Your Humble Blogger was listening to NPR’s All Thing Considered today and found one of the stories fascinating:
Turkish Eid Holiday Gets Modern Feel
This week, Turkey celebrates Kurban Bayram. The Muslim holiday normally features people buying rams and other livestock, which is then slaughtered and distributed to the poor. But with some urban-living Turks finding blood and gore disturbing, a Bayram website—which accepts credit cards—has emerged.
There were several interesting things to think about: religious ritual charity, the odd situation of Muslim Secular Asian European Ancient Modern Istanbul (Not Constantinople), the relationship of people to meat, the story of the Binding of Isaac (or Ishmael, depending). Nothing really formed as a note, but I’m still musing.
Redintegro Iraq,
-Vardibidian.