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The Cow Cannot and Must Not Be Turned Into an ‘Instrument of Conciliation’
To say, as a serving police officer has done in a recent op-ed, that the “self-preservation of Muslims” hinges on their ‘denunciation of cow slaughter” is akin to issuing an outright threat.
Cows at a garbage dump in Jaipur. Photo: Wikimedia Commons
The Hindu titled ‘Cow and Conciliation’, a serving Muslim Indian Police Service officer, Najmul Hoda, says that “a theological denunciation of cow slaughter is an imperative for peace and self-preservation of Muslims”.
His argument is wrong. It is also highly objectionable on several counts.
To say that the “self-preservation of Muslims” hinges on their “denunciation of cow slaughter” is akin to issuing an outright threat. It means that unless Muslims shun beef  and denounce cow slaughter from a theological perspective in order to propitiate the religious sentiments of Hind ....

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