{"id":3598,"date":"2003-10-15T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-10-15T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/10\/15\/2003-10-15-rss-calls-for-end-to-animal-sacrifices\/"},"modified":"2003-10-15T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-10-15T12:00:00","slug":"2003-10-15-rss-calls-for-end-to-animal-sacrifices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/10\/15\/2003-10-15-rss-calls-for-end-to-animal-sacrifices\/","title":{"rendered":"RSS Calls for End to Animal Sacrifices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Agence France Presse<\/P><P>NEW DELHI, INDIA, October 11, 2003: The Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (&#8220;National Volunteer Corps&#8221;) have called for an end to the &#8220;barbaric practice&#8221; of animal sacrifice in India. The RSS pointed out in its newspaper &#8220;Organiser&#8221; that God did not need animal sacrifices to &#8220;bestow grace&#8221; on His devotees. &#8220;There is a great need to cleanse Hinduism. And the time is now,&#8221; said the newspaper. The Organiser praised Jayalalitha, the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, for ordering an end to animal sacrifice after police allegedly stood by at a Hindu temple in Tiruchirapalli district as 500 buffaloes were slaughtered. A deputy superintendent of police was suspended over the incident. A ban on animal sacrifice is already in force in most Indian states but police often turn a blind eye when animals are slaughtered at rural temples following local traditions. Last year, Nepal&#8217;s King Gyanendra infuriated animal rights activists when he offered buffalo, sheep, goat and ducks to be slaughtered at a temple dedicated to the Goddess Kamakhya during a visit to the northeastern Indian state of Assam.<BR><br \/>\n<\/P> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agence France PresseNEW DELHI, INDIA, October 11, 2003: The Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (&#8220;National Volunteer Corps&#8221;) have called for an end,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}