Religion of Peace thru Barbarism

It's that time again. Ashoura "Festival." Remember last year, click here? I expect this to be all the rage in Hollywood shortly, cutting in a big way - Insane Fonda,  Penn, Sarandon - this is one rally they ought to be leading.

The blood stains are seen on the back of an Afghan Shiite Muslim flagellating himself with knives during the Muharram procession in Kabul, Afghanistan.

Pakistani Shiite Muslim beats himself with chains to mourn the death of his spiritual leader Imam Hussein, grandson of Prophet Mohammad in Lahore.

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Afghan Shiite Muslim flagellate themselves with knives during the muharram procession in Kabul, Afghanistan.

Muslims Across Islamic World Take Part in Ashoura Festival FOX New 

Muslims across the Islamic world took part Monday in the religious festival of Ashoura, marked by fasting and bloody mourning rituals for the death of Prophet Mohammad's grandson Imam Hussein.

Speaking at a mosque in the capital, Afghan President Hamid Karzai spoke of the significance of Ashoura: "This day teaches us about resistance and to fight for our rights, even if we are weak and not armed with weapons."

Ashoura, or 10th day of the lunar month of Muharram, is marked by Muslims as a whole with a day of fasting that commemorates the day Noah left the Ark, and the day that Moses was saved from the Egyptians by God.

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Comments

[Steve Harkonnen]

This flagellation business is just so damn insane.

Jeez, that sounds like Saddam Hussein, doesn't it?

[Ripper]

I don't want to sound like a bad guy but let these nut jobs bleed to death.

[Irish Cicero]

Atlas, you have to quit running pictures like this! I think, in a weak moment, I could convert to Islam! I mean, this shit is cool, man!

[Jimmy the Dhimmi]

In Honor of this most holy day commemorating the martyrdom of Ali Hussein (propellor beanie upon him), I present to you the following YTMND:

Happy Ashura to the Children of Islam!

[Test Test]

"Religion of Peace": Muslim Indicted, Another Guilty for Death Threats Against Debbie Schlussel

http://www.debbieschlussel.com/archives/2007/01/muslim_indicted.html

[wxjames]

It's the religion of blood, death, beheadings...
Hey, in a few centuries, these people may even invent surgery.

[Rancher]

Azarmehr, who blogs For a Democratic Secular Iran, laments the fact that since it coincides with the Ashura the Sadeh Celebration will not be celebrated as the Iranian Mullahs do their best to eradicate all aspects of Persia’s culture.

Today, the day of Sadeh Celebration, should be the third most important celebration in the Iranian calendar after Nowrooz and Mehregan. In the Book of Kings, according to Iranian mythology, it is the day man discovered how to create fire at will and control it for the benefit of mankind.

Traditional celebration of Sadeh involves lighting a big fire outdoors. The ceremony is followed by singing and dancing around the fire by the people gathered for the festivity. Everyone is expected to participate in the festival by bringing wood for the fire.

By contributing to feed the flames of fire collectively together, we symbolically provide light and illumination to our mind, and hence the Zoroastrian tenets of Good Thoughts, Good Words and Good Deeds. By contributing to feed the flames of fire collectively, we remember the visible symbol of the Invisible Divine Light to fight evil.

But there will be no large fires in the birth place of Zarathustra today. There will be no singing and dancing around the fire. Today coincides with the Shiite ceremony of Ashura on the lunar Arab calendar. A day in which a battle between Arabs in Karbala is commemorated. A day in which heads were decapitated and raised aloft on spears as trophies, and little babies killed by arrows through their throats. A day in which water was denied to thirsty children, stranded in the desert.

Instead of singing and dancing in the land of Cyrus, men will beat their bare chests, and whip their backs with chains, men and children will draw blood by striking their heads with large daggers and Shiite priests will perform sermons in mosques with the sole intention of making the faithful weep.

Today in the land of Zarathustra, martyrdom, blood, death, lamentation and self flagellation have displaced the singing, dancing and the zest for life and pursuit of happiness.

[loshon hara]

I posted on this subject too. When I came by here later after I wrote up on this I saw you had great pictures and I used the later two in my post with a courtesy to you.

Where do you find the great pictures Pam? I was would of been left with only the one I could find at Fox News - but thanks again to you I could give a better viewing of what these people do.

Talk about total insanity! Here is the addy so you can be sure you did get the credit for those two later pictures.

http://tinyurl.com/2grxel

[ZionistYoungster]

Hey, the guy in the second picture looks just like an antiwar protest hippie. I knew there was some reason they're together in this!

Rancher,

What Azarmehr describes has a name: cultural imperialism. In this case, however, it isn't being perpetrated by Westerners ("Whites") on non-Westerners, so you won't see the Left wasting its time on it.