Yes, Ishmael - Muslims believe that it was Ishmael rather than Isaac whom Ibrahim was told to sacrifice, something about Ishmael being older than Issac in the book of Genesis.
Honestly, I'm not too sure of all of the specifics - in fact, up until I heard this I didn't even know that Phil Collins was in the Bible.
(Ba-dum-dum!)
But seriously folks, I can't tell you how close I came to buying the Eid stamp to mail my holiday cards this year. Sadly, I'm not sending anyone actual Eid cards - and even if I was, I wouldn't be sending them domestically, all of my Muslim buddies are in the Middle East. (Imagine that!)
So I didn't buy them. But I came dang close.
Does anyone else, besides the philatelist in me, think it's crummy that the USPS keeps issuing the same Eid stamp, while Christmas, Hanukkah and even freakin' Kwanzaa all get new stamps each year?
Anyway, happy Eid - or Eid Mubarak!