"Children are considered pretty sturdy up here in the North.
During the whole giraffe debate my Faroese housemate was like “I don’t see why people are so offended by children seeing an anatomy lesson. On the Faroe Islands school children are shown how to kill a sheep”"
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In Morocco when they sacrifice a sheep for Aid (Eid) all the men in the families just take the sheep to the roof of the apartment block and hack at the sheep with a blunt knife until it dies. None of these guys know what they’re doing and the other sheep watch their friends getting hacked up while they wait their turn. I’ve never seen it myself but I’ve got a friend who’s been a couple of times and she says it’s brutal.
The sheep are blindfolded and cut in a specific artery in my experience?
They should give a government program of sheep killing lessons. Anyone have the king of morocco’s email address?
If Wikipedia is to be believed these people aren’t following Islamic rules. I’d wager that this is once again an issue that stems from traditions made for people of a different time. I assume slaughtering animals used to be a common skill but today expecting the average untrained city dwelling man to correctly slaughter a goat once a year inevitably leads to a lot of needlessly suffering animals.
Just for my own sake, if I got told I’m slaughtering a sheep I would sharpen my knife and research how to get it over with as quick as possible. Maybe order some tarps or a kiddie pool for the blood.
No way I’d want to drag that out.
Wikipedia is correct. The Qurbani I’ve been to usually have a butcher or an experienced member to guide making the right single cut so that the animal does not suffer.
Sounds lovely. Humans are such beautiful creatures.
We are a most creative sort, there’s no denying that.
This is not particularly widespread or legal for Muslims in the West and not relevant to the topic at hand. The only use is creating a justification for religious hate.
Doesn’t sound like they’re hating on muslims, it sounds like they’re just… bemoaning the poor treatment of foreign sheep.
The issue is not that the sheep aren’t being treated badly, but they are generalized to being Muslim.
Being in Charlie Manson’s cult isn’t an American thing either, although most were Americans.
are you and I reading the same comment? It is a relevant anecdote to the topic at hand – the comic, depicting that different cultures have different customs, in this case of acceptable practices for butchering animals – which is not at all a “justification for religious hate”.
Personally, being aware of some of the other more brutal customs human civilization has come up with over the centuries (the Aztecs come to mind but I can name more if you wish), what Moroccans do with their sheep seems pretty tame to me.
I get the feeling you’re not commenting in good faith, though.
But why bring up that one in particular with a sweeping overgeneralization? It has got that smell. Using sweeping generalizations against people of “lesser” faiths, ethnicities, genders, or other affiliations which are protected always has that kind of smell.