Animal sacrifice has turned up in almost all religion/cultures be it greeks, hebrews or romans; or islam, christianity, judaism or hinduism. islams do A LOT of sacrifices during Eid--their major festival. sacrificing animals to appease god(s) is a very common practice among islamics. although sacrifices used to be an inherent part of the christian culture during medieval times, gospels being the very proof of it, they seem to have banished the tradition while armenian apostolic church among contemporarty christian churches STILL DO practice animal sacrificing. Jewish are also no exception. fact of the matter, there are quite a few kinds of sacrifices ,viz. guilt-offering, peace-offering, sin-offering and the likes, what are commonly known by a single terminology: 'korbanot' the points i am trying to make here: 1) the fact that hinduism allows practicing sacrifices, doesn't make it irrational or stupid among other religions, as some of the readers, who posted comments on this particular incident, have pointed out. i am not at all a sincere follower let alone a hard-liner when it comes to religion/culture, but i would like all other religion followers to do some introspection before accusing blatantly and harshly on hinduism for this. 2) although i, myself, strongly discourage people who practice animal-sacrifice, i feel that this news has been mis-interpreted and to some extent-blown out of proportion- for reasons i already mentioned in my earlier posts. 3) the real question, in my honest opinion, which demands more attention and a need to be addressed is: should animal be killed in the first place for human self-motives--eating/sacrificing and all? it's a different issue which needs an explanation beyond self-righteous religious beliefs and hypocritical practice imposed by the culture. 3) let's not be manipulative and be a specimen of embarrassment among international communities for something which has very little adverse implication on human civilization. there are more important issues to be talked about and addressed. LooTe