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Sacrificial sheep row splits up Egyptian couple

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CAIRO, December 25 (RIA Novosti) - A sacrificial sheep, or rather the absence of a sacrificial sheep, has caused the break up of a 16-year-old marriage in Egypt, national media said on Tuesday.

The woman asked a Cairo court to give her a divorce after the husband refused to buy a sheep for the Islamic festival of Eid al-Adha.

The woman, who has only been named as Khadidji, married her husband, Mohamed, when he was poor. However, when his fortunes saw an upturn, and he began to make a better living, she asked him to buy a sacrificial sheep. Mohamed refused.

"I was unpleasantly surprised and very disappointed," said Khadidji.

Mohamed told the divorce hearing that he could afford to buy, "not only a sheep, but a whole cow, but his wife had not been polite enough," when she had made the request.

The court granted Khadidji a divorce.

Eid Al-Adha, also known as the Feast of Sacrifice, is a religious holiday celebrated by Muslims to mark the Prophet Ibrahim's readiness to sacrifice his son Ismail upon instructions from God. In Christianity Ibrahim is known as Abraham, and the son who is supposed to have been offered for sacrifice is Isaac, not Ismail.

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