We treat the cow as our mother

By Asgari Begum (Guardian, 3 October 2015) {

Satish Singh, an activist with a Hindu spiritual foundation who had travelled from Delhi to “show solidarity”, said: “All Hindus are deploring this sad incident. Everyone agrees it should not have happened. But this is a very sensitive matter. For Hindus the murder of a man is not so sensitive as the murder of a cow. We treat the cow as our mother,” he said.

Source: Inside the Indian village where a mob killed a man for eating beef }