After the row over students wearing Hijab in classrooms and banning Muslim traders in temple fairs, the public discourse is now on halal meat.
Halal meat adheres to the Islamic law, according to which slaughtering of animals or poultry involves killing through a cut windpipe.
While Sikh community prefers Jhatka meat, means swift, chopping the head of the animal in a single blow so that it dies instantly without much pain.
The leaders from some right wing groups and BJP functionaries including the party national general secretary CT Ravi have asked Hindus to ban the halal-cut meat in Karnataka.
It is an age-old practice of Muslims to adhere to halal food and one should not make an issue out of it for electoral gains. Is there a logic as an animal is slaughtered in both the cases?
The growing trend of right wing organisations taking the centre stage, rising communal tension in Karnataka should be addressed.
The miscreants who want to disturb the communal harmony. Banning is not a solution. All the religious people have the right to religious freedom including their diet.
