PETA removes hoardings appealing to stop goat slaughter ahead of Bakri Eid after Islamic clerics object
Op IndiaA hoarding put up by Animal rights organisation – PETA with a photograph of a goat, urging people not to slaughter it, was removed in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh after Islamic clerics objected to such hoardings. According to the reports, the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animal had put up a hoarding in Qaiserbagh, which displayed a huge picture of a goat and read – “Mai Jeev Hoon, Maans Nahi. Islamic clerics outrage over PETA’s hoardings, files complaint Maulana Khalid Rashid Firangi Mahali, President of the Islamic Centre of India, had even complained to the Lucknow Police Commissioner demanding the removal of PETA’s hoarding. Few other Islamic clerics had also objected to the hoardings, saying they have been put up to “spoil the law and order situation in the state capital ahead of the festival of Eid-Ul-Azha.” Following the outrage, the PETA hoardings put up in Lucknow have been removed.
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