Re: Karbala
You didn't really understand where I was coming from....
So Hazrat Zainul Abideen just stood there and watched while Hazrat Hussain and other members of his family were killed?
What about others that supported Hazrat Hussain?
They didn't do nothing other than retelling stories and doing Matams and more extreme version of such ritual continue today???
It depends which side's story you believe. Apparently, not many believe the stories that Shias tell about events of Karbala as they are meant to defame and degrade the sunnis as a whole. One needs to look at events before karbala, the group that became saperated from rest of the ummah, the killing of Umar, Uthman (events that led to his death) and Ali... Karbala was the climax of what had happened to three caliphas.
I may not be as much knowledgeable and may not be the forum "know it all" but I know what is wrong and what is right when I see it. And frankly knowing more or little doesn't change the facts.