Women, men, elderly, and children made their way to the city of Karbala on Sunday and Monday last week for the holy day of Arbaeen. Arbaeen is the event which marks the end of the 40-day mourning period following Ashura, the religious ritual that commemorates the death of the Prophet Mohammad's grandson Imam Hussein in 680 AD.
As the Independent reports, massive crowds paid homage to the shrines of Imam Hussein and his half-brother Abbas in Karbala, where they were killed in a revolt against the Umayyad ruler Yazeed in the 7th century AD when they refused to pledge allegiance to Yazeed's Umayyad caliphate.
Registering only as a blip on the Independent, this most amazing feat was conducted in spite of ISIS, as well as the sacred annual pilgrimage.
Comment: By some estimates, ISIS is made up of about 100,000 - a statistically insignificant number of so-called Muslims next to so many hundreds of millions more individuals who are not fundamentalist jihadi types. And so, in creating ISIS, we have the US government and other governments of the West - as well as their whorish media to thank for painting more than a billion individuals with a twisted blood-soaked brush.