Re: BJP plan to set life term for cow killing
The end-point is that killing or slaughtering a cow is not allowed in Hinduism.
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Was this ban on pig slaughter (in India) imposed because of Muslim beliefs?
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Yes.
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Did anyone oppose? (i.e: is this something which hindus had to give up?)
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No.
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Going by your logic, you seem to be saying: because we (hindus) did something for the Muslim belief (minority), we have the right to impose our religious practices on the minorities, by banning something which is prohibited in our religion, but not in the religion of the others. In that case, if you ban cow slaughtering, then India should not be called secular.
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Your argument is based on the assumption that only Hindus make the laws in India. So if the majority Hindus allowed Muslim appeasement, so they should force Muslims not to eat beef.
My logic was that in a secular if Muslim beliefs can be taken care of, then so too can Hindu beliefs.
I was told that Egypt and Turkey (being secular) did not ban pork, so they are being secular and so India must also not ban beef.
I raised the counter argument that in secular nations, ALL communities get a fair deal. So if Hindus are prohibited from killing pigs illegally and in prohibited ways, then so too should Muslims be prohibited from killing cows and distributing beef.
And these laws are made by elected reps of the Indian public, All India Muslim Personal Law Board, constitutional exprts et al. not just by Hindus.
Anyways in democracy, majority rules until the fundamental rights of citizens arent violated. So in catholic USA, same-gender marriages arent allowed and denying the Holocaust in Europe is a punishable crime (free-speech goes out of the window).
Anyway India is quite secular. M F Hussain paints nude paintings of Hindu goddesses and sells those paintings for a fortune and roams freely. Zakir Naik also is allowed to preach Islam publicly in India (he even apperas on tv interviews). And Muslims get Hajj subsidy from the gov but Hindus dont get a penny for Amarnath yatra !!!