Ashura: A Plague Upon Iran

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The literal meaning of the word “Ashura” is 10th, as it is on the 10th day of Islamic month Muharram. Also, Muharram is the first month of an Islamic year. During my teens in Iran, I called Muharram the month of terror. For two days, I used to lock myself in the basement of the house to read my books or listen to my favorite music. I simply could not witness the savagery and ritual barbarism of Ashura of Shia Islam. This savagery continued for two days.

History tells us when Muhammad left this world, he did not leave behind a will, something for his co-savages to adhere to. Even though Muhammad was illiterate, he could have asked someone from his tribe to write and instruct that who would be next in line to lead his Islamic Ummah when he died. In my opinion, his carelessness regarding something this important reveals what kind man he was. Well, the infighting for leadership between the Islamic tribes begun.

Shias claimed that Muhammad verbally indicated that Ali was to lead his Ummah. Well, 90% of Sunni Muslims say, no he did not, and the Caliphate system was the way to go. Shortly after Muhammad’s death, the fourth of the “Rashidun” (Great) Caliphs, Ali ibn Abu Talib was killed by Ibn Muljam. But rumors assert a different version of this story. It says that a Persian warrior by the name of Brahman Jaziyah killed Ali, avenging the death of numberless Persians that Ali and his people had slaughtered.

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Violence was part and parcel of Islam from the get-go. Then there was a battle between the forces of the powerful Yazid, son of Mu’awiya, and Hussein, the third son of Ali.

Yazid wanted Hussein to give him an oath of allegiance. Hussein’s stubbornness and pride prevented him from doing so, and instead, he refused to, despite his life being at risk.

Hussein traveled with his family and 72 companions to defend his honor. So a real fight was joined. On the one side was Yazid with his mighty army and wealth, and on the other side was Hussein. Hussein tried to start a dialogue with his adversary, Yazid.

After several warnings from Yazid that he was no match for his 10,000-strong army, Hussein stubbornly refused to relinquish his claim to the powerful Yazid, and so Hussein ended up with his head cut off by Shimr, impaled on a spear and presented to Yazid as a trophy. Along with Hussein, his band of relatives-followers got butchered. Well, friends, that’s the nature of the beast called war.

That day when Hussein’s head was cut off is known as Ashura. To this day, Shias bloody themselves, their children, even their babies with self-flagellation in a most horrid way in aza dari  (mourning) for what happened to Hussein. Now 1400 years have passed since that bloody war. What good does this do, other than perpetuate a sense of defeatism and fanaticism?

This infighting was between to two Arabs, two enemies of Persians. Iranians should free themselves of the yoke of the conniving mullahs. In fact, Hussein’s decree to murder and enslave the “inferior Iranians” has been recorded in history, but is kept a secret from the average Iranian Muslim — part of the culture of deceit that is built into Islam. Yet Iranians are told by the mullahs to go out during the month of Ashura and beat themselves over the death of Hussein, Iran’s sworn enemy! The long-suffering Iranian people must put the past behind them and use their excellent talents to not only join the advanced world, but lead it. What a shame to remain stuck in this horrid mentality of victimization.

Iranians truly don’t have a dog in this savage fight. In fact, they should rid themselves of all Islamic stains, Shia, Sunni, or whatever, and with it stop playing the victims of one power or another. Playing victim may give psychological relief, but doesn’t solve any problems on the ground. And problems of the ground we have aplenty.

This story has absolutely nothing to do with Iranians who are forced by the mullahs every year to beat themselves for an Arab man who was a killer of Iranian people, Hussein. But this ritual was semi-banned during the Shah’s time. Khomeini revived it, and explicitly told the mullahs that these Shia rituals had kept the Shiite sect alive. So every year, the Islamic government spent millions of dollars to keep Shi’ism alive.

In a nutshell, Ashura was a day when two Arab terrorists went to war together over power. One of them died, and ever since Iranians have been beating themselves for their killers to play the victim. This game has been forced upon Iranians for 1,400 years. Fortunately, many affluent and middle class Iranians never participate in this savagery of Shia Islam.

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Alleged-Comment
Alleged-Comment
5 years ago

With Mouslems YOU must be sacrificed. With Christianity Yahusha is sacrificed for YOU.

This is grace, this is truth, this isTRUE love. Mouslems don’t have any of this. They are FOOL of hate!

Stephen Honig
Stephen Honig
5 years ago

It’s evil fighting evil.

leonore35
leonore35
5 years ago

They are not the only people who self flagellate. Christian monks used to do it also and I believe certain Hindu sects. Just one more example of the insanity of religion. In spite of what the religious claim a world without religion would be a much better and safer place

delilahdriver
delilahdriver
5 years ago
Reply to  leonore35

I recall reading once that if Man had somehow gotten this far without any religion at all, that our world would be so very different and scientifically advanced that someone suddenly showing up with a Holy Bible, Koran, Torah or whatever book would quite naturally be regarded as mentally ill.

Strangerinastangeland
Strangerinastangeland
5 years ago
Reply to  delilahdriver

Odd, most people who can read know the Church saved the written word and the limited libraries after the fall of Rome.

