Much more often than I'd like, I'm reminded of former Obama speechwriter Ben Rhodes' comment concerning most journalists, "they literally know nothing." I just came across another example of this to share with you.
Spiked's Brendan O'Neill writes an article entitled "The Return of Animal Sacrifice" to which RealClearPolicy provides a link. Apparently the people at Spiked don't know that it never went away.
The world's approximately 1.9 billion Muslims engage in it yearly, at a festival called Eid-al-Adha. Live sheep are procured and then slaughtered in a ritual called Qurban.
In Muslim countries sheep pens pop up on vacant lots like Christmas tree lots in the US. The DrsC happened to be in Senegal off a cruise ship during the lead up to Eid-al-Adha and saw plenty of temporary sheep vendors, in urban Dakar.
