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To: Just_an_average_Joe

Aashura? Now you have my attention.

200 posted on 01/05/2009 5:36:34 PM PST by combat_boots ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act."Aldous Huxley)

To: combat_boots

What’s “Aashura”?

209 posted on 01/05/2009 5:41:58 PM PST by sneakers

To: combat_boots

Shahssee, wa’assee.

Aashura is replete with men self-flaggellating and cutting their heads. Ali is considered a martyr.

Find some images. Read an article about it. To Western eyes, it’s beyond odd.

211 posted on 01/05/2009 5:42:34 PM PST by combat_boots ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act."Aldous Huxley)

To: combat_boots

In Sanskrit, “asura” means “demon” or literally, “ungodly”. Interesting.

269 posted on 01/05/2009 7:53:31 PM PST by little jeremiah (Leave illusion, come to the truth. Leave the darkness, come to the light.)

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