bds1 Posted November 17, 2003 Share Posted November 17, 2003 Ashura celebrates the martyrdom of Hassan and Hussein, Imam Ali's sons. Ali was at the origin of the first shism within Islam. Passions run high during these celebrations: faithfuls flog themselves with chains, or beat their chests. <br><img src="http://www.leica-gallery.net/photo-lib/image/large/05-56450.gif"><br><img src="http://www.leica-gallery.net/photo-lib/image/large/08-56448.gif"><br>folder here<br>http://www.leica-gallery.net/bds/folder-5788.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eric__damn_those_seagulls_1664877331 Posted November 17, 2003 Share Posted November 17, 2003 Huh?!? Where and when does this happen in London? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
h._p. Posted November 17, 2003 Share Posted November 17, 2003 Excellent pictures. It's always good to see the loonies at play. And speaking of loonies, I take it you'll be in London tomorrow for the Bush-o-rama? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eric__damn_those_seagulls_1664877331 Posted November 17, 2003 Share Posted November 17, 2003 Harvey, I am an atheist myself but your comments are intolerant: this is a major and solemn Shia religious anniversary. How would you like someone calling members of a Catholic procession loonies for dressing up and carrying pictures of a martyred Christ? Come on mods! Brian, I like your February anti-war and Man U folders. I'll never forget it: 2 million marching together for peace and against imperialism: truly a once in a lifetime event. Get your Leica cleaned, oiled and ready, fill your pockets with Ilford... get ready for Thursday. 200,000 Brits have a special welcome for a certain genocidal, pretzel-wrestling illiterate! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crackers_. Posted November 17, 2003 Share Posted November 17, 2003 Yea yea, another once-in-a-lifetime event. Kinda like shooting at a flock of geese in a cornfield. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m_. Posted November 17, 2003 Share Posted November 17, 2003 Great shots, Brain, although the second one seems to be a little off the "decisive moment" unless that was intended. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m_. Posted November 17, 2003 Share Posted November 17, 2003 loonies or not, it is caller's game. humen are like a bunch of geese flocking the earth unless someone truly believes otherwise which is a true demonstration that he is the human goose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Williams Posted November 17, 2003 Share Posted November 17, 2003 I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jerry_lehrer Posted November 17, 2003 Share Posted November 17, 2003 Richard No, they cannot! Some fish eat humans. Most humans eat fish. Do you call that co-existance? Yumm-- SUSHI Jerry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
h._p. Posted November 17, 2003 Share Posted November 17, 2003 "How would you like someone calling members of a Catholic procession loonies for dressing up and carrying pictures of a martyred Christ?" I'd have no problem with that at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eric__damn_those_seagulls_1664877331 Posted November 17, 2003 Share Posted November 17, 2003 "I'd have no problem with that at all" To be honest, neither would I. :-) Sorry, but sometimes it's hard to tell where people are coming from on these boards. Brian: I have never seen such an event in London and am quite curious. Was it in Speaker�s Corner? Was it impromptu? How large was the gathering? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
george_conboy1 Posted November 17, 2003 Share Posted November 17, 2003 Intolerant? If disdaining something is intolerant, then I am intolerant. I suppose flogging yourself would be self-intolerance. That's plain nuts. But there is a big difference between regarding someone with disdain and calling for death to the infidels. Now that's intolerant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joshroot Posted November 17, 2003 Share Posted November 17, 2003 No major terrorist attacks since 9-11? Try telling that to the families of the 187 people killed in the Bali nightclub bombing that happened just over a year ago. I'm sure they will agree. Or did you mean no major attacks in the US? Since there have only been two other major "terrorist" attacks on US soil ever (and one of those came from a US citizen). I'm not sure how much you can make of that statistic either. Energetic photos though Brian. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
h._p. Posted November 17, 2003 Share Posted November 17, 2003 "there hasn't been a major terrorist attack since 9-11" There must be some considerable difference between the American and British meaning of the word 'major'. I suspect that several Australians would take considerable issue with such a statement, not to mention Turks, Israellis, Iraquis, and lots of others. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jim bob Posted November 17, 2003 Share Posted November 17, 2003 They have a right to be ugly but I think they are abusing the privelege. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Williams Posted November 17, 2003 Share Posted November 17, 2003 This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eric__damn_those_seagulls_1664877331 Posted November 17, 2003 Share Posted November 17, 2003 Yes Frank, the White Man�s Burden certainly is heavy one. Your grasp of economics and history is shockingly lacking, but in a way unsurprising, considering the constant barrage of ludicrous propaganda the average American is subjected to on a daily basis. �No major terrorist attacks since 9-11�� what do you call almost 4000 civilian deaths in Afghanistan and up to 9700 civilian deaths in Iraq since 9-11 resulting directly from US aggression? Out of sight out of mind, eh? I suggest you visit this site to educate yourself: http://www.iraqbodycount.net/ This war and the Afghan campaign is about ensuring long term domination of the world�s central area of oil wealth for the US and denying it to a growingly unified EU (that�s is why Germany and France are so against the war). Like it or not, that is what the vast majority or human beings on this planet understand and believe, because it is based on very strong empirical, historical and economic evidence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Williams Posted November 17, 2003 Share Posted November 17, 2003 It is clear our nation is reliant upon big foreign oil. More and more of our imports come from overseas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricM Posted November 17, 2003 Share Posted November 17, 2003 why can't they find these two limping old guys out in the desert anyway? still hiding in caves? hmm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eric__damn_those_seagulls_1664877331 Posted November 17, 2003 Share Posted November 17, 2003 Sigh! Frank that was me being civil. Read my post again: I never said the EU wasn�t just as guilty of imperialist crimes as the US. They simply don�t have the �full spectrum dominance� to carry out the same war crimes the US does on a regular basis (not yet anyway). Please don�t take this to be patronising, but I suggest you start pushing past the information you receive through your mass-media: challenge facts, search the web for different perspectives. Read into the history of US military interventions in the 20th century: Iran, Chile, Iraq, Panama, Somalia, Yugoslavia etc, etc. Since 1945 the United States has carried out extremely serious interventions into more than 70 nations. Then maybe the next time your son, daughter, sister, brother, friend, workmate, cousin etc comes back from some foreign land in a body bag and Bush refuses to even turn up to their funeral, you�ll understand exactly what they lost their life for. I'll leave it at that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul_neuthaler Posted November 17, 2003 Share Posted November 17, 2003 Nice shooting: next time use a Glock! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olivier_reichenbach Posted November 17, 2003 Share Posted November 17, 2003 There he goes again, good old anti-France, anti-Germany, anti-EU blind propagandist Frank P. Frank, you've got to be kidding. Your naivety (I prefer to call it that) scares me to death. So unselfish, the US in Iraq, that I'm sure Halliburton (and Brown and Root) must have opened a bank account in Bagdad, and in Kabul. to provide some work for the locals, and to deposit the billion dollars they will collect from the war. As for Harvey and his «loonies» comments, this is one of the reasons why war and terrorism rage. This arrogant, superior, scornful Westerner attitude. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terry_rory Posted November 17, 2003 Share Posted November 17, 2003 Frank I am not sure why you have summoned me with your "(or trevor...)" in your last update. I have no axe to grind on (or with) the subject matter in this thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joshroot Posted November 17, 2003 Share Posted November 17, 2003 Lol, "summoned" Trevor you must be a genie! I wish for a jet-powered monkey-driven go-cart. Gimmie Gimmie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
christopher. Posted November 17, 2003 Share Posted November 17, 2003 Great pictures to commemorate the start of revelations. (Snickers sarcasticly) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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