Anyone who says that Muslims are not religious fanatics AND completely insane must either be crazy or in deep denial about his or her faith.
Read the text that follows describing this most “enlightening” religious ritual… Brilliant, simply brilliant! And it is said that man is the most intelligent of all animal species on the planet. One has to wonder… TGO
The photographs below depict both a little boy and a man slashing their heads with knives during the Ashura procession in Baghdad’s Sadr City. Shi’ite mourners beat themselves during Ashura with steel-tipped flails or slash their bodies with knives to mark the death anniversary of Imam Hussein, a grandson of the Prophet Mohammad, who was killed during a battle in A.D. 680 in Kerbala, a city in modern-day Iraq.
Refer to story below. Source: Associated Press
Photography: Reuters
BAGHDAD – A spate of bombings killed two Iraqi pilgrims Thursday as they headed to ceremonies to mark a Shiite Muslim day of mourning.
Police said four bombs hidden in trash cans killed two people in a procession and wounded six in the town of Dujail, 50 miles (80 kilometers) miles north of Baghdad. The casualties were confirmed by Dr. Munthir Hussein of the Hussein hospital in Dujail.
Two more bombs were discovered and disarmed before they exploded, said a local police official who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to brief the media.
Earlier, a roadside bomb wounded three pilgrims in the downtown Baghdad neighborhood of Karradah, police said.
Shiite pilgrims from across Iraq are headed to the holy Shiite city of Karbala for Ashoura, which marks the seventh century death of Imam Hussein in a killing that sealed Islam’s historic Sunni-Shiite split. More than 1 million Shiites are expected to converge on Karbala, south of Baghdad, for Ashoura’s peak on Friday.
Many of the pilgrims march on foot to Karbala, and are frequently targeted by Sunni insurgents who seek to re-ignite sectarian violence in Iraq.
In a separate attack, gunmen fatally shot a senior official in Iraq’s Education Ministry and his wife after blocking his car while they were driving in a Shiite neighborhood in eastern Baghdad, city police and morgue officials said.
