The other Ashura
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It feels more like Good Friday than Christmas in Baghdad. Today is Ashura, the solemnest and most sorrowful festival for Shia Muslims. It marks the death – the martyrdom, as they say – of Imam Hossein, grandson of Mohammad and rightful leader of Muslims according to the Shia. He was slain near the Iraqi city of Kerbala by the Caliph Yazid in 680BCE.
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