Thank you.
I didn’t make it clear that it was the murder of Uthman that set up Ali’s part as the last of the Rashidun.
Since Ali, too was murdered, Hasan’s takeover/rulership and the further murder (’the martyr’) Hussein, in my opinion, still an issue of succession..’
As far as I’m concerned, succession has always been the actual foundation of Islamic black flags of ‘revolution.’
I know the wiki link didn’t go to anything specific about Hussein. I don’t like to think about him.
IIRC, Hasan & Hussein were brothers anyway. And here I thought fratricide was a no, no at these levels.....
Yep, Hassan & Hussein were brothers.
Apart from the last 3 caliphs who were murdered by other moslems. Most if not all shia imams were either beheaded or poisoned too (except Mahdi - yrs ago I heard from some moslem Iranians that Mahdi, once he appears, is scheduled to be killed as well). No wonder the tradition of spilling blood, death, destruction, misery & mourning is so strong in Islam in general. All one has to do is look at the Islamic lunar calendar in Iran.