Bangladeshi Hindu students given to eat beef , Headmaster arrested.

[Imran Khan]

i seriously don't get it.... some of my hindu friends eat beef and says it's okay and their is nothing in their religion that prohibits it... there are others who do not touch beef and i usually do not eat beef while out with them, out of respect.... ( note the beef eating friends are only two people... from kolkata, the rest of my friends are from different parts of northern india...) what's going on if someone could explain... (someone enlightened in hindu religion/ or is a hindu)

in india kerala is the state where beef is liberal hindu muslims eat it

 

[Corona]

i seriously don't get it.... some of my hindu friends eat beef and says it's okay and their is nothing in their religion that prohibits it... there are others who do not touch beef and i usually do not eat beef while out with them, out of respect.... ( note the beef eating friends are only two people... from kolkata, the rest of my friends are from different parts of northern india...) what's going on if someone could explain... (someone enlightened in hindu religion/ or is a hindu)

It's a regional and cultural variation in the religion as far as I know. Beef is part of South Indian cuisine. I've been served beef on religious festivals by my Hindu friends in Kerala.

 

[third eye]

i seriously don't get it.... some of my hindu friends eat beef and says it's okay and their is nothing in their religion that prohibits it... there are others who do not touch beef and i usually do not eat beef while out with them, out of respect.... ( note the beef eating friends are only two people... from kolkata, the rest of my friends are from different parts of northern india...) what's going on if someone could explain... (someone enlightened in hindu religion/ or is a hindu)

How difficult is it comprehend that it’s a case of wilfully feeding someone without informing him / her that the food served contains things objectionable in his religion ?

 

[TOTUU]

Hinduism ---- beef
Islam ---- pork
Christiansm ---- dog meat
Buddhism （in china） --all meat
Judaism ---- also have a lot Diet taboo
Anytime , anywhere , we must respect the local laws and taboos . Because these laws and taboos are related to local stability.

 

[Michael Corleone]

How difficult is it comprehend that it’s a case of wilfully feeding someone without informing him / her that the food served contains things objectionable in his religion ?

the beneficiary didn;t inquire either which i find odd.

 

[Super Falcon]

As a muslim it is duty for evry muslim to oppose such incidents by hand rather than words if minorities ger attacked by one of muslim it is against the islams teaching and its soul in our religion it is allowed to minorities to do what ever they want to live freely according to their religion but there are few bad eggs in all religions whom we should stop by hand but we have to see aftermath why this happened because in india it is on high and against muslims this might be reason but afain this is not a license to sct against any hindu in retalition

 

[prashantazazel]

i seriously don't get it.... some of my hindu friends eat beef and says it's okay and their is nothing in their religion that prohibits it... there are others who do not touch beef and i usually do not eat beef while out with them, out of respect.... ( note the beef eating friends are only two people... from kolkata, the rest of my friends are from different parts of northern india...) what's going on if someone could explain... (someone enlightened in hindu religion/ or is a hindu)

Why would you assume everyone would take their faith seriously?

 

[war&peace]

800 packets in just 8 kgs? woww..

it seems to me corruption issue

Yeah, it seems more of a corruption or lethargy issue than anything else.

 

[Mirzah]

Those poor Hindus have now become achoots, untouchables after eating beef

 

[Michael Corleone]

Why would you assume everyone would take their faith seriously?

It was not an assumption but a curious question as to the inconsistency I see...

 

[Nilgiri]

It was not an assumption but a curious question as to the inconsistency I see...

You seem to forget that Hinduism was already 1000-2000 or so years old when most other major religions today were founded...so much so that its original central dogma (Vedic) had already been through both extra-commentary (Upanishads) and re-interpretation at foundational level (Puranas)...not to mention the myriad of application in the different regional cultures of subcontinent....the scale and level of these simply is not found in the Abrahamic religions...especially given its oldest one (judaism) cultural/political hub was completely destroyed by Babylonians before it really had a chance for this process to take effect (following 2 later just based their dogma on it with little change)....and culturally that means a stasis to basically keep the memory of how it once was etc (rather than flourish, reinvigorate and adapt).

