A Sufi festival in India is marked by devoted Muslims poking out their eyeballs with knives.
“Thousands of Sufi Muslims make pilgrimages from across the country” to attend the historic festival annually, and it is “the largest Sufi festival held in the country during the seventh month of the Islamic calendar based on moon sightings and people of all faiths are welcome to take part.” However, many may be alarmed by the eyeball popping. The practice is deemed to be an act of religious devotion, where “men have been photographed sticking swords into their eyeballs to make them pop out and tongues as well as piercing their cheeks and backs.”
Most Westerners cannot fathom the concept of anyone engaging in such egregious self-harm as a show of devotion to a god. These individuals are deemed normal and devout, which should lead authorities to question the mentality of some of the people who are entering Western countries.
It isn’t only Sufis who engage in self-harm as an act of worship and devotion. Many Shia Muslims slice open their heads with swords during the annual Ashura observance. Children are also often made to partake in the gruesome ritual, encouraged by their parents.
All cultures are not equal or compatible with Western free societies. The concept of shedding one’s own blood or the blood of others in an act of religious worship is unacceptable in Judeo-Christian culture.
“A sight for sore eyes! Sufi Muslim devotees poke out their eyeballs with knives as part of religious procession for the annual Urs festival in India,” by Chris Matthews, MailOnline, January 29, 2022:
A festival started in India today that was marked by devoted Muslims poking out their eyeballs with knives.
The Urs festival is held every year in Ajmer, a city in India’s Rajasthan state.
It is a memorial to the death of Sufi saint Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti, who established the Chishtiya Sufi order in the country around 800 years ago.
The festival will last for another five days, and features devotees performing stunts such as making their eyeballs bulge while flags are raised.
Unlike other branches of Islam, Sufis devote themselves to particular saints.
It is a concept other strands of Islam do not always recognise.
It traces its principles from the prophet Muhammad through his cousin and son-in-law Ali ibn Abi Talib.
Sufis believe they are practising ihsan, the perfection of worship, as revealed by Angel Gabriel to Muhammad……
Derek says
They would go to any length to strike terror and disgust in non believers and use this fallout to play victim card.
mortimer says
This testifies to the faith of this religious stuntman. Just imagine what atrocities they are prepared to visit upon their perceived enemies!
gravenimage says
Spot on, Mortimer.
Hank says
I guess Muslims have redefined the meaning of an “eye-popping” event. Its in line with other wicked extraordinary practices like Female Genital Mutilation, et al.
Muslims need not to do any virtue signaling today as seen here, as infidels are getting quite familiar with Mr. Mohammed and his virtues (Except for Trudeau, Ardent, Biden, Sturgeon and peers).
European pagan says
Oh nooo 🙈🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
PMK says
That picture is gruesome. The very idea is revolting. Self-denial is one thing but self-mutilation is the perfection of worship? Exactly what are they trying to prove?
Then again, we have God calling on Abraham and his male family members to cut off the flesh of their foreskin.
mortimer says
Sufism is often (wrongly) thought by Westerners to be a ‘moderate’ form of Islam. It is not ‘moderate’ as the photo proves. In fact, Sufis are praised for their fanatical ferocity in jihadic warfare against the dirty kufaar.
Sufi fanaticism has been sought in war leaders of the past. Many of the great Islamic warlords have been Sufis.
– from Sufi scholar Ahmad Sirhindi (1564-1624): “The honour of Islam lies in INSULTING kufr and kafirs. One who respects the kafirs dishonours the Muslims… The real purpose of levying jiziya on them is to HUMILIATE them to such an extent that they may not be able to dress well and to live in grandeur. They should constantly remain TERRIFIED and TREMBLING. It is intended to hold them under CONTEMPT and to uphold the honour and might of Islam.”
Infidel says
The ‘saint’ who this ‘shrine’ is dedicated to – Qhwaja Moinudin Chisti – was actually not a saint. He was a general of a conquering jihadist army that captured this city, destroyed hundreds of temples, slaughtered cows daily outside temples and according to some accounts, gangraped the young queen of the slain king killing her
https://www.opindia.com/2020/06/islamic-jihad-india-sufi-khwaja-moinuddin-chisti-garib-nawaz-nizamuddin-khilji-hindus-forced-conversions
gravenimage says
True, Mortimer. Nothing “moderate” about this.
And Infidel, thank you for that link.
JimJFox says
Hilarious! Lunatics following a lunatic so-called religion.
Roland says
Stupifying! There is no way to repair this kind of mutilation.
somehistory says
Now the physically blind can let the State care for all their physical needs because they are now disabled in body as they already were in mind and spirit.
This is satan’s religion, worship of the demon snake.
