In our nagar, the Muslim-nagar, we were fortunate to experience the baptism of a boy and a girl. In the Muslim culture when a boy is being baptized, two goats are being sacrificed and for a girl, one goat. So in total three were sacrificed that day. The father of the boy explained to as the procedure of the sacrifice, the goat is being sacrificed according to ‘Hallal’. Which means that they cut the goats throat and let the blood flow out of it, so that the animal is clean. Which is different from ‘Hamar’ which means unclean.
After this explanation we joined the festivities and we got to ate the goat who had been sacrificed the same morning (and it tasted excellent :D)
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