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LAHORE, Feb 6 (OneWorld) - Donating skins of sacrificed animals for charity is big in Pakistan, where over three million animals were sacrificed during the Islamic festival of Eid, but jehadi groups are cornering a large number of the hides and selling them to bankroll the "holy war." Despite a ban on seeking donations for jehad, several organizations display banners and posters across the country, asking citizens to donate hides so that the "holy war" in Kashmir and Afghanis can continue. Many of the groups involved in the hides-for-money campaign are nongovernmental organizations and Islamic charities and at least two...

Monday, February 2, 2004 | Updated: 22:45 IST More than 400 hurt in Turkey while sacrificing cattle for Baqr'id Agence France-Presse Ankara, February 1 Some 429 people were treated across Turkey on Sunday for cuts and fractured limbs they suffered while trying to slaughter sheep and cows to mark Eid-ul-Azha, the Anatolia news agency reported. Several faithful rushed to hospitals with knife cuts to their hands after they took to slaughtering animals themselves rather than finding a butcher to do the job. Others came in with concussion and fractures to their arms and legs after they were kicked by panicked...

Last year, Adam Liban celebrated the Islamic holiday Eid ul-Adha by heading to the halal slaughterhouse in Sumner, picking out two lambs and paying someone to slit their throats. It was quick and easy, and it satisfied his duty as a Muslim. This year, he is panicking. The three-day holiday, which begins tomorrow, calls for Muslims to sacrifice an animal in honor of Abraham's willingness to sacrifice his son at God's command. In the past, many local Muslims went to Crescent Custom Meats, an old slaughterhouse on 23 gravelly acres, tucked near the mountains in rural Sumner. The facility is...

PARIS, 31 January 2004 — The Paris suburb of Evry, which has one of France’s largest Muslim populations, has decided to install video screens to enable the local faithful to watch some 3,300 sheep being slaughtered for Eid this year. The televised ritual slaughter which will take place in a large mobile abattoir is the idea of a local meat wholesaler. “If the idea succeeds this year then it’s likely to become a permanent fixture of Eids in future,” a local municipal spokesman said. Meanwhile, at Le Mans, west of Paris, the local authorities have decided to build a “hard”...

RINGGOLD, Va. - A ritual animal sacrifice is at the center of a property-line dispute between a Ringgold concrete company and a neighbor who practices the Ifa religion, a form of voodoo. Employees of the Rowland Concrete Co. arrived at work Monday to find a headless rooster hanging from a tree, just over the company’s property line. Osungbemi Olaseni, who has been feuding with the cement company over a property line since he and his family moved into their Wilkerson Road home in August, said he sacrificed the bird to Shango, the god of enemies, and was told by Shango...