2:7 God; has sealed their hearts and their hearing, and over their eyes is a veil; and awesome suffering awaits them.
Anger over killing of sacred cow
The killing of a cow at a temple amounts to religious sacrilege
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Members of Britain’s largest Hindu temple have accused the RSPCA of killing a sacred cow while worshippers prayed.
Officials at Bhaktivedanta Manor in Watford, Hertfordshire, said the RSPCA put down the cow despite assuring them no immediate action would be taken.
Cows are sacred to Hindus so the killing of a cow at a temple is seen as religious sacrilege of the worst kind.
The RSPCA said it had made it clear it was being done on medical advice.
The Hindu community claimed they were assured on Wednesday by the RSPCA, police and Defra that no immediate action would be taken, because of the religious sensitivities.
‘Duplicitous behaviour’
Police “bundled away” monks as a vet administered the 13-year-old Belgian Blue and Jersey cross, named Gangotri, with a lethal injection in a barn at 0900 GMT, temple officials claim.
“This is shocking and duplicitous behaviour” said Gauri Das, the head of the Hindu community.
“We have been deceived by those who had given us their word.”
A temple spokesman said: “Police bundled away monks who were in attendance of the sick cow, and the head farmer was kept talking, while inside the barn a lethal injection was given to the cow.”
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Al-A’raf (The Heights)
وَلَقَدْ ذَرَأْنَا لِجَهَنَّمَ كَثِيرًا مِّنَ الْجِنِّ وَالإِنسِ لَهُمْ قُلُوبٌ لاَّ يَفْقَهُونَ بِهَا وَلَهُمْ أَعْيُنٌ لاَّ يُبْصِرُونَ بِهَا وَلَهُمْ آذَانٌ لاَّ يَسْمَعُونَ بِهَا أُوْلَـئِكَ كَالأَنْعَامِ بَلْ هُمْ أَضَلُّ أُوْلَـئِكَ هُمُ الْغَافِلُونَ (7:179)
7:179 And most certainly have We destined for hell many of the invisible beings and men who have hearts with which they fail to grasp the truth, and eyes with which they fail to see, and ears with which they fail to hear. They are like cattle -nay, they are even less conscious of the right way: it is they, they who are the [truly] heedless!
