In India No law Can Be Made to Ban Cow-Slaughter
BEEF BAN: BOTH THE RULE OF LAW (CONSTITUTION) AND THE GOVERNMENT CULTURE DIFFER IN INDIA NOW! WHY?In India No law Can Be Made to Ban Cow-Slaughter
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HIGHLIGHTS:
What Mahatma Gandhi Said to Those Who Wanted Beef Banned in India:
1. “How can I force anyone not to slaughter cows unless he is himself so disposed? It is not as if there were only Hindus in the Indian Union. There are Muslims, Parsis, Christians and other religious groups here.”
2. It is not as if there were only Hindus in the Indian Union. There are Muslims, Parsis, Christians and other religious groups here.
3. The assumption of the Hindus that India now has become the land of the Hindus is erroneous. India belongs to all who live here.
4. If we stop cow slaughter by law here and the very reverse happens in Pakistan, what will be the result?
5. Supposing they say Hindus would not be allowed to visit temples because it was against Shariat to worship idols? I see God even in a stone but how do I harm others by this belief? If therefore I am stopped from visiting temples I would still visit them.
6. I have been long pledged to serve the cow but how can my religion also be the religion of the rest of the Indians? It will mean coercion against those Indians who are not Hindus.
7. In villages Hindus make bullocks carry huge burdens which almost crush the animals. Is it not cow-slaughter, albeit slowly carried out?
8. I again repeat that all the religions of India today are being put to the test. It has to be seen how the various religious groups such as the Sikhs, the Hindus, the Muslims and the Christians conduct themselves and how they carry on the affairs of India.
9. Pakistan may be said to belong to Muslims but the Indian Union belongs to all.
10. Besides some prosperous Hindus themselves encourage cow-slaughter. True, they do not do it with their own hands. But who sends all the cows to Australia and other countries where they are slaughtered and whence shoes manufactured from cow hide are sent back to India? I know an orthodox Vaishnava Hindu. He used to feed his children on beef soup. On my asking him why he did that he said there was no sin in consuming beef as medicine.
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Edited and Forwarded By:
 Balbir Singh Sooch-Sikh Vichar Manch