Word: ashuraã
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...popular photographs on Yahoo! early last week, and virtually all the major newspapers and television networks eagerly reported on the self-mutilation ritual before it was overshadowed by terror attacks in Karbala and Baghdad later that day. Though the coverage varied in style and tone, the skewed focus on Ashura??s violent rather than religious aspects seemed to reflect the media’s prejudices as much more than the holiday itself. “Look at these people,” the news reports seemed to say. “look at this evidence of their fanaticism...
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