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Lebanese Shiites fear Salafist terrorism during Ashoura

This year, the Salafist practice of targeting Shiite Ashoura processions in Iraq may spread to Lebanon.

A correspondent in Beirut
A correspondent in Beirut
Nov 6, 2013
Shi'ite Muslim men bleed as they gash their foreheads with swords and beat themselves during a ceremony marking Ashura in Nabatieh, southern Lebanon November 25, 2012. Shi'ite mourners beat themselves during Ashura with steel-tipped flails or slash their bodies with knives to mark the death anniversary of Imam Hussein, a grandson of the Prophet Mohammad, who was killed during a battle in A.D. 680 in Kerbala, a city in modern-day Iraq. REUTERS/Sharif Karim (LEBANON - Tags: RELIGION) SOCIETY) - RTR3AURP
Shiite Muslim men bleed as they gash their foreheads with swords and beat themselves during a ceremony marking Ashoura in Nabatiyeh, southern Lebanon, Nov. 25, 2012. — REUTERS/Sharif Karim

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