Happy Ashura everyone! In case you’ve missed this years festivities you can see how kids from Lebanon and Baghdad celebrated this special occasion…
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January 7th, 2009 at 6:59 pm
Awesome pics - truly mystifying that anyone could think this was OK in any way, shape or form.
Though now we can wait for the usual group of shia apologists or sunni “this is not true islam” comments…
January 7th, 2009 at 8:11 pm
they have no respect for human life…no wonder they enjoy killing us.
January 7th, 2009 at 10:24 pm
It’s amazing to me to think that the people who perpetrate these acts are the same ones that will tell you that if a child views pornography they will be scarred for life. I’ve always said that an act in and of itself is meaningless, it’s what we imbue the act with that matters.
January 7th, 2009 at 10:58 pm
my Muslim and Arab friends, why do you do this and the reason behind this tradition? I have never seen this before and is complete new to me. I will have to read the other articles on here, since some have comment on similar topic. Does all Muslims do this or just some of a certain sec?
I am just curious and would love to share my curiosity.
January 8th, 2009 at 1:09 am
Hyrocket - same as the deluded Xtian idiots who think that self-flagelation and nailing ones self to a cross like jeebus is actually spiritual and/or a useful thing to do for the good of humanity.
January 8th, 2009 at 1:28 am
thanks Jayman, it’s like scripture is not enough and these people have to add something when there is nothing to add. Jesus has paid OUR sins. In Romans 5:8 “God demonstrated His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us” it is finished and nothing we do can add to this Ultimate sacrifice.
They need to focus on evangelism on parts of the world where Muslim women lives and share the truth in the only way in Jesus Christ.
Thanks for your post 5
January 8th, 2009 at 2:56 pm
hyrocket, there have been plenty of atrocities carried out in the name of the christian god throughout the last two thousand years. At least these kids will live through it.
January 9th, 2009 at 2:59 pm
And muslims wonder why people think they are stark raving mad. Anyone that does that to a little kid should lose those kids. It is just insane. But then, so is teaching religion to a kid that age in general.
May 23rd, 2009 at 3:34 pm
palestina e hamas são pedofilias islãmicas como gays barbudos e lesbiças véus vagabundas(revoluções islamicas pedofilias).
vão tomar nos cuzonas poderosas de hamas,brigada aiaqsas,hugo chavez,mas bolivianos,mnn,pmn e p-sol vagabundas!!!!!!!!!!
Hamas and Palestinian Islamic pedophilia are as bearded gay and lesbian whores veils (Islamic revolutions pedophilia).
will take us CUZON powers of hamas, aiaqsas brigade, hugo chavez, but Bolivians, mnn, PMN and p-sol whores !!!!!!!!!!
December 12th, 2009 at 3:01 pm
Dear all, I’m belong to that religion and we all as Shia knows that “blood sheding” is not allowed and it’s HARAM!!
So please do not generalization that to all Shia Muslims.
December 25th, 2009 at 8:50 am
you people are so ignorant, these acts are not justified within the quran and are wrong, this is a sin and it only occurs in middle eastern countries where the extremists reside in.
i am a muslim, i do ashura, but not like this. this is wrong and so would numerous other muslims believe this.
people on this website are so single minded but then again this website is completely bias only and always portraying one side of the story.. where do you expect the peace to derive from.
a complete waste of time.
im truly dissapointed
December 25th, 2009 at 1:37 pm
Re 10 and 11, go look up “No True Scotsman Fallacy”.
Stupid, stupid religious freaks.
December 27th, 2009 at 8:24 am
houdahh,
Then go away you stinky, goat-fucking, homo-worshiping muslim shitstain.
December 27th, 2009 at 7:42 pm
Can you retarded morans actually read up on this before u start commenting like retarded red-necked hillbillys.
Many of the male and female participants congregate together in public for ceremonial chest beating (matam) as a display of their devotion to Imam Husayn and in remembrance of his suffering. In some Shi’a societies, such as those in Bahrain, Pakistan, India, Afghanistan, Lebanon and Iraq, some male participants incorporate knives or razors swung upon chains into their matam.
You retards think they do this as a hobby??
But honestly, I personally think that this is probably prohibited for babies.
The muslims who do this to the babies just give a bad example
December 27th, 2009 at 9:15 pm
LMAO at “you retarded morans”…
“Ashura”, seems you would have lots in common with this guy in the picture here:
http://religiousfreaks.com/?p=568
Where was it said here that anyone thought this bloodletting was a hobby? It’s plain stupid, whatever else it is.
And as for “The muslims who do this to the babies just give a bad example”, I call you on the No True Scotsman fallacy for that line.
December 28th, 2009 at 8:56 am
joeboo
your fucking mother !!
(=
asshole
December 28th, 2009 at 6:41 pm
I know that the real shia believes is not like these photos showed here. What that you see here, in fact is miscellaneous in shia religion, but some ignorant people, do this against real shia believes.
I know that in Iran, these actions are banned by religious leaders, government and police.
December 28th, 2009 at 8:09 pm
Re 17, specifically “the real shia”, I call you on the No True Scotsman fallacy for that line. Have a read here:
http://www.logicalfallacies.info/presumption/no-true-scotsman/
January 5th, 2010 at 1:20 pm
helo . this kind of stupid practice is related to some ignorant people and never aproved by islamic and shia scholars even it was prohbitd specially by ayatollah khamanei. i wish you politically motivated groups do not poblish these emages and do not provok emotions against shias .
January 7th, 2010 at 9:46 am
hossain, your post 19 is all wrong re why the pictures were posted. Content of this site is driven by the idiocies of religions such as yours, plain and simple. No politics there at all. Get a fucking brain.
And for the 1000′th time, your post is also laced with the No True Scotsman fallacy. Have a read here:
http://www.logicalfallacies.info/presumption/no-true-scotsman/
Also, if your particular holy water message can be misinterpreted, or differently interpreted, it’s flawed (like all the rest of them). And your supposedly omnipotent god needed to use a book for what reason?
April 3rd, 2010 at 11:45 pm
dear all, i belong to this religion this is not right . iam a shia too , i do aashura but not like this . this is sin in quran it says blood shedding is haram . so plz don’t blame all shia’s .and tghis photo’s r so painfull . they r doing this to poor baby’s . this is not right . Iam no agree with this .
May 2nd, 2010 at 11:46 pm
dear,
who said shiite people are muslems.The only thing they can associate themselves to islam is the name. i wonder if our prophet Mohamed was teaching to do this when he was teaching islam how many people would had joined and became muslems. shiite bring disgrace to themsleves only.
May 3rd, 2010 at 10:17 am
there no true muslems or shites. disgrace for humans is what.
Mohamed had a small penisand that explain why he prefer little girls.
August 14th, 2010 at 12:46 pm
I’m Moslem myself and this is surely not Moslem’s holy occasion. Hell no!