During The Feast of Sacrifice that ended yesterday over 1,800 people injured themselves and three people died of heart failure in Turkey, while trying to butcher their animals. Many also had difficulties trying to catch the animals that fled for their lives. People injured themselves with knife wounds in the face, hands and feet, and received emergency treatment in numerous provinces throughout the country.
While the Islamist media reported on the benefits of sacrifice and the charitable donations of meat that fed a large number of poor, the mainstream Turkish media wrote about the 'bloody' and traumatic practice that was performed in front of frightened children; and by some inexperienced people, without proper tools, that ended up torturing the animals and hurting themselves.
Source: TDN, Hurriyet, Milliyet, Turkey, December 22-24, 2007
