Shi’ite Muslims across several countries were seen covered in blood as they cut, whipped and struck themselves with sharp objects during Ashura, an annual religious festival held to mourn the death of Imam Hussein. Ashura, one of the most significant events in the Shi’ite Islamic calendar, commemorates the killing of Imam Hussein in a seventh-century […] The post Shi’ite Muslims drenched in blood as they cut themselves to mark festival appeared first on Tribune Online .