White Muslims, We Need to Talk
<p>Those 32 soldiers had spent their entire lives in service to another cause. They walked out of their homes and they marched to Karbala with thousands of men just like them. They armed themselves to fight in what they were told was a righteous cause. With other soldiers they held the line holding back Imam Husayn and his followers for nine full days. Yet in this one definitive moment they saw the truth of the world revealed to them — and in that moment they became conspirators against everything they had been led to believe was the truth. They didn’t just name the injustice and left it at that; they didn’t choose not to take part and walk away from the battle. They faced the truth, turned around to raise arms against their former way and fought with everything they had for what was right and just.</p>
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