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Nepalese Muslims Celebrate Bakra Eid
By KTM Metro Reporter
November 7, 2011: the three-day Muslim festival called Bakra Eid has started today. The government of Nepal has granted a national holiday to celebrate this festival.
Bakra Eid is the second greatest festival of Muslims. They celebrate making animal sacrifices. In the Middle East, rich Muslims make offerings of large animals every day of the three-day festival but in Nepal, Muslims make offerings of small animals like goats.
Muslims make offerings of animal sacrifice every day. However, most of the Muslims make offerings of animal sacrifice on the first day of the Bakra Eid. The person in whose name the animal sacrifice is made remains fasting until the person receives the meat of the animal sacrificed for breaking fast.
The meat of animal sacrificed is divided into three portions. The first portion goes to the Mosque, the family keeps the second portion, and the third portion goes for the public distribution.
