11/8/11

I will probably be getting all my Islamic news from the Aljazeera English website because I find that the most reliable news source for anything happening in the Middle East. I found a news article about a bus in Egypt crashing. Tourists from Hungary were killed and injured. The bus driver lost control of the bus because it was going at a very high speed. "The accident happened on the first day of Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha, or Feast of the Sacrifice, when many Egyptians and tourists head to Red Sea resorts for vacation." I'm not sure what race/ethnicity the bus driver was but I'm sure it was an accident. I looked more into the holiday Eid al-Adah. The prophet Abraham was asked by God to give him his son. They sacrifice a cow or a ram and the meat is given away to others. "One-third is eaten by immediate family and relatives, one-third is given away to friends, and one-third is donated to the poor." my article about Eid al-Adha states. It is a happy time for Muslims. For many families it is one of the few times they get to have meat.