Posted on 09/10/2019 10:47:08 AM PDT by C19fan
Part of a walkway collapsed as tens of thousands of people celebrated Ashura on Tuesday, causing a stampede and killing at least 31 pilgrims on one of the most sacred religious holy days for the Shia sect, officials said.
Around 100 others were injured in the incident, which occurred toward the end of the Ashura procession, causing a panicked rush, according to two officials who spoke to The Associated Press from Kerbala.
Hundreds of thousands of people converge on the holy city, some 80 kilometers (50 miles) south of Baghdad, for the occasion every year.
The somber day of Ashura commemorates the killing of the Prophet Muhammad’s grandson, the Imam Hussein, by a rival Muslim faction in Kerbala in present day Iraq, in 680 AD Hussein and his descendants are seen by Shia as the rightful heirs to the prophet. Hussein’s killing has been attributed with cementing the schism between Shia and Sunni Islam.
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So, once a year in Asura, they slice each other’s skin and draw blood. Once a year in ramadamadindong they fast all day and rush out to kill innocents to celebrate it all.
Please give me one reason why they should be allowed in this country?
Freedom to practice religion is OK only if the law supersedes the stupid religion. Not what happens. muzzies are given the right to do whatever their ignorant religion tells them to do. NO, not all religions are the same. Some are horrible unnatural violent concoctions which should not be allowed in a civilized country.
The Death Cult doing death. In a cultic fashion. Again.
How can they tell which ones were injured in the stampede and which ones just bloodied in the Ashura ritual of blood letting?
Only 31? Damn sad . Better luck next year.
We never should have put one toe into the Mideast. The despots and dictators was the only way to keep stability and keep that Islamic cult in check.
All cultures are equal. Diversity is a wonderful thing.
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