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To: ocsmatw

The bigger question would be whether the attack date is significant in Islam. Many are.

Ashura for the year 2017 is celebrated/ observed on Sunday, October 1.

Ashura falls on the 10th day of the 1st month of Muharram on the Islamic lunar calendar.
For Shia Muslims the day commemorates the death of Husayn ibn Ali and for Sunni Muslims the day relates to when Moses and his followers fled Egypt and were saved by God separating the Red Sea.

The Ashura massacre of March 2, 2004 in Iraq was a series of planned terrorist explosions that killed at least 178 and injured at least 500 Iraqi Shi’a Muslims commemorating the Day of Ashura.


252 posted on 10/07/2017 8:10:35 PM PDT by ocsmatw
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To: ocsmatw

So

Iran

No wonder this event is loco

Did Jarrett call it in?


253 posted on 10/07/2017 8:15:51 PM PDT by combat_boots (God bless Israel and all who protect and defend her! Merry Christmas! In God We Trust! 4c)
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