In reality beef ban is a small step towards an infinite and
loyal vote bank. Majority feels something great has happened for them.
How should the Muslims face it?
Islam does not compel its people to eat non-vegetarian food.
There is no loss to them when beef ban is established except that their menus
become smaller and a few traders and restaurants will face huge losses. A large
number of people outside Islam are the customers of these restaurants and they
will be at major loss as this is the only food that they were able to afford
and like both.
Bethinkers has already written in opposition to Beef Ban. Now we
would like to express the other side of the view also.
How can a Muslim react :
1) Welcome it. This ban should be welcomed by the Muslims.
Islam teaches a person extreme control over their own selves. A lot of the
Muslims who practice Islam know that a month Ramadan (most beautiful days of a
year) falls every Islamic year. In this time all Muslims must master the art of
control on desires. It includes all the desires such as eating, drinking
(water, juice etc.), sex, anger etc. In totality it a compulsory month to put a
reality check on human desires and a chance for the Muslims to train and become
more satisfied of all those things available to man. They learn the feelings of
those who are poor and have to go without food and water.
So for any Muslim, giving up one part of diet is NOT a problem
and should not be a problem.
2) Gift it : This sacrifice of the Muslims and others of a food that that they
dearly loved can be viewed as a gift to their fellow Hindu brothers and sisters
in the community. It can be done out of respect towards their neighbor’s
beliefs. If a change in menu can bring communities closer and into harmony then
it can be done !
3) India is a secular country. It is not a Muslim, Christian, Sikh or Hindu
state. This law is not secular in nature. But at the same time if a small sacrifice
of the Muslims, Christians and others can make a few Indians happy. Then WHY
NOT DO IT!
4) In religious terms Islam allows its people to follow the rule of land as
long as it does not violate the law of the supreme Master and owner of all :
Allah. Hence, adhering to #beefban to maintain
communal, society and national balance is not a problem for the Muslims but
rather a suggested good deed. In-fact their sacrifice is rewarded in terms of
deeds !!
MOST IMPORTANT POINTS ARE BELOW!
There are a few things that the Govt. must do at the same time.
1) There is no infrastructure available in India to stop these
animals from entering roads and other areas. At this time even when beef was
consumed at high rates large number of traffic jams and accidents resulting in
death or injury to the animal and the person involved is very common.
2) Cleanliness is a big issue. While old animals will be left to stray in open.
Their last few years are spent biting paper and plastics.
Their excrete is all over the place; clinging to shoes, car
wheels to bare feet of other poor people walking around. We never had
infrastructure or plan to manage it and now we have decided to raise the
population.
3) Milking the animal and then selling the animal for a price was a major
source of earning for farmers and other traders of meat. Please provide some
incentive to the farmers and traders whose decade old business will perish and
incentives to cattle breeders for not selling and taking care of the animals
which are not producing income and becoming costs.
4) Chaara or fodder is barely available at times and with rise in animal
population it will become more expensive. This expense will raise the price of
fodder for other animals such as Goat. Sheep/Goat breeders will face pressure
and prices will rise even further. At current level of price most mutton lovers
have shifted to chicken and a further rise will make it harder to sell goat for
meat.
5) Muslim festival of Eid Ul Adha will be very difficult to practice as most
people will not be in a position to buy sheep or goat for sacrifice due to the
extremely high prices. A festival should not be directly affected especially
considering that these are the only two major festivals of Muslim population
and are typically the only major festivals of "charity" in the world
and are non-polluting in nature. However, Islam does not burden a follower to
perform sacrifice if one can't do it due to financial or other reasons!
This will profit the Poultry industry but others (majorly
farmers) will face difficulty.
Other important bans which are actually needed:
Since, we have banned Beef just to make a certain group of
society happy now we have a chance to make the whole country a better place and
become world leaders of excellence and quality life.
The advantages of ban on Alcohol is unlimited!
1) Lower number of accidents.
2) Lower violence under influence cases.
3) Lower rape cases
4) Youth have more quality things to indulge into besides
getting drunk every time they have time.
5) Lower number of domestic violence cases.
6) Better family relations as “man of the house” is not drunk
all the time.
7) Reduction of population growth rate.
8) Reduction in number of abortions.
9) Reduction in crime rate.
10) Reduction in liver diseases.
11) Higher productivity of labors and workers.
12) Quality family life rather than one drunk man and struggling
family members.
The people in Alcohol factories need not go Jobless. They will
produce alcohol for cars which are alcohol driven (such cars are common in some
countries and it’s an easy modification).
13) This will save the country from buying oil from oil rich
countries. This will add to Indian savings and we can save in Billions of
Dollars in terms of taxes and debts by not importing so much of Oil. Means we
can afford better roads and better medical facilities.
14) Pollution reduction.
15) Oil prices will also become cheap.
16) Alcohol rich medicines will become almost free.
17) Deodorants and other such items which use alcohol base will
become cheaper to produce and can be exported.
18) Our young generation will grow with more time to do better
activities besides being drunk all the time. That would result in healthier and
more quality crowd over time.
19) Reduction is spread of STD
20) Our entire Nation can turn around to become the most
healthy, happy and progressing nation just by one BAN.
One can go on forever:
Ban Alcohol!!!!!
Besides, Alcohol is a banned element in all major religions
practiced in India including Hinduism.It’s time to ban something that will
progress the nation and NOT a few people in the nation. People like Mallaya do
not come to save all the broken families who have lost someone in an accident,
cancer or have experienced domestic violence due to addiction.Why should people
pay them and make them rich while the entire nation is drunk, confused and
sleeping on the streets.
Regards,
You loving neighborhood goat.
