Torturing animals is now permitted in South Brunswick? Maybe we should bring spears to the Dog Park...

this is a false holiday, everyone with any type of religious or even secular historical education knows that Abraham took his son Issac & put him on the altar to sacrifice as a test for his trust in the creator. Truth be known.

Holidays are supposed to be joyous times, but for animals, they are often the worst of times no matter what religion is celebrating the holiday. During the Muslim holy days of Eid al-Adha, millions of animals, including camels, lambs, goats, and cows, had their throats cut in memory of Abraham's sacrifice of a sheep.

Goats legs are tied up and their rear legs roped together so they can hardly stand, and their mouths are often tied shut. Surrounded by a throng of onlookers, the terrified animals are held down with ropes while someone plunges a knife into their throat. Braying and thrashing in pain, they slowly bleed to death.

Happy Holidays! How can the police and health department allow this torture in our town?

Fact check: Abraham's son whose sacrifice was deflected by the hand of God was Isaac, not Ishmael. Ishmael was the son Abraham's concubine Hagar, who, according to Biblical legend, was banished into the desert and became the father of the Arab peoples.

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How many of you people who are so "appalled" by this are meat eaters? Just because it's different than Judeo-Christian norms doesn't mean that it should be shunned or ridiculed. These folks aren't just killing the goats to kill them. They will eat them. And they'll probably eat more of the animal than you "normal" aka white people do when you eat a chicken or a steak.

Let me ask you all this...how would you classify having turkey at Thanksgiving, or a Christmas ham? You're sacrificing a bird to celebrate a day that the Puritans came to the New World to be able to practice freedom of religion. How bout that?

This should not be allowed, it sounds like torture, strange group of people

GEEEEZ! The democrats will do anything to try and win this election, huh?

Normal aka white people. DJ...you must be a racist

lol...not racist. just an observation. you won't see any of the numerous other minority groups in the area freaking out and calling people savages and "torturing" animals. it's just getting food. that's all it is. yet they'll eat a thanksgiving turkey. my bigger gripe is that people are so disconnected from where their food comes from that they can't or won't acknowledge or appreciate that they're eating animals.

All the so called people who took part in this should be put on a block and sacrificed. If they had some kind of permit the person who issued the permit can be sacrificed also.

Just a tip - next time start out by trying to sacrifice one of your sons and IF God intervenes then you can kill a defenseless animal who has NO IDEA why you are killing it! If it is meant to be God will let you know!

Americans are such Hippocrates. Thanksgiving millions of turkeys will be slaughter and stuffed, I mean prepared for a celebration. Hunters will take to the woods to slaughter their very own. Look you don't like the religion, fine, but no one has any right to condemn this practice when in a month we will be doing the same thing to a different animal.

You realize that a third of the meat is given to charity? This includes needy families and soup kitchens. It's 2012 guys - let's get educated.

Wow....what happened to all the comments? Yet the "white people" ugly racist comment is still posted????????

Standing face to face with a living animal and slitting it's throat is a violent act. So lets expose our families and our children to it. Maybe one day they'll grow up and move onto sacrificing people instead of animals. Ask Jeffrey Dahmer, it's not that big of a leap.

Thank you Dave!

Sophia if "Christians are savagely chopping up pigs" the police would be there arresting everyone publishing names, etc. Some religions get a pass no matter how horrible the acts the commit.

I can see from most of the responses that a lot of people do not believe in "freedom of religion". The people have a permit to do the sacrifices as their religious beliefs prescribe, wend of story.

So Ken you approve of Prayer in school?

Its sad to see so much of ignorance and hatred about a religion from people of a developed country.
People open ur minds n hearts and respect religions.

This is The United States Of America, We Do Not kill our animals for any Ritual They need to be stopped and arrested , Or deported from (OUR ) Country, STOP IT NOW, If they want to live in our Country, Some of our Rules Should APPLY ,THIS is no different than Michael Vick, And He was found Guilty and imprisioned Where are the Animal Activist in this Hanous doing

What? Do these butchers have a different set of scriptures? Abraham almost sacrificed Issac, not Ishmael.

"Animal sacrifice ritual," really thats the headline?

Wow! This is a poorly reported story, Davey James should be extremely ashamed of himself for writing it in such a biased manner. He is clearly trying to to raise hate towards Muslims. Why?

First lets realize that these goats exist on a farm solely so someone can buy and eat them. Second they arent being tortured, I'm pretty sure being chased around with a stick is commonly called herding. Finally, they are probably being killed and bled out using the same techniques as kosher animals, the way some religions believe God intended.

There are some really dumb people commenting here.

where are all the comments?

Perhaps it's me, but I don't see any difference in doing what they are doing and, as per tradition, giving the meat to poorer people, as the law dictates. We eat lamb on Easter, yet someone else slaughters it. What's the difference? At least they give the meat to the hungry. We just show down and ask for more mint jelly for our 'Pascal Lamb.' There are also laws, like in Judaism, on how an animal is to be sacrificed, in a way that causes the least amount of distress to the animal, unlike we, who buy meat, knowing the conditions of the slaughter houses throughout the USA, which we all know are terrible. So, a goat is killed and the meat is eaten. Is this different from killing a deer and eating it? If they had license to do so, for, as so many AMericans are screaming about these says, their right to religion, I see no problem in what they were/are doing. America needs to be a bit, including myself, as I am an American, a Roman Catholic American, introspective and begin to look at our own behaviors before seeking out others to condemn. Remember...'ye who hast not sinned, cast the first stone'...yet we Americans have no problem casting stones, and condemning others, while totally blowing off our own transgressions. Always looking for an out, we are, and it's not a pretty sight.

Thanks Turkey, er Tom. I'll be sure to come there with my friends so I can get first rate ignorance from a jerkie like you.

I am a Muslim and I was there today. We sacrifice to honor our Prophet Ibrahim's (Abraham) test by God to sacrifice his son Prophet Ismail (Ishmael). This is stated in our book the Quran (Koran), not the Bible. We are not violently tortuing the animals. In our law ( the Shariah) the animal can't see the knife and is killed quickly with one swipe of a knife. I know this because I did it and the animal died quickly. If you don't like Islam, then fine but that doesn't mean you can condemn our practices as cruel because yo guys do the same things to hunt by shooting and most if the time the animal survives and is feeling pain. So look at yourselves first b4 correcting us, because I know what we are doing as Muslims to please our God.

Davy -- I've met you before and you seem like a great reporter but the title of this article was not fair or great reporting at all! Please be careful with the words you choose -- it has a serious impact on people.