Shiites Mark Ashoura in Lebanon

06 July 2025, Lebanon, Beirut: Shiite mourners holding images of their assassinated leader Hassan Nasrallah flags of Iran and Palestine, at a mass rally commemorating Ashoura engage in a ritual of chest-beating to mark the killing of Prophet Muhammad's grandson, Hussein. This distinctive expression of grief, unique to Shiite tradition, stands in contrast to Muslim Sunni practices, which eschew such leer más acts of self-flagellation, Chest beating and covering themselves in mud, citing the Prophet Muhammad's injunction against the degradation of the human body. Photo: Marwan Naamani/dpa leer menos

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