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Related: About this forumIn small-town Virginia, Muslim residents face a crisis of sheep and zoning laws
WARRENTON, Va. It was the day before one of the biggest Muslim holidays of the year, and the Rababeh family was in a panic.
The family had ordered hundreds of sheep, goats and cows to slaughter for customers in observance of Eid al-Adha, a holiday that ran from Tuesday to Thursday commemorating the prophet Ibrahims willingness to sacrifice his son Ismail at Gods behest, and Gods ultimate decision to let Ibrahim slay a sheep instead.
But now the family was scrambling to avert a crisis. Local officials had declared a few days earlier that, this year, the Rababehs Lebanese Butchers Slaughterhouse would not be granted the special-event permit it was required to have to accommodate its hundreds of expected customers. And now the town had placed a police barricade out front to block customers from walking through the slaughterhouse doors.
These people are depending on me to deliver this once a year, said Samir Rababeh, who helps his father, business owner Kheder Rababeh, manage Lebanese Butchers. I dont know what to tell them.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/in-small-town-virginia-a-crisis-of-sheep-and-conflicting-narratives/2018/08/24/ff23f8fc-a4bc-11e8-8fac-12e98c13528d_story.html
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(81,861 posts)TexasTowelie
(112,252 posts)Nitram
(22,822 posts)Freedom to persecute those of non-christian religions. If they got their way, they'd start persecuting non-evangelical christians.
packman
(16,296 posts)and cutting beating hearts out of captive slaves.
Butchering animals by the hundreds or thousands because of a stone-age myth - screw that "freedom of religion" shit