Sic Semper Tyrannis

Souri jan

I agree with you… my grandma did it for a couple of years and gave it up .... my brother and sisters put up a good fight... this was 40ish years ago.  Since then we have become very mindful of ALL creatures. 

We are animal protectors in Iran and confront people if we run into them….  Agreed, keep this damn thing inside your house ...which MOST Iranians who practice this barbaric act do it anyway for fear of someone asking for a piece…... We are for this practice to discontinue.

A feast to satisfy the Arab pagan Moon-God (aka "Allah")

This is a feast of sacrifice to satisfy the Pagan arab god called "Allah". May the blood spilled on this day bring him rezaayat:

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Rejoice muslims. Slaughter the animals to keep "Allah" and his 4 daughters (hobal, laat, manaa, ozzaa) happy. 

AO You Live Under A Stone

If you have the time, I would be happy to take you to any one of these meat processing plants in the South Easy for poultry or in the Midwest for beef. You can watch not one animal - but literally hundreds at a time bleeding to death in these giant plants with their necks cut off and rivers of blood flowing ...and then if you have the courage to come and visit and tour these facilities (and I actually have special access rights to give you real tours) ONLY THEN you can say that killing one sheep in this figure is inhumane, violent and as you put it Islamic. You should see how they catch and hang these animals on hooks, penetrate the heads of these animals with electrodes, shock them, then cut their throats off with rotating discs, the literally rivers (I mean thousands of gallons of blood that flows out of these places ...so much so they actually have their own waste processing plants) ... So you know, something like two BILLION heads of chicken are cut off a year in the US; and somthing like 100,000 cows slaughterd a DAY (yes a day) in the US alone. I even dare you to go to the slaughter houses in New Zealand and see how they treat sheep there.

Until you have done that (I mean visited these plants) you really don't have a point of reference to call anything violent, civilized or uncivilized.

Just because they give a toy away with a happy meal - doesn't make it a happy process to put a beef patty on a piece of bread.

Your post is designed to incite hate, and polarize a world that is chomping on the bit for massive war ... and you live under a stone, you have no concept of what your polarization can or will do; and what the cost in HUMAN BLOOD will be for the hatred you incite. You are ignorant, small minded, arrogant, and provincial in your outlook and attitude.

You frame of reference is twisted. Somehow, In your mind, 3000 americans dying on 9/11 (2001) is a bigger deal than 1 MILLION Iranians dying as a result of the US sponsored Iraq Invasion of Iran on 9/22 (1980). You simply have no concept of REAL carnage and what it does to people, families, lives, nations etc.

You live under a stone....with your head deep in the sand.

(Just so you know, believe it or not, Cows on this planet and the feed processing cycles that support them produce more greenhouses gases than cars and their petroleum infrastructure ... I am not a Hindu or vegetarian; but there are very good books on the food chain in the west that are worth reading - Fast Food Nation is one, etc. etc. Please take the time to educate yourself...and grow up a little.) 

Salaman Parsi or Farsi?

Most of my family members are vegetarians. ..  

 One cannot hate an action or cake and eat too… just saying.

My family did

Dr Ala

My late father was used to practice this, every year....and we were always giving it to the poor people who were knocking at the door, from the first hours of the day...... The only things we were keeping for us, were the livers and what we call kaleh-pacheh....

I admit that i hated this. The poor sheep was kept at home for a few days before being beheaded. We, the children were used to play with it, and give him water and food....then a few days later, we had to be witnessing his beheading, in a very savage manner. The guy who was coming to kill the sheep, was taking off the skin and keeping it for himself. There, it was the ugliest scene to be seen.

I hope they stop doing this, at least at home! 

Brother Ala

" My family and I are animal protectors and we hate to see this or similar pictures be it in Iran or other countries." Mr Ala

But I am sure you and your family love to eat the ghomeh sabzi and gheimeh baademjoon with the same meat of those poor gossfands! Not to gort the kabobe laaye noon !!

This is called, double standards brother.

For an Islamic democracy

I dare you

I dare all you Islam lovers who are hiding behind your Freedom of Speech mask to watch this 69 second clip and still tell me Islam is not a religion of violence:

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I dare you to watch this 104 second clip and tell me Islam is not a religion of pedophilia:

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENWaWcRvGtM

I dare you to explain to me what Larijani means when he says "Flogging in Islam is not torture":

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So please spare us the "you are ignorant" speech. Your hanaa has lost its color! 

My family and I do NOT approve this picture...

 It is NOT right to do this in public SPECIALLY in front of children.  It is damn disgrace to humanity. 

Show me ONE Iranian who kills these poor goosfands or other creatures and shares their meat with others.  I have NOT seen One person or One family to share.  So much for Eid-e-ghroban… it is ALL show….

My family and I are animal protectors and we hate to see this or similar pictures be it in Iran or other countries.

We were a country that people used to say…. Mayazar k mori k daneh kesh ast... what the hell ... 

What can be done to stop this non-sense?  My family members and I speak about it loudly and damn people who do it in public.  What the hell...

So, that's your response?

You live in America because of freedom of religion? IRONIC, at the very least. I live here because there's an element of Freedom From Religion. Of course, there are right wing religious nuts, but for now, they are not very powerful politically. That may change, however......

Like I said, walk a mile in the shoes of your female compatriots and see how it feels before you beat your chest for the religion of peace....

