Shiites in Lebanon and Bahrain mark Ashoura with bloody marches (GRAPHIC PHOTOS)

Associated Press Newswires | 3-24-02 | By BASSEM MROUE

[FITZ]

Of course don't forget ---Spain had been under Islamic control for 700 years right before it came to the New World. Some of what passes as Christianity in Mexico isn't at all ---some of those traditions are a holdover from the pre-Colombian days.

[FITZ]

I've seen some of the Indians making their pilgrimage to the Basilica de Guadalupe in Mexico ---it's amazing because they'll fall to their knees and continue on ---with their knees bleeding and raw. I don't think it's a Catholic thing though ---you won't catch many Catholics in the US or Europe doing that kind of thing. I don't think many Catholics would even wear the hair shirts the Mormons wear for sacrifice.

[wingnuts'nbolts]

True, but flagelants are in the Catholic Religion, such as Sir Thomas Moore, who wore a hair shirt and beat himself daily.

[Travis McGee]

Radical islam is an insane death cult, and "moderate" islam is its trojan horse.

[Petronski]

Nine out of ten mentally ill fanatics prefer Islam over all other religions.

The rest are Scientologists.

[RIGHT IN SEATTLE]

May AIDS-fast track be with them!

Islam is the religion of peace!

[Victoria Delsoul]

Oh my! This is utterly disgusting.

[dennisw]

They got too much time on their hands and Mullahs who fill up their empty heads with Muslim nonsense.

[Victoria Delsoul]

I think so, too.

[anapikoros]

Bump for juxtaposition - says more than 10,000 words.

[sixmil]

Islam-is-a-beautiful-religion BUMP

[anapikoros]

Interesting - wonder if the Spaniards learnt it from the Moslems who occupied Spain for centuries and the Spaniards in turn introduced it to the Mexicans.

Could be the Spanish cults who practice this today were originally Moslems forced to convert to Catholocism during the inquisition but kept up their primal rituals akin to the Marranos secretly keeping Pesach etc.

[jodorowsky]

OH, CRAP! I forgot it was Ashoura! Now I won't have any scabs to put under my pillow for the Ashoura fairy :(

[sheik yerbouty]

A picture is worth a thousand word!

[freeforall]

The evening news made it seem like a harmless celebration.

[jodorowsky]

It's all worth it when you wake up the next morning and feel under your pillow to find the scabs have turned to delicious unleavened, sugary flatbread!

Thank you Ashoura Fairy!