Bengal's Beef Ban: A Powder Keg for Communal Tensions The recent controversy over cow slaughter in West Bengal has ignited a powder keg of communal tensions that threaten to destabilize the state's fragile social fabric.
At its center is Humayun Kabir, chief of the All India Ulema Persecution (AJUP) and a West Bengal MLA, who insists on continuing ritual animal sacrifice despite the state government's restrictions on animal slaughter.
Kabir bases his stance on his assertion that the Quran mandates qurbani – the ritual sacrifice of animals.