James Lincoln says
somehistory,
In a sane world, disability payments are usually excluded if intentional acts caused the disability.
https://www.longtermdisabilitylawyer.com/2016/08/common-disability-insurance-policy-exclusions-limitations/
somehistory says
Where is the “sane” world today, James? mozlums seem able to get whatever they want…Just look at all of the terrorists among them who get housing, free attorney, and don’t get deported, etc.
James Lincoln says
Grimly so, somehistory.
Yogi says
And this shit our stupid politicians importing to civilization Europe, North America , it’s just despicable..
john smith says
As long as it’s their own blood they shed and their own eyes they pop out, I couldn’t care less, I say, let them get on with it.
tim gallagher says
Holy shit! How sick is that. And as if life isn’t often already difficult enough. And this self mutilation is supposed to be “perfection of worship”. I can’t understand this mentality, of the logic of this complete bullshit in any way whatsoever. So there is supposed to be a sadistic god, a sort of Marquis de Sade type of god, who wants people to suffer during this vile process and then be blind for the rest of their lives. Just when you think Islam can’t surprise you anymore with its evil ways, you then find out about crap like this. Imagine thinking it is OK to let lunatics like this into our countries. Yeah, they are just what we want in the search for endless diversity in our societies.
Keith O says
Yeah pretty screwed up isn’t it.
Then again this sort of self harm isn’t restricted to Islam.
Check out the crucifixion rituals in the Philippines on Good Friday! Now that is sickening.
tim gallagher says
I haven’t seen the crucifixion rituals in the Philippines, Keith O, but I have seen them whipping themselves there on a TV news report of some such thing. It seems really sick to me, but I am a softer kind of Christian who relies on God being a loving God, which is the main theme in Christianity as far as I can see. So there is no way I’m thinking that any of this crap, whether the Sufis or the over the top self punishing by Christians in the Philippines seems anything but really “off” to me. The Muslim version of what god might happen to be like seems like a very nasty, downright evil, creature and I think that there is no love in that version of what god is. If god does exist and is the nasty, bloodthirsty creature that Muslims believe in, then I would have to tell such a god to bugger off, because that type of god deserves nothing but contempt from all people. Whether there is a God or not, and what this God might be like is something we’ll all find out one day..
Keith O says
Pretty much Tim, any “God” that inspires humans to harm themselves or others is a bit on the nose or more than likely the nasty influence is on the part of twisted humans who have perverted the concepts that were originally brought forth to inspire the religion.
One way or another, we will all find out the truth of the matter eventually.
Till then, I’ll stay in the service of the Goddess.
tim gallagher says
Yep, that’s it, Keith O. We’ll all find out one day. The Muslim god has to be just about the most revolting and evil version of god ever, well, at least among religions that still exist. I think the old Aztec religion and a few others that are now gone, were right up there with islam in the evil stakes.
Mateen says
Let’s take a vote. Does this story not support the notion that Islam is a dehumanizing and degenerative religion? All in favor? The eyes have it!
gravenimage says
Grimly hilarious, Mateen!
Prince Eugene says
Do you object to diverse opinions of faith? Can you appreciate the concept of egregious self-harm as a show of devotion to a god? Anyone who dares to question these antics is branded an Islamophobe unworthy to participate in our post-modern liberal culture.
Jaydam says
Think of the benefits if all muslims were encouraged to go down the “Blind” route, and that would be a huge blessing in disguise. A kind of 21st centruy version of the blind leading the blind, one could say.
Then Islam will very quickly become a total irrelevance, and historians will look back in years to come, and write that Islam was the dumbest ( religion / ideology ) that was ever known to mankind.
Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says
“The concept of shedding one’s own blood is unacceptable in Judeo-Christian culture.”
Ya hear that, Rabbi Joshua?
gravenimage says
India: Sufi Muslims poke out their eyeballs with swords and sticks during Islamic religious procession
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Appalling. And in Shia festivals Muslims don’t just harm themselves, but *cut open the heads of babies*. Sick stuff.
Hank says
A Tree Is Known by Its Fruit
“For a good tree does not bear bad fruit, nor does a bad tree bear good fruit. For every tree is known by its own fruit. For men do not gather figs from thorns, nor do they gather grapes from a bramble bush. (Luke 6:43-44)
Not very rational that Western leaders should import and distribute the Islamic mindset into non-Muslim societies by the millions and millions. An eye-popping event like this should be an eye-opener to Western leaders to start deporting and repatriating the illegal Muslim Migration invasion (Hijra) back to Arabia and dismantle Mosques. It should also be an eye-opener to Muslims around the world to get out of Islam.
“Bring the help there, not the problem here” Hungarian PM Viktor Orban
OLD GUY says
Why would any country want to bring these muslim/islamic people to their country. STOP the muslim/islamic migration invasion NOW, the cost for helping these people to our society and communities is too high.