Filipinos last Tuesday enjoyed an unexpected holiday few most probably knew what it was about. It was the day of Eid al-Adha, or the Feast of the Sacrifice, one of Islam’s major holidays.

It celebrates the willingness of the prophet Ibrahim to kill as sacrifice his son Isma’il, after Allah commanded him to do as an act of his submission to the Deity. Just as Ibrahim was about to slit his son’s throat, he magically finds instead a sacrificial ram prepared on the table, and he is ecstatic that his son will live.

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