“Make ready for them all that you can of force and of warhorses, so that by them you may strike terror in the enemy of Allah and your enemy…” (Qur’an 8:60) “Death toll rises to 6 in attack on Shia pilgrimage site in Syria,” EFE, July 28, 2023 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): Beirut, […]
Iraq: Shi’ite Muslims set fire to TV channel offices for broadcasting music during Ashura
Islamic apologists in the West frequently boast of what they claim to be high levels of piety and morality in majority-Muslim countries, as opposed to the galloping decadence of the post-Christian West. In all too many cases, however, that piety and morality is a manifestation of a fear of actions like this one. It is […]
Shi’ite Muslims worldwide mark Ashura by slicing their heads open, and those of their children
We have seen this in Britain, Atlanta, Toronto, and elsewhere in the West. If someone wants to cut his head and stalk down the street with the blood streaming down, that’s his business, I suppose. It isn’t illegal. But others are likewise free to find it unnerving, disgusting, and possibly a danger to the public […]
Video: Bare-chested Shi’ite self-flagellation reaches the streets of Toronto
For many years now, a medieval ritual is being enacted by Muslims on the streets of Canada to mourn the murder 1,400 years ago of Prophet Muhammad’s grandson Hussain Ibn Ali in the Iraqi city of Karbala……This year, the self-flagellation ritual reached a point when last Sunday hundreds of young men took off their shirts […]
Bangladesh: Islamic State claims bombings of Shi’ite Ashura procession that murdered one person and wounded dozens
“Soldiers of the Caliphate in Bangladesh” claimed that they had planted the bombs among the “polytheists in the city of Dhaka, during the holding of their polytheist rituals.” However, Quamrul Islam, Bangladeshi’s food minister, insists that “there is no existence of Islamic State in Bangladesh.” Quamrul Islam may just be trying to minimize the problem, […]