Posted on 03/24/2002 8:55:17 AM PST by TheOtherOne
Shiites in Lebanon and Bahrain mark Ashoura with bloody marches
By BASSEM MROUE
12:30 ET
Associated Press Newswires
Copyright 2002. The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Thousands of Shiite Muslims staged religious marches on Sunday, some slashing their heads and beating their chest to mourn the 7th century death of one of their most revered saints, Imam Hussein.
Hussein was a grandson of Islam's prophet Muhammad killed in a battle in 680 A.D., the event which led to the split in Islam between Shiites and the majority Sunnis.
The commemorations, known as Ashoura, were held in southern Lebanon and Bahrain, while Iran, the world's largest Shiite nation, marks the occassion on Monday.
In Lebanon, more than 20,000 Shiites marched in the southern town of Nabatiyeh amid tight security because of concerns about violence between two Shiite rival groups, Hezbollah and Amal.
On Saturday, at least 15 people were wounded in a fist fight between the two groups. Two more demonstrations planned for Sunday were cancelled to prevent more trouble.
Hundreds of people slashed their heads as they marched through the streets of the town. Those who collapsed were rushed to hospitals while others were treated in tents set up by civil defense units.
Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, a senior Muslim cleric, urged fellow Shiites not to slash their heads, as is tradition, but to donate the blood to the Palestinians.
In Beirut, hundreds of thousands of Shiites, all clad in black, marked Ashoura with denunciation of Israel and the United States for its support for the Jewish state.
Waving Hezbollah and Palestinian flags, they chanted "Death to America" and "Death to Israel" as they marched in the streets and narrow alleyways of Beirut's southern suburbs, a Hezbollah stronghold.
Units of barefooted Hezbollah followers beat their chests in rhythm in a show of sorrow and pain over the death of Hussein.
A huge Hezbollah banner carried by the demonstrators read, "The Islamic nation will not abandon Palestine."
In Bahrain, where Shiites make a slight majority, religious songs eulogizing Hussein and his followers were broadcast on loudspeakers as thousands of men marched down the streets, beating their chests, heads and whipping their backs with chains.
Some bare-chested men revealed bruised and bleeding skin. A large sword-wielding crowd of white-clad mourners bled lightly from cuts on their shaven heads.
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Body piercing and tattooing are out in the Jewish law. Pierced ears for earrings are OK I guess....and only for the women.
Hi...Dennis and Everyone Who Loves and Supports ISRAEL,
Can you Imagine this HORRIFIC, DEMONIC display of SELF MUTILATION, and a so-called "Mother" does this to her own Baby...the poor kid looks absolutely Terrified!
Where the hell is the: UN and Child Protective Services?
Why aren't Hillzebeast Clintoon and her Crooked Cronies, the Secular Humanist - Socialists...aka: Liberal - Limo Democrats SCREAMING for an end to this?!
NO Jew on the Face of this Earth would ever do anything like this to themselves or to their Children.
ISLAM...The Religion of Peace and Love....NOT!!!
WAKE UP WASHINGTON DC...take a good, long hard Look at this so-called Religion of Peace and Love.
AND WHILE YOU ARE AT IT...STOP LYING TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE!!!
Here's the Quick CURE...NUKE THEM ONE AND ALL!
Hi...Dennis and Everyone Who Loves and Supports ISRAEL,
Can you Imagine this HORRIFIC, DEMONIC display of SELF MUTILATION, and a so-called "Mother" does this to her own Baby...the poor kid looks absolutely Terrified!
Where the hell is the: UN and Child Protective Services?
Why aren't Hillzebeast Clintoon and her Crooked Cronies, the Secular Humanist - Socialists...aka: Liberal - Limo Democrats SCREAMING for an end to this?!
NO Jew on the Face of this Earth would ever do anything like this to themselves or to their Children.
ISLAM...The Religion of Peace and Love....NOT!!!
WAKE UP WASHINGTON DC...take a good, long hard Look at this so-called Religion of Peace and Love.
AND WHILE YOU ARE AT IT...STOP LYING TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE!!!
Here's the Quick CURE...NUKE THEM ONE AND ALL!
What a bunch of imbeciles and lunatics. Syria is occupying Lebanon and their whining about Israel.
Tom Lehr,
"Masochism Tango"
These people are nuts. Frankly I don't care if a bunch of loony men whip themselves with knives and slash their heads open... but seeing the two pictures of the little children being cut open, that is child abuse!
The Left in America went bonkers when the Taliban blew up those ancient Hindu statues and over the repression of women, I wonder whether there will be any outcry over mutilating little children.
Flagellation has been in Christianity longer than Islam has been in existence. (Which does not justify the practice.)
I literally felt ill looking at all the photos on Yahoo. It is very disturbing that this is 'accepted' practice. Similar practice is going on in Afghanistan
Look at it again. Does it not make your flesh crawl? That photo should be one of those we post whenever one of the Kaffiyeh Kommando Krew shows up here. I hope somebody captures it, for that purpose. Obviously, the New York Times, Washington Post, and ABCNBCCBSCNNMSNBC will never show it in a million years.
Hah! And they're, we're constantly told, controlled by those EEEEVVVILL JOOOS. LOL!
It should be posted often, and its photographer should recieve a Pulitzer Prize.
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