Egyptian actress Shereen Reda said in a December 22, 2017 interview on ON TV (Egypt) that the call the prayer in Egypt should be “unified” because the bellowing of the muezzin at the early hours of the morning scares children and negatively affects tourism. She also expressed criticism of the custom of slaughtering a sheep on Eid Al-Adha and the fact that children can see the blood, saying: “What kind of customs are these? And then we wonder why our children turn out to be violent.” She added that letting the children play with a sheep and then slaughtering it a few days later causes psychological harm to the children.