Thousands of Muslims descended onto London streets to commemorate the martyrdom of Imam Hussain, grandson of Prophet Muhammad. According to history, 1400 years ago Imam Hussain led an army of 72 men against the army of a tyrannical regime comprised of 30,000 soldiers on the plains of Kerbala, a desert approximately 100Km from the south of today's Baghdad. The small army was destroyed yet it took the 30,000 strong nearly 4 hours to defeat them.
Imam Hussain is regarded as an example of standing to make a difference in face of adversity,opression,dictatorship and injustice both by Muslims and non-Muslims and his words are widely quoted by intellectuals, world leaders and revolutionaries.
The march attracted a diverse Muslim community with a message of peace and against of the misuse of religion as justification for personal and political agendas.
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