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Shi’ite men, with blood spilling from a cut made in their scalp, shake their swards and chant praise for Imam Hussein in a procession for Ashoura, the holiest day for their religion at the holy Shi’ite Kadhimiya Mosque. Thousands marched through the streets as they demonstrate their self inflicted empathy for the pain suffered by Imam Hussein and 72 of his supporters when they were besieged for ten days and killed in a battle for the caliphate of the Muslim community outside of Karbala about 680 AD. |
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