Idul Adha

This is a festival of sharing. On this day those who are capable will either buy a goat or a cow. Sometimes people will get together and all chip in for one. Then they will butcher the animal and divide the/their share of the meat as follows. One third for the poor. One third for their friends. One third for themselves. It is a very beautiful celebration that reminds those who partake to never forget about those around them.

Now here is the not so beautiful part. The method of killing the livestock is as follows: tie it up, slit its throat, wait for it to bleed to death. Blood will spray out at first (complete with that "psssssss" sound effect), then procede to start cascading out. Then towards the end, yellow bile will start to eject itself out. The worst part of all is the animal violently thrashing around 5-10 seconds after the blood has stopped flowing.

My headmaster says that the method of killing is rather barbaric, but they don't have any other way, seeing how the only tools they have available to them are kitchen knives. I don't know much about killing, but lord knows there has got to be a better way.

So yes, there is much sharing and even relieving of suffering, but it comes at the price of more suffering. Will this be one of the traditions that changes to keep up with modern ways of thought. Probably not. But for once in my life, I wish that fate upon a tradition.