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The Most Atrocious Crime at All Times

Many have written about war crimes, ethnic crimes, sectarian crimes, crimes against humanity,.. etc, and how much impact do all these wrong doings have on human nature and social behavior. There is one crime, or a series of crimes, that shocked the human conscience of all peace - loving human beings. Many, for many decades, and from different ethnic, cultural, philosophical, and religious backgrounds, tried to portrait one of the many dimensions of what really happened back then at the seventh century AD. It was when the grandson of the Prophet Mohammad, Imam Hussein, stood with a few of his companions against tyranny embodied by all the allies of unjustice, trespassing on public and human rights. Hussein, his family, his sons, his brothers, and companions (who were about seventy men) with their children and women at the middle of nowhere in the desert in a simmering day of summer. Tyranny army was composed of about 60,000. They blocked access to the water and left Hussein with no water for three days. Women and children are starving and dying of thirst. Hussein told them that they were fighting him and that children and women had nothing to do with anything. He tried everything to enlighten them and remind them that they know who he is and the Tyrant Yazeed is using them and going to betray them, but no one was listening. At the third day, the day of Ashuraa, the battle began. Hussein and all his followers were slaughtered in a very bloody and savage way.. They even slaughtered his infant while he was between his arms. The tents were burnt and flames forced women and children to flee astray in the desert. They were beaten to death by whips and thirst. The corpses were treaded by horses, then robbed the clothes, cut the heads and carried them on spears. During all times one may not find such a crime for no reason. They didn't ask for crowning, neither did they ask for benefits. They were fighting for justice, dignity, equity, freedom, and every noble merit that Islam brought to life at that illiterate and wild community. The crime was committed against the family of the Prophet Mohammad, the prophet of Islam, by some who pretended to be Muslims. It was the tax of saying "No" to unjustice, tyranny, corruption, humiliation, and wrongfulness. By that, what happened inspires all free minds and peace-loving people and let many of them seek guidance from the message of Imam Hussein.