http://www.washingtonpost.com?wprss=rss_linkset American. Feminist. Progressive. With Pamela Taylor. 15 en http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Copyright 2012 Washington Post Company 140 20 http://www.washingtonpost.com?wprss=rss_linkset http://media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif Fri, 17 Dec 2010 11:59:29 EST 147 When the Prophet Muhammad and his people moved to Madinah, they found the Jewish tribes there fasted in remembrance of their ancestors being succored from Egypt and Pharaoh -- Yom Kippur, or the Day of Atonement. Muhammad said that Muslims too remember and are grateful for God's blessing on Moses and his people, and so Muslim began fasting on the day of Ashura as well.

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