Demonstrations over libel of Prophet Muhammad contine

BEIRUT Feb. 9 (Al-Manar)--Hundreds of thousands march for Ashoura & protest at the insulting cartoons. Hundreds of thousands of people marched in Beirut for Ashoura and they protest the insulting Prophet Mohammed cartoons. The crowds carried slogans saying "The nation of the Prophet will not accept offence," and "What will there be after the insults?"

However hundreds of thousands of Lebanese marked Ashoura, the anniversary of the martyrdom of Imam Hussein, grandson of the Prophet Mohammad, on Thursday.
The Imam along with many of his family members and his followers were martyred in the Iraqi area of Karbala 1326 years ago.

Masses of Muslims wept here in the southern suburbs of Beirut like other places across Lebanon.
Then griefed masses gathered for the annual march organized by Hezbollah.
For them the day of Ashoura symbolizes the peak of sacrifice because Imam Hussein refused to pledge allegiance to corrupt ledears at the time and sought to reform the nation even if he were to sacrifice his life. He was decapitated and his head taken to Damascus, the seat of Yazid's Ummayad dynasty.

And Muslim say Imam Hussein's stance can be applied in all times and across the world.
With this in mind women, old and young men, and even children challenged rain and wind and chanted "labayk Ya Hussein", we are at your service Hussein.
They were in their hundreds of thousands to also chant "labayka Ya rasolulalla", we are at your service oh prophet of God as anger mounted here and across the Muslim world over cartoons insulting prohet Mohammed.

The Hezbollah leadership said the theme of this year's march is the defense of prophet Mohammed and his dignity as Muslims refuse that a prophet of God be insulted in the name of freedom of expression. And the call was heard by these masses who strongly protested the attack on the prophet.

Like every year the demonstrators also chanted death to America and death to Israel.
They support the right of people to resist occupation, wherever it could be in Palestine, Lebanon, and Iraq. And slam the US-led campaign against the resistance in Lebanon, which has come under mounting US pressure and intervention.

And the masses defied bad whether to make their voice heard on this holy day of Ashoura.

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