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We neither condone nor draw judgement on this practice - as a documentary company, our role is not that of activism, but documentation and archiving. Please feel free to use this video as collateral to take proactive steps in a suitable direction, to moderate this practice or otherwise. The poor camel is foaming and frothing at the mouth, almost as if it knows the fate that awaits it... It bends its legs and sits down in submission, even crapping out its droppings in fear. Camels are sacrificed at Eid in many Islamic countries. Eid al-Adha, also called Feast of the Sacrifice, the Major Festival, the Greater Eid, Kurban Bayram, or Eid e Qurban, is the second of two religious holidays celebrated by Muslims worldwide each year. It honours the willingness of Abraham (Ibrahim) to sacrifice his
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