The Muslim Festival Of Ashura - Graphic Photos

Sweetness & Light ^ | January 28, 2007 | N/A

[Sam Hill]

Today begins Ashura, which like the festival of Eid al-Adha is another bloodthirsty Muslim holiday:

  

  

And we wonder why these people are so violent.

Excerpted. Please read the rest at Sweetness & Light...

[Sam Hill]

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[Sam Hill]

Ping.

[newconhere]

Oh my goodness. I do not and will not ever understand any of this.

[OMalley]

WHat the heck is wrong with these ppl??

[Fiddlstix]

What a wonderful religion.
</sarcasm>

[Sam Hill]

It wouldn't be so bad if they just stuck to mutilating themselves. But they don't:

[wastedyears]

Somebody help them out and use a 20Lb mace across their heads.

[Star Traveler]

You said -- "The Eid Festival Around The World - Graphic Photos"

Well, what are you going to say when the Jews reinstitute the Temple sacrifices in Israel?

Regards,
Star Traveler

[rottndog]

WHat the heck is wrong with these ppl??

rhetorical question deserving of a rhetorical answer: They are muslims?

[Fawn]

In a few years....will we get this day off as a holiday?

[spokeshave]

Coming to a neighborhood near you....quaint cultural diversity...

[michigander]

Pilgrims beat themselves with iron chains at Imam Abbas shrine in Kerbala, 110 km (70 miles) south of Baghdad, January 27, 2007. Tens of thousands
of Shi'ite Muslims are expected to gather in Kerbala this week to celebrate a religious festival called Ashura, the day when Imam al-Hussein, the 'leader
of the martyrs' and grandson of Prophet Mohammed was killed in Kerbala in 680 AD. REUTERS/Mushtaq Muhammad (IRAQ)



Young pilgrims cry at Imam Abbas shrine in Kerbala,...

[Sam Hill]

If and when that happens (and it's highly unlikely) I will probably post photos from it.

Of course if you recall the discussion of the Eid photos at FR, you will remember that there are significant differences.

[rottndog]

Beating themselves in the head....maybe that's what's wrong with muslimes---they all have brain damage...

[armymarinemom]

My big question to California. Are you going to allow parents to do this to your children?

[Screamname]

The freggin` animals whipping themsleves, yet liberals scream bloody murder if we put uderwear on their heads.

[OMalley]

OMG!
the look on the moms face in the 3rd picture. SICKOS!!!

[Tzimisce]

I could have swore that I saw this picture with the little girl cut out of it, less than an hour ago on AlJazeera.com with the headline "Iraq Mortar Fire Kills Schoolgirls". Can anyone verify this? Send me a note if you can.

[Star Traveler]

You said -- "If and when that happens (and it's highly unlikely) I will probably post photos from it."

Well, it's not highly unlikely -- it's *absolutely guaranteed* that this will happen from Jesus' words in the Gospels, when He was talking about the "abomination of desolation" when he referenced Daniel. The Temple *has to be in place* and the sacrifices will be *interrupted* at that time -- at the future time that Jesus was talking about. By His own words, these things will be taking place.

Whether you are here or not will depend upon whether you are a Christian or not.

Regards,
Star Traveler

[Screamname]

Anything that involves blood, death, beheadings, gore (not Al, I mean the shocking death scenes. Well Al too, but that`s another story) you can bet the muzzies are into it.

[michigander]

That would explain a great many things...

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I can't understand why I have this splitting headache.
Stay cool though.

[Screamname]

Nothing better than an enemy that kills itself. I must say though; we should inform them that they are not trying hard enough, that Allah is dissappointed.

[Continental Soldier]

Do we need any clearer evidence that we need to take a careful, clear-eyed look at religion -- where it comes from and where it is likely to lead us?

[newconhere]

Look at that mother smiling. Unfreakinbelievable.

[michigander]

Don't know about any cropping but you did descibe the caption that goes with that image.

[IronJack]

Is self-flagellation somehow superior to other-flagellation? I mean, could they earn the same karmic return on their effort if WE beat them with broomhandles or barbed wire? I would be glad to volunteer to take a cat-o'-nine-tails to a whole mosqueful of these losers.

