Bangladeshi Muslims observe the Ashura festival Bangladeshi Shiite Muslims take part in a religious procession of the Ashura mourning period in Dhaka. The religious festival of Ashura, which includes a ten-day mourning period starting on the first day of Muharram on the Islamic calendar, commemorates the seventh-century slaying of Prophet Mohammed's grandson Imam Hussein in Karbala. IMAGESGRAPHIC CONTENT: BLOOD