Blood Feud

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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 that perfectly encapsulate Western fears of militant Islam. While you won’t seeany self-flagellation at Hizbullah’s Ashura ceremonies, the movement has appropriated the ancient rite for its own political ends, and it is actually promoting a more dangerous

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Never Too Young to Bleed

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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 Kerbala, Iraq. The death of Husayn was the beginning of the Sunni/Shia split, which persists in Islam to this day. In the past, many Shia men have demonstrated their devotion to Husayn by letting

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