SHOW OF FAITH: GRUESOME photos show Shia Muslims slice their kids' heads with razors as blood-soaked worshippers cut themselves with swords to celebrate the holy festival of Ashura.

Devout Muslims in cities across the Middle East carried out a ritual of self-flagellation to mark the death of the Prophet Muhammad's grandson.

They mark Husayn's death at the Battle of Karbala, fought between Husayn and Yazid I on October 10 680AD to determine who should succeed the prophet as the leader of Islam.

Yazid is considered a tyrant by some Muslims, and Husayn's death is considered by the Shia community to be a symbol of humanity's struggle against injustice, tyranny, and oppression.

The act of lacerating themselves is seen as a way of cleaning themselves against sins they may have committed.

Pictures show men wincing in agony as they slice open the tops of their heads with knives and swords as blood streams down their white gowns.

In one picture from Iraq's southern city of Nasiriyah, a medic is seen tending to a man in a makeshift clinic.

The ritual, which is sometimes carried out on children, is controversial within the Muslim world, with some research suggesting it can cause lasting psychological damage.

Children in Lebanon were captured with blood on their foreheads after they were cut with a razor.

Another image shows a parent holding their child still as a man taps the razor on the little boy's forehead.

The anniversary is a national holiday in Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Bahrain, and Pakistan, and typically involves public expressions of mourning.

Many clerics also consider it to be self-harm, which is "haram" - forbidden - in Islam.

Worshippers are instead encouraged to donate blood, with some communities organising donation drives with organisations like the Red Cross.

Other rituals carried on Ashura include mourning processions, recitations of mournful poetry, and services in which the history of the Battle of Karbala is retold.

Last year the festival had notably fewer pilgrims than other years as the United Nations and authorities in Iraq and other Shia-majority countries urged people to celebrate the holiday at home due to the pandemic.

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Islam is peaceful indeed!!!!

If they do this to theirselves, imagine what they will do to you

Who did this to man? Being an atheist is better than believing in this kind of madness and abomination. The OP should have added GRAPHIC PICTURES.

This pipu no regard life oo..We are talking real human blood here, this got to be some serious shit.

Hm.

The devil has really blinded these ones.

illicit:
If they do this to theirselves, imagine what they will do to you

Imagine....


@SENIORWRITER

This is example of bewitching, Jesus is the only solution for mankind

Descendants of ishmael, the sword will be in their hand from Generations to Generations,I swear to God the bible is the only book full of wisdom and knowledge don't underate it.

This is bloody...

But, it's something true believers have to get used to, because Jesus foretold us that some of us were going to killed for His name and gospel sake.

So that we wouldn't stop or get discouraged because of such threats, but would keep going regardless, because we know that our hope is beyond this world.

God bless.

Another of righteousness2 monicker

Back to topic: All these devilish initiation

Blood everywhere in the world why ?

You cut yourself by yourself, still go meet medic for treatment in a make shift tent, coz you're losing blood and paying money in the process... I'm not even being mean or offensive now. Please what's the definition of madness again?

Righteousness2:
This is so Baalish....
The Whole wide world Desperately and Seriously needs JESUS...

Calm down. If the atrocities carried out by your god in your bible were filmed, it'd be worse, gruesome and more gory than these pictures.
1Samuel 15:3
Now go and attack Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and do not spare them. But kill both man and woman, infant and nursing child, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’ ”

Slicing your head due to the belief of a non existent nonentity. smh.
I won't feel bad if many of them died as a result of their ignorance. I only feel sad for those children. Sadly, they'll also grow up to become extremists.

kingxsamz:


Calm down. If the atrocities carried out by your god in your bible were filmed, it'd be worse, gruesome and more gory than these pictures.
1Samuel 15:3
Now go and attack Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and do not spare them. But kill both man and woman, infant and nursing child, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’ ”

Stop being ignorant, you're a couple of months older.