Have A Happy "Bloody" Eid

Yesterday, on the 28th of November 2009, was the Muslim festival of Eid-Ul-Adha. Its a festival celebrated after performing the Hajj where you have to perform a sacrifice of an animal (preferably a goat). So, living in a part of Delhi where the maximum population is Muslim, you get to see things on this day that could literally send chills down your spine. Now, I'm sure you people are asking yourself "what could actually be so disturbing on such a festive day?". Well, I happen to have the answer to that. Let me divide this narration into 2 parts. Part 1 - consisting of the day before Eid and Part 2 - consisting of the actual day of Eid. Why? Because, its just more dramatic. Haha.

Part 1 - The Day Before Eid
Imagine this in slow-motion. Its a bright sunny day, and the kids are about on the street playing and there are "goats" everywhere. The kids having fun with their goats feeding them leaves and petting them and everyone is having a gala of a time. You can hear the children laughing, the women chattering, the old reminiscing and the goats bleating. Its all very lovely, isn't it?

[Picture taken from abdusalaam.blogspot.com]

Part 2 - The Eid
Now imagine this (again in slow-motion). Its Eid day. People are dragging their goats to the butcher and the goats are crying out for help. People have open up temporary butcher shops on the roads, basements and in their front-lawns. The roads are bloody and the biblical line "and the rivers run red with blood" seems so appropriate at the moment (ofcourse, you can interchange "rivers" with "sewers" here). You've got goat stomachs, intestines and other internal crap lying on the road. Its a bloody mess.

[Picture taken from abdusalaam.blogspot.com]

How the indian muslims have turned a pious day like this into a bloody gore-fest, is beyond my comprehension. I've always thought Eid was supposed to be a happy day and people should be out about celebrating and having fun. But how can anyone have fun when you've turned the roads outside into a bloody massacre. I'm sure every goat in the world would be cursing Abraham at moment. The above picture is actually some person's front door. I'm surprised how people could be so inconsiderate as to not empathize that public slaughtering is unnerving for others. They don't even think about how unhygienic this is and it could lead to an epidemic.

Oh well, I guess that's all for ranting now. I know this isn't much of an ending to my post but it'll have to do till I improve my writing skills.