{"id":4305,"date":"2016-03-23T14:06:33","date_gmt":"2016-03-23T14:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalpress.hinduismnow.org?p=4302&preview_id=4302"},"modified":"2016-03-23T14:06:33","modified_gmt":"2016-03-23T14:06:33","slug":"cow-head-dumped-at-hindu-sanctuary-in-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=4305","title":{"rendered":"Cow head dumped at Hindu sanctuary in US | The Indian Express"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Express Times newspaper reported on Tuesday that Pennsylvania State Police are calling the incident which happened between Saturday night and Sunday morning \u201cethnic intimidation, criminal trespass and harassment.\u201d (Source: Google Maps)<\/span><\/p>\n

The severed head of cow has been placed at a Hindu cow sanctuary in Pennsylvania and the state police are investigating the crime as a case of \u201cethnic intimidation.\u201d<\/p>\n

The cow\u2019s head was dumped at over the weekend at the Lakshmi Cow Sanctuary in Monroe County, according to media reports.<\/p>\n

The Express Times newspaper reported on Tuesday that Pennsylvania State Police are calling the incident which happened between Saturday night and Sunday morning \u201cethnic intimidation, criminal trespass and harassment.\u201d<\/p>\n

State Trooper Carrie A Gula, who was quoted by the newspaper, said explaining the intimidation description, \u201cThe victim\u2019s religion is Hinduism. In this religion, the cow is (a) symbol of life and may never be killed.\u201d<\/p>\n

None of the 20 cows at the sanctuary were hurt, local TV station WNEP reported on its web site. The severed head was left where Sankar Sastri, who runs the sanctuary could find it, \u201cbut he\u2019s not letting this taint what the sanctuary is all about,\u201d reporter Jim Hamill said. \u201cNow the sanctuary has a chance to educate folks about Hindu beliefs in spite of a disturbing deed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sastri told the station, \u201cI hope this doesn\u2019t magnify anymore. I don\u2019t want to take it to the next side. I hope just a prank. They probably didn\u2019t realize. People are unaware of what we\u2019re about.\u201d Sastri would use the incident to inform the local people about Hinduism, Hamill said.<\/p>\n

The Express Times reported that the cow sanctuary was founded about 20 years ago by Sastri, a retired professor and dean at the New York City College of Technology, and relocated to the area around Jackson Township from another location in the state only about about a month ago.<\/p>\n

He told the newspaper\u2019s web site, lehighvalleylive.com, that finding the cow\u2019s head was like the scene from \u201cThe Godfather\u201d movie where a severed horse head is left on a man\u2019s bed as a warning from the mob boss. But \u201cthey didn\u2019t leave it in my bed.\u201d Sastri said.<\/p>\n

Rajan Zed, the president of the Nevada-based Universal Society of Hinduism, said that \u201cHindus are highly concerned\u201d over the incident and asked Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf and Monroe County Chairperson John R Moyer to reassure the community.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was shocking for the hard-working, harmonious and peaceful US Hindu community numbering about three million, who had made lot of contributions to the nation and society, to receive such signals of hatred and intimidation,\u201d he said in a statement.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Express Times newspaper reported on Tuesday that Pennsylvania State Police are calling the incident which happened between Saturday night and Sunday morning \u201cethnic intimidation, criminal trespass and harassment.\u201d (Source: Google Maps) The severed head of cow has been placed at a Hindu cow sanctuary in Pennsylvania and the state police are investigating the crime […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4305"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}