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Unbelievable! Greece filled with blood-dripping self-flagellating Muslims on Saturday (video)

A festival of blood and self-harm in Piraeus

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The growing Islamic community of Greece marked the festival of Ashura on Saturday to commemorate the killing of the Prophet Muhammad’s grandson, Imam Hussein. Tears, prayer, and self-flagellation were the order of the day in an international festival that had Shiite muslims self-harming as part of a controversial practice known as Ashura.

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