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IRAQ. Baghdad. At the shrine of al-QASEMIYA, Shia women, wearing the islamic veil, beat their chest as a sign of mourning during the celebrations leading to Aarbayine. This ritual ends the month of Ashura when Imam HUSSEIN was killed in a war of succession at the dawn of Islam.


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