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Iraq: Shi’ite Muslims set fire to TV channel offices for broadcasting music during Ashura

Sep 9, 2020 3:00 pm By Robert Spencer 32 Comments

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 […]

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Filed Under: Featured, France, Jihadist intimidation and thuggery, Sharia Tagged With: Ashura, Baghdad, Dijlah

Shi’ite Muslims worldwide mark Ashura by slicing their heads open, and those of their children

Sep 13, 2019 12:00 pm By Robert Spencer

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 […]

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Filed Under: Eurabia Tagged With: Ashura, Karbala

Video: Bare-chested Shi’ite self-flagellation reaches the streets of Toronto

Sep 26, 2018 10:51 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

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 […]

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Filed Under: Canada, Featured Tagged With: Ashura, Toronto

Bangladesh: Islamic State claims bombings of Shi’ite Ashura procession that murdered one person and wounded dozens

Oct 24, 2015 11:36 am By Robert Spencer

“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, […]

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Filed Under: Bangladesh, Featured, Islamic State (aka ISIS, ISIL, Daesh), Sunni-Shi'ite Jihad Tagged With: Ashura

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