ADU CITY (Maldives), Nov 9: In a major contrast to world's other Muslim nations, Maldives has passed its Eid-ul-Azha on Sunday without sacrificing (Korbani) a single animal as the country lack in live cattle, local people and official sources said, reports BSS.
Ameer said the moderate Maldives has a purely 100 percent Mulsim population and they were devoted to Muslim culture and practices as well, but it could not afford to sacrifice live animals as cattle were not reared in the island state, home to a total population of 400,000 over 1,100 small islands that together have a size of 300 square kilometers in the deep Indian Ocean. Out of total islands, only 198 are inhabited.
Source: The News Today.
November 17, 2011, 09:54 AM
Maldives and Korbani - 2011
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