A Mother “Helping” Her Son
- March 13, 2003
- 14 comments
What is up with this?! This is messed up. Below is the caption for the picture…
A Lebanese Shi’ite Muslim mother helps her son beat himself with a sword during a ceremony of Ashoura held in Nabatiyeh, March 13, 2003. Shiites in Lebanon commemorate the killing of Imam Hussein, grandson of the Prophet Mohammed, by his rival over 1,400 years ago. More than 150,000 Lebanese packed the streets of Beirut’s southern suburbs on Thursday, chanting ‘Death to America,death to Israel,’ in a mass rally called by Lebanon’s Hizbollah guerrilla group. REUTERS/Jamal Saidi
Sometimes I wonder if it’s something in the water over there.
Here’s another picture of some Lebanese men cutting their heads in the same ceremony.
Dave
Sarah Cohen
September 22, 2004
fiqah
December 3, 2006
josepe
January 19, 2007
jamie
March 6, 2007
i am not muslim or from lebonon but all i have to say is back off and leav these poor muslims alone i think they have had enough of us americans ad british just let them be .And dont you dare josepe call it the devil religion you racist they can do what they want the only devils here are us british and americans we just dont hve any self respect do we let them practice there religion! its ther choice.
Jamie, read josepe’s comment again. They didn’t call Islam the “devil’s religion”. In fact, they said acts like the one pictured are destroying the religion, so they realize these acts aren’t indicative of true Islam.
By your own definition, your comment could be considered racist. You thought josepe called Islam the devil’s religion, so that makes him a racist. Yet you turn right around and say all Americans and Brits are devils. Sounds pretty racist to me.
Aamir Mustafa
September 26, 2007
roshL
September 8, 2011
Aaron
November 6, 2011
zoe
November 24, 2011
wtf why would you do that yeahits your cultre an i get that but helping your son beat himself with a sord whats the go there… there are people loking at this site an probly saying mum is this okay ?? well its not YOUR SUSPOSE TO BE A MOTHER PROTECT YOUR CHILD FROM DANGER NOT HELP HIM COMMIT DANGER I THINK YOUR RELGION IS BOGUSE YOU SHOULD WEAKE UP AN RELIE WHAT YOU DID IS WORNG!!!!!!
Aamir Dungog
December 17, 2011
Hussein
February 2, 2012
^^Zoe, you have no right to call someones religion, that millions follow “bogus” if you probably know NOTHING AT ALL about it. So how about you go educate yourself and stop making ignorant and spitefull comments. Staghfurrallah. Shame on the writer of this article for trying to slander muslims, lets see you right about the hate crimes in France, who are harrasing muslim women for wearing a hijab(head scarf) and practicing their religion! While NUNS, CATHOLIC NUNS are being praised for they’re modesty, VERY hypocritical…
Shaming Muslims by reposting something from Reuters? Does that mean Reuters should not have posted this picture with caption? If so, take it up with them, not me.
You may have missed it, but this is a personal blog, not a newspaper. This isn’t an article, but a blog post. Look up the definition of the word “slander”. I am not slandering Muslims in this post.
You might have also missed the publish date of this post. It is nearly nine years old. There were no published hate crimes in France against Muslims for wearing the hijab back then. Do you see me praising Catholic nuns anywhere? No. You know nothing about my opinion on Catholics, so do not assume I think highly of them. Take your own advice and stop posting ignorant comments.
And I thought we in America had some strange customs. I guess having rabbits run around and shoot colored eggs out of their butts for children to find on Easter morning, isn’t quite so odd.
About the picture above, I sure hope that is fake blood on that boy, but then again, maybe that is why the amblulance is there in the background.