As Raza has said that Karbala wasn't a stand alone incident but a finality of the brutal behaviour Ahl-e-bayt had been suffering from decades. It was a massacre to silence the family of the Prophet... yet they couldn't. The battle continued & ignited a fire within everyone https://twitter.com/RazaAliKhan_/status/1300347878628622336
who supported the cause of Hussain till date. Imam Ali & his children might have tolerated several instances for the sake of peace but KARBALA was the answer. It's not right to say that Shi'as go overboard, it's minimum of retaliation to what they have been denied from centuries.
The discrimination you see around you isn't new. During Umayyad dynasty, Imam Ali & his family was cursed on the orders Muawiyah during every Friday congregational prayers from all the mosques of the caliphate!
Shi'as were persecuted throughout the Islamic history, the siege of Baghdad, the Ottoman empire, the Abbasids who pledged loyalty to Ahl-e-bayt being of the same blood of Hashemitie clan whilst continuing Umayyad traditions & subjugation.

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