Sharing lentil soup during Eid

Happened to visit the blue mosque (viewable but working mosque so to speak) on the first day of the Eid festivities. I mingled with the crowd of men who were coming out after morning prayers. Was offered a cup of lentil soup to share with the worshippers. No hostility, quite accepting. Fascintating to see the large police pressence. Stopped and chatted to one of the polici about why. It was a religous festival, precautionary more than anything else. I'd forgotton about the bombings earlier in the year.