All 3 of these processes caused lot of churn and debate and add to that the simple passage of time....which creates downstream drift in almost any religion (even those with strong central tenets). So one that had an already decentralised system when these other religions were in their infancy will have much much more scale of that.

 

[Michael Corleone]

You seem to forget that Hinduism was already 1000-2000 or so years old when most other major religions today were founded...so much so that its original central dogma (Vedic) had already been through both extra-commentary (Upanishads) and re-interpretation at foundational level (Puranas)...not to mention the myriad of application in the different regional cultures of subcontinent....the scale and level of these simply is not found in the Abrahamic religions...especially given its oldest one (judaism) cultural/political hub was completely destroyed by Babylonians before it really had a chance for this process to take effect (following 2 later just based their dogma on it with little change)....and culturally that means a stasis to basically keep the memory of how it once was etc (rather than flourish, reinvigorate and adapt).

All 3 of these processes caused lot of churn and debate and add to that the simple passage of time....which creates downstream drift in almost any religion (even those with strong central tenets). So one that had an already decentralised system when these other religions were in their infancy will have much much more scale of that.

so would you say religion of hinduism is/ should adapt to eating beef!? or is that still a no- no based on fundamentals

 

[Nilgiri]

so would you say religion of hinduism is/ should adapt to eating beef!? or is that still a no- no based on fundamentals

There is bull sacrifice in Vedas (and also later texts) for example (though some commentators say it was more figurative and esoteric than literal)....but other instances cattle are called upon to be protected (cattle is wealth, the mother cow and her calf symbolise the godliness in all creation etc). This is key because major definition of what makes an orthodox school of thought in Hinduism (as opposed to hetereodx) is do you recognise the sanctity of Vedas as god given word (i.e do you accept it as Sruti, i.e heard from God).

So from my understanding, the decision must be left to individual...but society can make an argument to inform and persuade him of merits of either...and also enforce norms etc based on majority (for social stability).

The norms you see in force mostly come from the advent of Buddhism (which really undermined the earlier sacrifices, both animal and also fire altar...because Hindu priestly class evolved to the populist movement of Buddhism around that period)...and also solidified by the last puranic avatar (Krishna) who is cowherd.

But there is no dogma for or against at level seen with say pork in islam for example (which is expressly forbidden in a central god given tenet...or is it in Hadith? I forget....)....but rather you can say lot of "sunnah" arisen around beef taboo/cow slaughter in the 3rd/4th waves of what is Hindu culture more generally.

It all boils down to your understanding of what is Hindu religion vs Hindu culture. To me a religion is defined by a dogma....but how applicable is the core original dogma (Vedas + Upanishads) to todays Hindu evolution and norms?...it really depends. After all this is why Hindu itself has concept of kala (time) and the kaliyug (the removed, egotistic time of humankind)...i.e things get worse (entropy) the further removed from the original creation and highest period of man (when he was fresh, innocent, open slate, devoted to his creator and his creation etc) that we go.

 

[El Sidd]

Bangladesh is the hub of religious extremism in the region. Post 911 Pakistan had to expel alot of illegal Bangladeshis who were spreading Al Qaeda and ISIS mentality in different mosques throughout the country.

Fascism and religious extremism are state protected in Bangladesh.

 

[Anubis]

Bangladesh is the hub of religious extremism in the region. Post 911 Pakistan had to expel alot of illegal Bangladeshis who were spreading Al Qaeda and ISIS mentality in different mosques throughout the country.

Fascism and religious extremism are state protected in Bangladesh.

Yes...Abbotabad is in the outskirts of Noakhali where we hid Bin Laden and don't forget how we trained the Taliban in Cox's Bazar.