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.
Unbelievable! Greece filled with blood-dripping self-flagellating Muslims on Saturday (video)
A festival of blood and self-harm in Piraeus