This might sound weird–or worse. It was a reaction to a weekend headline: “Sacrificial cow bolts, killing Palestinian man.” That reaction: less than sympathetic.
The cow was about to be slaughtered because such an act is a traditional part of the Eid al-Adha holiday. I find such “celebrations” abhorrent. If that’s intolerant or insensitive or ethno-centric or anti-Muslim, too bad. I’m neither old school nor Old Testament on this one. Shouldn’t religions be above ritualistic butcherings of innocent animals? If they’re not, stuff sometimes happens. Call it poetic justice.