Questions veteran animal rights activist Syed Rizvi? Born in Pakistan and resident of the USA for many years, Syed challenges Muslims to think again about animal sacrifice on the New Age Islam Web site.
Today, if I say that I sacrificed an old sofa for a greater cause, I will be laughed at, since the sofa doesn’t mean much to me. However, this hypothetical act of mine is not much different from someone slitting the throat of a goat to please God and call it a sacrifice, since the person has had no attachment to the goat except a few bucks that he would soon forget.
