RABBIS, MULLAHJIS, SWAMIS AND PROFESSOR LEE
In order to understand the story, you need to know what Rabbis, Mullahjis and Swamis stand for.
We call Rabbis as Jewish priests, Mullahjis as Muslim priests and Swamis as Hindu priests.
One day Professor Lee invited these people for dinner. He served many dishes ranging from pork, beef, mutton, fish, vegetables etc,.,..
Whilst they ate, a general commotion started. The Rabbis and the Mullahjis started quarreling with Prof because he served them pork and the Swamis started quarrelling with Prof because they got served beef.
The muslim and jewish religions do not permit eating pork and the hindu religion does not permit eating beef. Prof had to calm these folks down and explain to them about their unfounded superstitions.
He explained to them that many hundreds of years back most of the jewish and muslims lived in the Middle East. A disease caused mainly by a tapeworm called Teania Solium produced many deaths of human beings there who ate pork then..
The people then and there could not find how so many people died after eating pork. They did not know about Teania Solium that seemed as one of the major causes of a pork tapeworm disease. This disease killed people who ate pork as this tapeworm called Teania Solium bred in pigs.
So they started 'thinking' of pigs as dirty and harmful etc and eventually the Rabbis and the Mullahjis started saying that god did not permit them to eat pork. Like this the Muslim and the Jewish religions forbid their people from eating pork and the people stopped getting killed from this disease..
When Prof explained all this to the Rabbis and the Mullahjis, they calmed down. And finally even the agitated Swamis calmed down and stopped quarrelling about eating beef. Prof felt amazed at how these Swamis quietened down without even explaining to them about their unfounded superstitions.
Now the Swamis present knew about Teania Saginata which seemed as one of the main reasons for a beef tapeworm disease in India. They did not think of this till Prof explained about Teania Solium which produced the pork tapemworm disease.
And the Swamis said many hundreds of years back people in India did not die from drinking milk from the cows, but only died from eating beef. Due to the milk they drank they did not think of cows as bad, dirty etc,. Therefore, inorder for the people not to get this disease they decided to consider the cows as sacred so that they could drink its milk but not eat it's meat!.
After all of them understood about the tapeworm disease they all calmed down. Prof assured them that the meat he served got checked by the Food and Drug Adminstration and that it did not contain any tapeworms etc.
Once they all realised this, they danced and ate their meal and enjoyed the evening. They thanked Prof for enlightening them and ridding them off their superstitions.