Comments on: Eid II

By: John, The Eye Opener

John, The Eye Opener — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 13:56:23 +0000

WTF. Aren’t today’s kids more educated and sensible.They are animal lovers. They are not idiot butchers who’ll continue to blindly follow this shameful barbaric inhumane ritual or crime called qurbani. They realise well that killing or finishing Allah’s another creation was never the intention of Holy Quran. If you have to sacrifice, then better sacrifice your own flesh or kids in the name of Allah. Why deprive other mothers of their progenies? The whole non-muslim world condenms this torturous religious act which has no logic or rationale other than satisfying your blood thirsty and hungry minds. Pure bullshit story is cited in support of this nonsense. If Allah can do the justice, the dying and suffering animals demand justice from Him.

By: farhad

farhad — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Eid Mubarik to you too … enjoy ur bakra ;)

hope all of us can share the blessings of Allah with those who are less fortunate.

n hey i jus luved this blog, kooooool. you are doing ur research in history but ur professional background seems to be in computers… wats the deal ?

By: s¬Ønee

s¬Ønee — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Khair Mubarik

By: Rehan

Rehan — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Hey salaam,

A belated Eid Mubarak to you! Great blog! Just found it but I’ll be sure to come back more now!

I as an American living currently in Islamabad wanted to comment on the Eid situation. I’ve seen that many of the upper “elitist” pakistani families believe that “throwing money at the problem” seems to be the solution, and should be the same one practiced in respect to the qurbaani. Maybe its just the pakistani youth’s apathy because they grow up around this and want to be different. In California, where I’m from, almost every Muslim family takes part in qurbaani every year on Big Eid, and although our white neighbors and co-workers sometimes stare and think we’re weird and different, by doing the qurbaani we’re establishing and maintaining our identity, our culture, and our religious traditions. Maybe the elitist families of Pakistan will also someday feel secure enough with themselves to be able to take part in the tradition of the “lowly common man” rather than simply rejecting an old tradition to feel superior and more educated.

By: Jamal

Jamal — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I am by no means an orthodox Muslim. In fact, it would be safe to say that I practice very little of the Islamic faith. But I, like Rehan who wrote the previous comment (he’s my roomate), am a Pakistani-American living in Islamabad, so I am able to witness the Eid festivities here firsthand. When I looked out on the street on Eid day, too many times I saw a fat old man in a blazer and pants standing over a lowly butcher-boy cutting up a goat for the fat man to distribute to his friends. After thinking about it for a while, and after reading various blogs written by Pakistani kids in Karachi, I’ve reached a conclusion. The youth of Pakistan, in recent years, has been exposed more to the West than ever before. Cable TV and cheap DVDs have made it possible for the average Pakistani kid to feel like a part of the Western world. This isn’t at all a bad thing, but I feel like it has progressed to a level that no one had initially suspected. You will be hard-pressed to find an average middle class teenager (whether Pakistan even has a middle class is a whole other argument) actually involved in any traditional, cultural, or religious cermonial activity on Eid day. Qurbaani is out of the question. MTV and American movies tell us it’s wrong to kill animals. It’s barbaric. It’s inhumane. But these same kids will then go out with their friends to the new Clifton McDonalds in Karachi and have fried beef to their hearts content. The prospects of maintaining a sense of identity and self-awareness have been pretty much depleted, simply because Paki kids have learned that it just “isn’t cool” anymore.