Bakr-Id is on November 28th. The word bakr means a goat or sheep. Vast numbers of sheep, goats and camels are sacrificed all over the world. Camels are walked for a over thousand kilometres to die a slow, harrowing and painful death.

It is a re-enactment of Abraham’s slaughter of the ram in lieu of his son. When god gave Abraham permission to sacrifice a ram instead of his son, he did not ask Abraham to make it an annual ritual. Nor did Abraham do so.

Can something be done to stop it? Please write and sensitize local Muslims everywhere. We must stop this cruel practice.