[backtothestreets]

This is madness. Equally maddening, and bordering on either insanity or an abandonment of responsibility by our leaders is the increase of Muslim immigrants from these cultures.

Western culture teaches us to heal wounds. Islamic culture teaches to create wounds. Our nation cannot benefit an iota from the addition of destroyers of life to our society. Leave the Muslims where they are to drown in their own blood.

[huldah1776]

Animal sacrifices, grain offerings, eaten by the priests. God still asks us to sacrifice today. Give up the ice cream so the poor can have some. But I will say, after the temple is rebuilt, and sacrifices resume, beware of the abomination that causes desolation.

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

[Screamname]

Hoy shiet!!! Get that over to Drudge right away, he`ll post it on his headlines. Absoute clear example of blatant manipulation by the MSM.

[itsLUCKY2B]

SAVAGES!!

[The_Reader_David]

For those keeping a scorecard so you can tell the players: only the Shi'ites self-mutilate on Ashura, in commemoration of the murder of Ali, Mohammed's nephew and son-in-law, whom they regard as his legitimate successor. For all Muslims, it is fast in commemoration of (I kid you not) the liberation of the Israelites from Egypt.

I would, observe, however, that in some places, Latin Christians engage in self-mutilation in imitation of Christ's sufferings, so this particular Shi'ite oddity might not be so foreign as it seems at first.

[353FMG]

You'd better get used to it. Someday the same may happen in your neighborhood. Don't forget, our Constitution says that even violent idiots have the freedom of expression. Have a happy Ashura y'all.

[Sam Hill]

You've nailed it squire!

Five schoolgirls were killed in a mortar attack on their school in Baghdad on Sunday[EPA]

[newconhere]

Not in my life time. I will be a one man army if I have to before this happens in my neigborhood.

[Myrddin]

Next up...MRSA infections. Might as well do the job right.

[Myrddin]

My big question to California. Are you going to allow parents to do this to your children?

Certainly. It's religious freedom. You just can spank them.

[Sam Hill]

The AP has now changed the caption on that photo to read:

"An Iraqi student walks past a pool of blood at the entrance of her school in Baghdad's al-Adel neighborhood after it was targeted by a mortar attack which killed one girl. At least 24 Iraqis have been killed in ambushes, car bombs and firefights as Shiite Muslims headed to the shrine city of Karbala for Ashura, one of their most sacred ceremonies. Photo:Wisam Sami/AFP"

So AJ had it right.

My mistake for including it with the rest. But I'm fairly sure it was worded differently before.

[mathurine]

What are they doing in Dearborn for this high holiday?

[Screamname]

I`m wondering though which story is right now...Is the mortar attack the right story or is this blood from the self whipping? If it is the self whipping, it does seem like a lot of blood just from that, and if it is the mortar attack, why is there this pool of blood and no damage to the surrounding area?

[LibKill]

Barbaric!

[Loud Mime]

I wonder if the world can use radioactive oil?

[johnmark7]

Well, proud Jewish parents are joyful when their sons are circumsized which can't be pleasant for the baby.

Still, it's different, I know.

Dennis Prager, when he was young and traveling on a bus met an Iraqi man. He asked him to tell him in a sentence or two about the Iraqis as a people. The man said, "We are the most barbaric people in the world."

Prager said he was chilled by the response. This was long before anybody ever heard of Iraq.

[Sam Hill]

I must have mis-copied. This was the photo I meant to post in that slot:

[Recon by Fire]

What are you doing with that chain pilgrim?

Just beating myself with it.

[Steve Van Doorn]

that pic of the girl has been removed from the festival pics.

[michigander]

It appears that the mortar attack is the story for the image.
The Ashura is mentioned as an after thought in the caption.
It may also not be a lot of blood...

[Uncle Meat]

This looks like something out of "Hellraisers".Pinhead would be proud.

[mikrofon]

Sign this guy up for the Baghdad Ballet...

[MARKUSPRIME]

Third world brain.