It ain't even your religion for crying outloud.

I am Mr. CoP, by the way.

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freedom of religion in the

freedom of religion in the u.s. lets you do what is depicted in the picture of the blog (whether you like it or not).  freedom of speech is exemplified by the written words under the picture above (whether you like it or not).  even hate speech is protected by law as long as you don't incite people to bash each other on the head or commit slander.

there are also other rights but i keep it short for this session.  class dimissed.

professor ghadimi

Terrible blog

Jews do EXACTLY the same when they slaughter animals. And have you read and followed all sorts of stories and video clips here in the U.S. about cruelty to cows, ship, etc., when they are slaughtered here by large meat corporations? Why is it that you never write about this?

I am sorry, but your view of Islam has always been extremely superficial, uninformed, and shallow:

Some of the leading figures in the Constitutional Revolution were the clerics. Some of the strongest reformers before and after that revolution were clerics. Hassan Modarres was a great anti-dictatorship man. Some of the most loyal supporters of Dr. Mohammad Mosaddegh were practicing Muslims and clerics. Some of the leading foes of the VF regime are clerics. Some of the most innovative ideas - such as dividing Islamic teachings into primary ones that cannot be changed (very few) and secondary ones that are subject to change (99 percent) have been proposed by Shiite clericc, ideas that Judaism and the Catholic Church will not have for decades, if not centries.

Yet, you, with almost no knowledge of Islam, if any, take one picture and demonize Islam and hence Muslims, and the picture is about something that occurs, for example, routinely in nations like Australia, Argentina, the U.S., and in Israel.

Islam demands blood? How many Muslims have been murdered by Christian nations and Israel since WW II, and how many by Muslims? How many native Latin Americans and Africans were murdered by colonialists and christian missionaries in 17-20th century, and how many by Muslims? The least you can do is just a bit of reading about such historical facts, before indulging in writing such a blog.

And, finally, are there not any more important issues than slaughter of ship? If the point is to "expose" Islam, it has been thousands of times, including routinely on this website.

Mammad

"The civilized people"

also slaughter in the name of God and Religion. But they slaughter human beings. See how they slaughtered millions in the name of Judaism and Christianity.

And I think you are 100% vegetarian. You don't like meat. People in the western countries eat PIGS. In China they eat Monkey, Dog, Insects, Lizards etc.

So you don't agree with all of them. And do you know that 95% of the world is non-vegetarian.

Islam does not force you to become a Non-Veg. You need not kill animal to be a true moslem.

But you need to kill or sponsor killing to be a true Zionist.

"Freedom of Religion"

AMERICA: I live in America and it is my love for "Freedom of Religion" that is speaking here. 

If it makes you feel better by calling me "Islam lover" -- that's fine. I'm expressing my love and deep respect for "Freedom of Religion." It's a profound concept, with which entire Empires were built.

oh afsaneh khanoom where do I begin?

Dear lady:

Christinaity did not burn my house, Islam did (then and now).

I continue to be amazed at those who live in the west  but beat their chest for Islam. IT IS NOT OUR RELIGION, no matter how long ago we were "pursuaded about its divinity!

Please do not lecture about True Islam either: What you see is what you get. By the way I only want its paws off my ancestarl land. Otherwise, knock yourself out. 

I suggest you take your love for Islam and return to Iran where you can enjoy first hand all it has to offer its female followers. Ask about your worth against that of a man, ask who gets the kid if there's a divorce, ask....

Othewise: I am hateful and you're a hypocrite!

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my "point"

my "point" is: that you allow yourself to Hate Islam so openly - when this story of the Sacrificial Lamb belongs to all 3 religions -- I have yet to see Judaism and Christianity being hated so openly. In America we don't do that, and for good reason. Cherry picking bigotry, is hatred of the worst order. That's my "point" my good sir, or madam.

Yeah all 3 are the problem

One is a copy of another with some "regional flavors of the time" added.

What's your point?

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IGNORANCE

The Sacrifical Lamb is rooted in Abraham's story - read the Jewish and Christian bible. Islam is celebrating the "Sacrifice" of the lamb from the same story. Ignorance is ugly. Check out European Art on the Sacrificed Lamb. 

Point a finger at all 3 religions, or get some education. 

Ao, I agree

I said in Fred's blog yesterday that years ago, the Saudi government rejected suggestions by the international community to store the sacrificed meat (during aid-e ghorbaan) in cold warehouses so it could be shipped to the needy. I am not sure if that is still the case. I'll ask if I remember...... 

Indeed Islam is very resistant to change and reform, just look at the islamist occupiers in our ancestral land. Does anyone in their right mind believe that these people are reformable?

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COP Jaan

The problem with Islam is its aboslute resistance to reform.  And I mean it when I say absolute.  Why can't the animal sacrifice ritual be reformed into some sort of a charity donation.  Islam actually has one of the most progressive chraitable giving demands - khoms and zakat--which its followers rarely follow.  Why can't they replace this mass killing of animals with another charity rule? Other religions have gotten away from animal sacrifice.  Why can't Islam?  

Shouldn't they at least consider the environmental benefits of getting rid of this huge animal farming demand in the age of global warming?   

AO jaan

All religions originated from that little corner of the world. Islam is having an impossible time getting out of the hellhole it originated from.

Hey....look who's back. How was the time off? Hope it was with "benefits".... 

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And this is how civilized people do it

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