Umesh Sharma wrote: > It is believed by many that these Muslims are always
> ready to fight because of two things - or three . > One is that they have a festival of Muharram -- where > they inflict pain upon themselves - making themselves > impervious to pain. it is generally seen that smaller groups that feel threathened by larger groups go to extraordinary lengths to display their loayality. it helps to keep loyalties. it is likely that the shia, who celebrate muharram, are the smaller group that have to keep themselves intact against the larger sunni group. the pain in muharram is not islam specific. similar display of pain exists in hindu groups, for example in malaysia. here are some photos of the thaipusam festival and i am sure you will see the parallel with muharram: http://www.photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=571037 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ assam mailing list assam@assamnet.org http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
