There Will Be Blood: The religious and political significance of Ashura
Posted: January 3, 2010.
Print: Foreign Policy
excerpt:

There will be blood: Shiite men often draw their own blood by cutting their scalp with the flat end of a sword or knife. In this picture, a procession of Shiite mourners walks through the streets of the Baghdad neighborhood of Sadr City on Dec. 26.








Don’t know about anyone else but this scares the shiite out of me! How are we supposed to spread logic and reason in the face of people like this? So many people in this world are taught to believe that they are “bad” and that they are “sinful” and need to grovel at the feet of a god. How do you convince people like this that they are wrong?
Scarry. Just plain scarry.
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