{"id":3756,"date":"2014-08-18T05:40:31","date_gmt":"2014-08-18T05:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=3756"},"modified":"2014-08-18T05:40:31","modified_gmt":"2014-08-18T05:40:31","slug":"india-muslims-attacked-for-selling-meat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2014\/08\/18\/3756\/","title":{"rendered":"India Muslims Attacked for Selling Meat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/stories\/news3\/indiaMuslims-Attacked-for-Selling-Meat.jpg\" border=\"0\" style=\"float: right; margin: 5px;\" \/>A Hindu mob has attacked Muslim shop owners in Gurgaon village in the north Indian state of Haryana and ransacked their stores after accusing them of selling beef meat, forcing dozens of Muslim families to flee the Hindu-majority village.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cWhen I tried to reason with them and showed them the receipts to prove it was buffalo meat and not beef, they started raining blows on us,&#8221; Mohammad Israr, 25, a Muslim who runs a meat shop in Gurgaon village, told The Hindu.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;They punched me in the chest, abdomen and head. Aftab (his 40-year-old friend) was also hit on the head and sustained injuries,\u201d Israr recalled from his bed at the Civil Hospital.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Clashes started last Thursday, August 14, when dozens of Hindus attacked a meat shop run by two Muslims, using sticks, after accusing them of selling beef.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">They also submerged the meat with acid. \u201cThe meat was worth over Rs.10,000,\u201d lamented Israr.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Earlier this month, several Muslim families were forced to flee the village to their original neighborhood in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh after they were being beaten up and their shops were ransacked by Hindus.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">According to eyewitnesses, traffic police didn\u2019t intervene to end the attack and help Muslims.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">However, samples of meat were sent to the lab for examinations to verify whether it is beef or not.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Hindus believe that the cow is sacred, and many Hindus worship the cow.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">According the Israr, this was the first communal attack that he faced during his seven-year-career in the village.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The concept of halal, &#8212; meaning permissible in Arabic &#8212; has traditionally been applied to food.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Muslims should only eat meat from livestock slaughtered by a sharp knife from their necks, and the name of Allah, the Arabic word for God, must be mentioned.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Islam provides details about avoiding any unnecessary pain.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Muslims in India constitute 14 percent population of the country.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Many Muslims fear that the new leader, Narendra Modi, could end several schemes meant for minority community launched by the Congress government.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Source: <em><strong>OnIslam<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Hindu mob has attacked Muslim shop owners in Gurgaon village in the north Indian state of Haryana and ransacked their stores after accusing them of selling beef meat, forcing dozens of Muslim families to flee the Hindu-majority village.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c102-muslim-minorities"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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