Posts Tagged ‘Hussein’
In photos: Ashoura Day in Nabatiyeh, Lebanon
IN photos: Lebanon Ashoura (Ashura) Day. It’s the day when Shiite Lebanese remember the 680 A.D. battle in which their saint and grandson of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad, Hussein, was killed by rivals cementing the split in Islam between Shiites and Sunnis. There will be blood…
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