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A Kashmiri Shia Muslim boy dressed as IRGC (Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps) holds an Islamic flag during the Ashura procession in Srinagar on August 20, 2021. Shia Muslim believers offer prayers, beat their chests while chanting religious slogans and distribute religious food called “nazri”, as they reenact aspects of the killing of Imam Hussain and his 72 followers in 680AD in Karbala on Ashura (the 10th of Muharram), in modern-day Iraq, by the far larger armies of the Yazid. Imam Hussain is revered among Shia's as the “Lord of the Martyrs”, whose resistance and willingness to die for his religious faith in the face of overwhelming force is venerated by Shia's as a model for daily life. (Photo by Idrees Abbas/SOPA Images/Rex Features/Shutterstock)
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