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[ls317]

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/01/30/ashoura.children.ap/index.html


NABATIYEH, Lebanon (AP) -- The 6-year-old boy screamed and shook his head to avoid the razor blade. But his father held him firmly as Hajj Khodor parted the boy's black hair and sliced his forehead three times with the blade.

Ali Madani's cries became more violent as blood gushed from the wound, covering his small, terrified face.

His father and a few other men, waving daggers, broke into a religious chant, recalling how the 7th-century Shiite Muslim saint, Imam Hussein, was decapitated, his head placed on a lance

[BeHereNow]

1. Yeah, let's DEMONIZE the brown people for their religious practices!

Shall we discuss what some people do to infant gentials born into the Jewish faith as well?
You know, just to keep it "fair and balanced?":sarcasm:
I hate this sort of propaganda.

BHN

[ls317]

2. Good point

[BeHereNow]

6. Prepare to see more of it, about IRAN.

To ratchet up the "Hatred for Brown People" we are going to see
more stories like this-
"The barbarians, killing rape victims, cutting off the hands of thieves etc..."
Count on it.
They are shameless, the corpoRATe news whores.
As Zappa said, tools of the government and industry too.
In this case, the corporate congressional military industry.

BHN

[uppityperson]

4. That issue has been discussed, at length, frequently.

Just because someone saya they look askance at 1 practice and does not mention the other brazillion they also look askance at does not mean they do not look askance at those other brazillion.

[BeHereNow]

8. Agreed, but that is not the point I am interested in-

I am interested in assured blast we can expect from the
corporate owned networks about the barbaric "brown people"
in the ME as the neocons line up their war ships.
Trust me, we are going to see an influx of
brown people doing bad things to drum up public
support for the pending attack on Iran.
Mark my words.

BHN:mad:

[uppityperson]

13. Yup, there is that tendency and esp now.

[cynatnite]

7. Are you saying circumcision and this is the same?

I deplore organized religion of all kinds, but slashing a six year old's face and circumcising an infant is hardly the same, IMO.

I do agree this report certainly furthers demonizes Islam even more.

[BeHereNow]

12. The demonization is the point- not the practice.

I could give a crap what the various nut cases in the world do-
my point is that the media will begin to release more stories
like this to drum up public support for attacking more
sovereign nations in the middle east by portraying the majority
through what is I'm sure, a small minority of the people.

BHN

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

3. The cultural practices of some

Kindly refer to these sentences from the story cited above:

Lebanon's top Shiite cleric, Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, has banned bloodletting during Ashura, even for adults.

Clerics in mainly Shiite Iran forbid it as well, saying the practice is un-Islamic because it harms the body.

[BigNeeravT]

5. This is why I don't trust organized religion.

This practice is inhumane, iand is why I distrust oprganized religion period!



DEATH TO ORGANIZED RELIGION!

[rgbecker]

10. Time to read up on this topic!

AM working on "The End of Faith" by Sam Harris. He has an interesting slant on this very issue. Wacko zealots and what are we going to do about 'em. My niece, teaching in Bahrain (sp), reports from a tour of the local Mosque, the blood is running down their faces as they "memorialize" the death of some guys 1400 years ago!
I say move to plan B. Get out, say we're sorry and send reparations.

[jannyk]

9. How is that any different to cutting off his

foreskin with a cigar cutter in front of invited guests?

[HysteryDiagnosis]

11. What did the Native Americans do to secure the genocide that was

performed on them??? I mean, while we are at it... then again, aren't the perverts in Congress mostly white men???