Shiite Afghans worship at own risk
by Shashank Bengali, Los Angeles Times
Oct 22, 2017
4 minutes
KABUL, Afghanistan - Dozens of men gathered in a dust-blown graveyard Saturday to pay their last respects to 83-year-old Karbalai Mohammad Anwar Noori, one of at least 50 people killed in a suicide bombing the night before at a nearby mosque in west Kabul.
As Noori's sons and nephews fought back tears, a tall, turbaned cleric stood above the mound of freshly turned dirt where the shroud-wrapped body was laid to rest. Speaking into a microphone, he invoked the words of Imam Jafar Sadiq, the sixth imam in Shiite Islam.
"Those who worship must be cautious and clever," said
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