Many in the West seem confused about why people across so many countries are protesting the killing of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. For Shia Pakistanis and other South Asians, the reaction runs deeper than politics. It echoes the mobilization sparked by Ruhollah Khomeini in 1979 and draws from a central current within Shia Islam — where martyrdom and resistance to unjust killing shape collective memory, grief, and action. #shia