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Prophet's Dilemma: The Sunni Shia Split Part 1

Conflicted: A History Podcast

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The Last Male Blood Relative of the Prophet Mohammed

On october tenth in the year six 80 a d a battle took place at carbala. 72 travellers were surrounded by an army, cut off from their water supply for three days and then massacred. All the men had their heads cut off, and the women and children were hauled away in chains. The bodies were left to rot in the desert at the very same spot where the mosque in carbala stands. It holds an astronomical amount of significance for shia moslems - one of the two main branches of islam.

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