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One of the biggest pilgrimages in the world is underway, with millions of Shia Muslims risking their lives to travel through Iraq. They are making their way to the city of Karbala, 62 miles south-west of Baghdad, for the holy day of Arbaeen on 12 December - a journey that has previously been the target of numerous terrorist attacks. Arbaeen marks the end of a 40-day mourning period following Ashura, the religious ritual that commemorates the death of the Prophet Mohammads grandson Imam Hussein in 680. Muslims revere him as their third imam and mourn his defeat at the battle of Karbala, when he and his companions were killed and beheaded by Caliph Yazid’s army. The city holds the Imam Hussein Shrine, which was the destination of an estimated 20 million people from 40 countries in 2013. 9
Posted on: Sat, 13 Dec 2014 18:52:55 +0000

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