[Campion]

Only Shiites do the Ashura thing -- it mourns the Shiite military defeat that led to the Shiite-Sunni split.

Pres--ent Obola is a Sunni. (The majority of Indonesians are, too.)

[Paine in the Neck]

...it mourns the Shiite military defeat that led to the Shiite-Sunni split.

More specifically, the martyrdom of Hussein (mmm, mmm, mmm), grandson of Mohammed.