She said: “Slaughtering sacrifices is an unjustified ritual.” This caused anger in the Jordanian street. A member of the “Reform Committee” apologizes and explains what she said..
Once again, a member of the “Royal Committee for Reform,” Wafaa Al-Khadra, provided live ammunition of all sizes and types to “bomb” the huge committee that Jordanian public opinion began to pursue and chase on more than one front and in more than one link.
But this time, the leaders of the Islamic movement entered the line. The controversy erupted suddenly, as never before, on the background of a “legal issue” and not against any political background.
For a mysterious and unknown reason until the moment, Al-Khadra decided to “fatwa” in its way during the Eid al-Adha holiday regarding “slaughter and Eid sacrifices,” which sparked a stormy debate against itself and the committee and also against its president, Samir al-Rifai. It is difficult to expect it to remain within two days in the form of “a storm in a cup.”.
Al-Khadra published a tweet quoted from her, in which she said that “the slaughter of sheep is not justified” and that “Islam is innocent of this weather.”
These are unprecedented expressions that do not belong to the Jordanian society and provoked horizontal segments of society against the committee. The Islamic union activist Maisarah Malas suggested monitoring the “remote control of the reform committee” to see how he would act after Al-Khadra’s tweet.
The Royal Committee had entered a relative state of “recess” due to the Eid holiday and before it was accused of “sponsoring” the extremist and offensive opinions of secular activists of the Jordanian people.
The storm of criticism of al-Khadra continued, although, on Thursday afternoon, she was forced to issue a statement explaining and confirming that her statement regarding sacrifices was taken out of context, stressing that “Allah forbid that you question any religious ritual.”
Al-Khadra said in her statement: “Allah forbid that any of us should question the importance of these rituals and the noble goals that they achieve, religiously out of duty and lessons learned, and socially out of solidarity.”
It should be noted that any belittling or denial of one of the laws of Allah and of what is known in the religion by necessity, such as sacrifices and holidays, is a departure from Islam, and the one who says it must immediately return to Islam by pronouncing the two testimonies.
