, not because anybody much cared about the person making the error, although that no doubt happened, but because such errors were jabs, however accidentally, at a symbol of state power and authority, a state with policies that many supported or a leader that many valued.
Couple that with suspicion and it's a toxic mix. Not about religion. Nor "what somebody's eating." Because we must protect and advance our symbols and our causes, our leaders and power that we support.
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)FLPanhandle
(7,107 posts)I'd like to think that one day the human race will get past it's desire for mythical gods and other silly beliefs.
MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)smh
KentuckyWoman
(6,688 posts)It's just basic bullying. Take religion out of the picture and a humans will still bully. The powers will also still condition the majority to have an "us vs them" mentality to maintain control.
Human's are simply violent. Any excuse will do.
Green Forest
(232 posts)How very sad. Conservative interpretations of religious dictat seem to always result in civil injustice.