“Infidels,” or non-Muslims—or those who are not Muslim enough or the wrong kinds of Muslims—are often seen as the natural recipients of Islamic violence as prescribed by Islamic law, or Sharia.
Few, however, are aware that Sharia can cause individual Muslims to do violence upon themselves.
According to France24, on January 15, a Muslim boy in Pakistan “cut off his own hand believing he had committed blasphemy, only to be celebrated by his parents and neighbours for the act.”
After an imam told a mosque gathering after Friday prayers that those who love Muhammad always say their prayers, he rhetorically asked if anyone present doesn’t pray. Mohammad Anwar, the overly eager 15-year-old boy, impulsively raised his hand, apparently thinking that the imam was asking who among the crowd does, as opposed to doesn’t, pray.
The response was typical: “The crowd swiftly accused him [the boy] of blasphemy so he went to his house and cut off the hand he had raised, put it on a plate, and presented it to the cleric.”
On his way back to the imam, the boy was “greeted by villagers in the street as his parents proclaim[ed] their pride” in the young Mohammad for amputating his blasphemous appendage.
Although this story received some media attention, it is not aberrant. In 2013, Ali Afifi, then 28-years-old, told his story, which appeared primarily on Arabic language media. A practicing Muslim in Egypt, Ali cut off both his hands to punish himself for, and prevent himself from, stealing. He had been stealing since childhood and couldn’t stop, or, as he put it, couldn’t overcome “the devil’s whisperings.”
He went to several Islamic clerics asking them to cut off his hand “in accordance with Islamic Sharia” (normative Islamic law calls for the amputation of the hands of thieves, see Koran 5:38). They refused, saying they didn’t have the authority and that he should find those responsible for such issues.
So Ali took matters into his own hands (pun unintended). One day he placed his left hand on a train track and waited for the locomotive… Keep reading

Westman says
What are we to make of it? Apparently, an unstable, barely intelligent mind, is impressed by Islam of its unworthiness at every turn; the slave reminded that he only exists for Allah’s whim to place him in Jannah or Hell, the bias being toward Hell for the slightest infraction. Forgiveness is only a mutilation or martyrdom away.
Meanwhile the intelligent minds, the best actors, use Islam to control the less intelligent, placing themselves in the administrative heirarchy or employing its ready-made invectives to accuse and destroy opposition to advancement. Islamic War is deceit because Islam is deceit.
It seems that the true devotion of mutilation for Allah is inversely proportional to intelligence. How many mutilated Imams can be found?
Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says
So he severed both hands to keep himself from stealing. Is this form of Islamic seppuku really effective? Won’t both his hands be replaced by hooks, making it even easier for him to shop”lift”? Maybe he should have consulted with this authority:
http://i1.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article3433239.ece/ALTERNATES/s615/Abu-Hamza.jpg
Angemon says
I don’t really care that muslims mutilate themselves. It’ s when they start mutilating non-muslims that gets me irked.
gravenimage says
Raymond Ibrahim: When Muslims Mutilate Themselves for Allah
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Yes–Muslims are driven to mutilate themselves for Allah. Even more horrifying, they are driven to mutilate *others* for Allah, as well.
One important point regarding this grotesque story is that villagers and the Imam–despite the fact that this boy was known to be a devout Muslim–were persuing the boy as a “blasphemer” before he mutilated himself.
As horrifying as this story is, the boy might have been beaten to death by the mob if he *hadn’t* cut off his hand.
God, I hate Islam.
Dave J says
Yes, these people are nuts. Especially the “proud parents”.
Absolutely grotesque.
BC says
As I have said many times religion induces delusional behaviour and sometimes insanity. Islam induces psychpathology.
dumbledoresarmy says
The devout mohammedan mobsters who chop off the heads of others have already – figuratively speaking – chopped off their own heads… (the seat of thought, reason, imagination) and chopped out their own hearts (that is, they have suppressed or erased the capacity for empathy).
In a very real sense they kill themselves in order to become the walking dead, zombies programmed with the Islam Program (= the Sunnah of Mohammed).
gordon miller says
It’s hard to look at this young man. This is 7th century behavior. What a shame!
Peter Brock says
‘(A)llah-ism’ is demon-possession, demon-inspired, etc.
Why do credible, literate folk elevate “it” to such respectable caricature cloaked with rationalism?
It is a self-same deception! And, blindness to try to find some benevolent r-a-t-i-o-n-a-l-i-s-m that will finally turn on the lights and the demonic will suddenly recognize their evil nature and …repent!
Ain’t happening!
Clue: Any and “all” isms have to do with unregenerate MAN!
Rather, such “rationalism” justifies the dark, slimy recesses within ourselves!
Lioness says
One can never be too devout when it comes to islam, so hopefully there will more self mutilations for the sake of allah. A jihadi with chopped off hands is preferable to an intact jihadi. Chopped off head, is even better.
wallace says
UK patients will soon be able to get hand transplants on the NHS, an excellent opportunity for a shrewd Saudi entrepeneur to get into the hand export business, once we become fully Sharia compliant over here it could prove quite lucrative, maybe need a little payment to one of the bearded ones to come up with a fatwa making re-attaching limbs halal, and allah knows best .
Mark says
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