Lebanese Shiites March in Dahiyeh to Mark Ashura amid Tight Security
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
Tens of thousands of Lebanese Shiites are marching in a Hizbullah stronghold in southern Beirut to mark one of their sect's most important religious occasions, the Ashura.
Thursday's massive ceremony is being held amid tight security, including a ban on vehicles in the area, following huge bombings last summer that killed and wounded dozens of people.
The Shiites are observing the Ashura, the annual commemoration of the 7th-century death of Imam Hussein, the Prophet Muhammad's grandson.
Hizbullah's leader sayyed Hassan Nasrallah made rare public appearances on Wednesday in southern Beirut, urging followers to participate in the Ashura despite what he described as "security threats."
He also appeared in public on Thursday to commemorate Ashura.
14 November 2013, 13:14
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When I used to live in Beirut, it was during Achoura my family and I wouldn't dare go out.... And that was before they started committing atrocities in Syria....
14 November 2013, 13:13
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Shiites and their invented holy festivals and rituals. Declare shiaism a seperate religion once and for all officially.
14 November 2013, 13:27
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Peace, I am sorry that we have to read such moronic and retarded statements. Iran as a nation started to follow Imam Ali's school and his descendants way after the head of Imam Hussein was in Damascus between the hands of your ancestors.
14 November 2013, 16:33
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Peace, Hussein's head was between the hands of your ancestors in Damascus. Long after that, Shism reached Iran. So perhaps you could refrain from making moronic comments such as that.
14 November 2013, 16:37
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Basita, maybe shia is not your understanding of islam, but most likely it is their understanding of it. Taking advantage entitles getting something in return for mourning ? What is it exactly , perhaps you mean your version of islam's suicide bombers that blow them up while mourning?
my questions are rhetorical, don't waste your time.
14 November 2013, 17:50
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"It's about what God says and what his Prophet says"
Yes and everyone is supposed to take your word and the words of your mousnads for it, right ? This is not the right forum to discuss schools of islam and various islamic thoughts. But it is the right forum to tell you that you are in a no position to tell people who they are or they are not, who goes to heaven or hell. Anyhow.
14 November 2013, 16:44
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If everyone was like gabby14, life would be so much easier for average and above average people. Openly suggesting to commit a massacre in Dahieh is the most retarded thing an M14 could ever do in times like this.
14 November 2013, 17:54
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Hussein and his shia in iraq were betrayed by followers in iraq of Muawya your idol, whereas the followers of Ali all died in Kerbala. Check your history again buddy.
14 November 2013, 21:51
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Peace, mah it's 1435, america will be discovered by colombus in 57 years, we will soon witness the first pieces of renaissance culture, the borgias will go down!
14 November 2013, 22:59
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@peace Middle Ages are times when people used to make comments like yours and distort historical facts, and yet go unnoticed ...
@benzona you're so obsessed with western culture that I am almost inclined to invite you to visit Europe and get you out of your intellectual black hole
15 November 2013, 00:11
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i repeat: you hezbi lovers regress and are far far away from progress so are you...
all sniffing religion like cocaine, and you call it progress... LOL
14 November 2013, 19:40
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Gaby14, your interpretation of "their prophet" must be your idol moawiya (and his descendants) or his lover iben taymiya or the great loser but so called reformer Mohamad ibn abdelwahab. Because you would rather cut other peoples' necks.
14 November 2013, 21:13
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who cares? instead of celebrating death you d better celebrate life!! ah! those extremists!
14 November 2013, 23:07
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@benzona. Did I offend the little kiddo who is scared of dahieh monsters
14 November 2013, 23:15
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@basita
Sorry dude, I don't discuss religion , there are places from this. You can join them and make the case for abusufyan, his wife, and his sons and pray day and night that you'll join them in the afterlife. And if you want to fast fwrd a little, I recommend you go join the rebels in Syria.
15 November 2013, 00:59
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It is not Duaa to Ali you fraud. It is a wassila through Ali. It means they ask the good guys to help them in their cause. Not only Shia believe in this but a large number of non Wahabi Sunnis.
You want to debate this go there.
http://www.al-islam.org/new-analysis-wahhabi-doctrines-muhammad-husayn-ibrahimi/tawassul-resorting-inter-mediation-death-and
