More Ashura

Kind of like a renaissance fair only with knives, whips and chains.

From Reuters:

A road leading to a golden domed Mosque at the north Baghdad shrine, scene of the bloody bomb attack Sunday, was again spattered with blood -- but this time it streamed from pilgrims cutting gashes in their heads: a traditional rite of mourning.

Thousands chanted "Haider, Haider" another name for Imam Ali, Imam Hussein's father, to commemorate the slaying of his son in the 7th century battle of Kerbala.

Groups of men, some riding horses, dressed up in medieval military outfits with spiked helmets and chainmail to re-enact the battle between followers of Hussein and his enemy Yazid. Others waved green and red flags. Women wailed.

Huge vats of stew steamed over wood fires on the roadside and a canal was died red to symbolize Hussein's blood.

 

Comments

[janice]

Sick bunch the ummah is.....

[Dinah Lord]

I would go so far as to say "sick phuks"

(And I don't throw that phrase around lightly.)