OBIGOOD! no beef rendang for ahbangs @ commonwealth games

[BusNo64]

Jan 14, 2010
Hindu party wants beef ban

Rajnath Singh, a former president and senior member of the Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), has written to Games organisers to keep beef off the menu, local media said. -- PHOTO: AFP

NEW DELHI - INDIA'S leading opposition party wants a ban on beef at the Commonwealth Games later this year to strengthen the country's 'cultural values and age-old traditions'.

Rajnath Singh, a former president and senior member of the Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), has written to Games organisers to keep beef off the menu, local media said.

'Cow is considered sacred in India,' Singh wrote to Suresh Kalmadi, who heads the organising committee for the October 3-14 Games in New Delhi, DNA newspaper reported.

'The Commonwealth Games have become an important event where we should use every possible opportunity to highlight our cultural values and age-old traditions. By removing beef from the menu card, the organising committee would not only empathise with the popular sentiment, but also save the Games from agitations and other possible controversies.'

Most Hindus worship cows and do not eat beef. Several states also prohibit the slaughter of cows.

Some 6,000 competitors and 2,000 officials are expected for the Games, which feature 17 sports and 71 nations and territories of the former British Empire. -- AFP

 

[Sideswipe]

I don't eat beef, nobody can eat beef logic don't appeal to me...

 

[Glaringly]

Does our local Toaist, an offshoot from Hindu? I keep bumping into people that are Toaist and claims that they cannot eat beef?

If I look at Hong Kong and Taiwan that also practice Taoism, beef are eaten by almost everybody there!

 

[Jah_rastafar_I]

I don't eat beef, nobody can eat beef logic don't appeal to me...

kelings are like this. They demand everyone to follow them and they must always have their way.

 

[Ramseth]

Buddhism (not Taoism) is an offshoot from Hindusim.

Does our local Toaist, an offshoot from Hindu? I keep bumping into people that are Toaist and claims that they cannot eat beef?

If I look at Hong Kong and Taiwan that also practice Taoism, beef are eaten by almost everybody there!

 

[po2wq]

Does our local Toaist, an offshoot from Hindu? I keep bumping into people that are Toaist and claims that they cannot eat beef? ...

in taoism, can eat beef anot is according 2 ze deity ...

 

[Ramseth]

kelings are like this. They demand everyone to follow them and they must always have their way.

Americans and Europeans going to South Korea for Olympics 1988 and World Cup 2002 demanded that South Koreans stop eating dogs. Visitors imposing on hosts. I think India's case with beef is the hosts problem. One visit an Arab country and demand to be served pork?

 

[Glaringly]

Buddhism (not Taoism) is an offshoot from Hindusim.

Pardon me, I am religion less.

Roughly how many percent are Buddhist and Taoist in Singapore?

So, if what you are saying, we have much more Buddhist then Honkies and Taiwanese!

 

[Ramseth]

Many Chinese (in Singapore, HK, Taiwan and elsewhere) practice both Taoism and Buddhism side-by-side, just like many Japanese practice both Shinto and Buddhism side-by-side.

Pardon me, I am religion less.

Roughly how many percent are Buddhist and Taoist in Singapore?

So, if what you are saying, we have much more Buddhist then Honkies and Taiwanese!