From Blood Feud: The Shia holiday of Ashura, which celebrates the martyrdom of the Imam Hussein at Karbala in 680 CE, generates an endless supply of gruesome images: thousands of enraged young men slicing their foreheads with swords, beating themselves with chains, and screaming their allegiance to Allah in the streets of Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Pakistan, and across the Muslim world – scenes...
Never Too Young to Bleed
From FrontPage via FactsOfIsrael.com: This week many Muslims around the world celebrated the holiday of Ashoura. I have found a page, Ashoura in Lebanon, that explains what this barbaric ritual is all about: The observance of Ashoura is one of the most important events in the Shia calender. Ashoura marks the anniversary of the martyrdom of Husayn, grandson of the Prophet Mohammad, in what is now...