Lucknow | Uttar Pradesh Shia Waqf Board chairman Waseem Rizvi on Tuesday sparked controversy when he said that Muslims should start eating beef.
“Muslims should stop eating beef. The killing of cows should stop. You cannot stop mob lynching, security cannot be deployed everywhere. So a law should be made awarding strict punishment to those killing cows,” Rizvi told media.
Commenting on the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) leader Indresh Kumar statement on cow killing, Rizvi said that someone with the status of a mother should not be killed. “I think Indresh Kumar’s statement has a point. Religious sentiments should not be hurt. You can’t kill someone who is given the status of a mother by a community,” he added.
Earlier the RSS leader Indresh Kumar while responding to the increasing cases of mob lynching said, “If cow-killing is stopped then mob lynchings will also automatically end. And the violence in any form practiced by any person belonging to any caste, sex, religion is a deplorable act. In India, there is no such belief which okays cow slaughtering for religious practices.”
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