First published at 13:11 UTC on April 23rd, 2024.
Coming to a town near you soon. A pity he didn't strike hard enough.
In Ashura "celebrations", which is practiced amongst the Shia Muslims in Iran in the bloodiest format, self-flaggelation is the pride of the rituals. The more blo…
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Coming to a town near you soon. A pity he didn't strike hard enough.
In Ashura "celebrations", which is practiced amongst the Shia Muslims in Iran in the bloodiest format, self-flaggelation is the pride of the rituals. The more blood they can extract from self-inflicted injuries, the more proud they are. Everything in Islam is about violence, hatred, blood, gore and death.
For Shia Muslims, Ashura is a day of mourning as they annually commemorate the death of Husayn ibn Ali, grandson of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and the third Shia imam. Husayn refused on moral grounds to pledge his allegiance to the Umayyad caliph Yazid ibn Mu'awiya (r. 680–683) and was subsequently killed, alongside most of his male relatives and his small retinue, by the Umayyad army in the Battle of Karbala on Ashura 61 AH (680 CE).
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