MUSLIM men marched through Blackburn beating their breasts in the traditional mourning of the tragedy of Kerbala in Iraq.
Historically, Imam Hussain and his 72 followers were slain by the army of the tyrant Yazid.
A petition circulated on the march called for coalition forces fighting in Iraq to spare the country's Muslim shrines.
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