Remembrance Day

"All that you tell me I will do." Today, of all days, is a day to talk of sacrifice and our response to it. But instead of the Battlefields of Vimy or Normandy or Kandahar, I want to begin with contemporary Istanbul where I spent five years. In Islam they still celebrate the almost sacrifice of Isaac by his father Abraham. Only a few years back, in every little neighbourhood, a calf would be purchased and then slaughtered on the street by, essentially, a bunch of yahoos. With some 15 million … [Read more...]