Strangerinastangeland
Strangerinastangeland
5 years ago
Reply to  leonore35

Oh, like communist Russia, or communist Venezuela. No wait, I know the answer, like Nazi Germany. Do I win?

Pathfinder0100
Pathfinder0100
5 years ago
Reply to  leonore35

Well leonore Christianity gave us morals. We took Christ outta America and now we’ve got Kids killin’ kids. Guess that doesn’t count with ya tho. Sad.

Joan C.
Joan C.
5 years ago
Reply to  Pathfinder0100

Agree!

Jay Wizzy
Jay Wizzy
5 years ago

It’s the same thing with Hitler.
Hitler who mass-murdered in Europe, Israel & North-Africa assisted by the Grandmufti of Jerusalem Mohamed Haj Amin El-Husseini & viewed the unjust Muhammadism as ultimate Nazi religion that as he told his architect & minister of war Albert Speer matches the German temperament better, is being presented the world over as hero & the Muhammadists infiltrating Non-muhammadist welfare governments through mass-migration are playing their role in substantiating the commemorating effect of Hitler-idolization.
Many Nazi criminals openly converted to the unjust Muhammadism after the 2. world-war & worked for the Egyptian Muhammadist regime under Nasser or in Syria.
Nazi-SS commander Otto Skorzeny for example who freed Mussolini from a prison in Gran Sasso moved to Cairo after the war & instructed the Intelligence Services of the Muhammadist tyranny under Nasser.
Meanwhile girls worldwide undergo the lifelong torture of having their clitoris cut off according to the unjust Muhammad-law, atheists & other Non-muhammadists are being killed or locked up & tortured, Non-muhammadists mass-murdered & Africans enslaved from Saudi Arabia to Mauritania in emulation of unjust Muhammad who started the global African slave-trade by saying his unproven deity had turned Africans black so the African’s descendants would be slaves to Arabs & Turks.
We need a government that teaches the truth about the world & abolishes the unjust Muhammad-law worldwide.

John Acord
John Acord
5 years ago

Persia could once again become a great nation,but it must first purge itself of every vestige of Islam.

R. Arandas
R. Arandas
5 years ago
Reply to  John Acord

Indeed, Islam has ruined their civilization, just like it did so many others.

Cassandra
Cassandra
5 years ago

Thank you for the historical backstory to this.
I actually witnessed this when I lived in Forest Gate, east London. The powers that be permitted the men to do this out in the street, protected by a ring of police.

notislam
notislam
5 years ago

This bloody and disgusting display of hateful nazi0islam needs to wake the sleeping infidels up. Don’t they see how this SICK act adds to the savagery of islam? This here is good reason islam needs to be destroyed. Do we ever see this sick display in the USA. Islam seems to delight in bloody -public -acts to show how evil they really are.

Michael Copeland
Michael Copeland
5 years ago
Reply to  notislam

It will come to USA. Some judge will rule that it is Constitutionally protected.

Pathfinder0100
Pathfinder0100
5 years ago

Sad but true Mike!

notislam
notislam
5 years ago

NOW AND THE sooner the better! Crush and cook islam to ashes!

Patriotliz
Patriotliz
5 years ago

“Violence was part and parcel of Islam from the get-go.” We know this…Muslims kill other Muslims; Muslims kill themselves; Muslims kill non-Muslims…all in the name of Allah. The only solution for any Muslim is to become an apostate (it’s NOT an ethnicity!) at least for those who are lucky enough to reside in the West particularly non-practicing Muslims, Muslim dissidents and heretical Muslims. If all Western Muslims who don’t reject Islam in toto are passively continuing tolerance for this intrinsically violent ideology founded by a violent and despicable man.
Amil, why don’t you put your money where your pen is and at least work diligently to outlaw the “practice of religion” by Muslims in the West which includes self-flagellation, FGM, honor killing, child marriages, killing of apostates and blasphemers and any physical punishment for violating stinking Sharia law…o/w what is the point of criticizing your own religion that you don’t even have the courage to renounce?
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Michael Copeland
Michael Copeland
5 years ago
Reply to  Patriotliz

Amil Imani has renounced Islam.
He offers a $100,000 reward for any imam to disprove his unflattering claims – all based on Islamic sources – about Mohammed. No-one has stepped forward.
Amil is working to expose Islam as untenable. Recommend him to your friends.

Patriotliz
Patriotliz
5 years ago

Are you sure he’s an ex-Muslim? He’s a dissident, undoubtedly a heretic and a “non-practicing Muslim” Muslim. I don’t think he’s an ex-Muslim apostate like Bosch Fawstin. Got any link that says he’s an ex-Muslim? We got into a personal exchange on this issue when I posted on another one of his articles.
I challenged his article and he called me “Dummy” (which has been deleted) and he said “not all Muslims practice Islam, thank God.” So he thinks its OK to self-identify as a Muslim even if you “don’t practice Islam”…I guess he’s afraid of being put to death by his fellow coreligionists in the West. He wanted me to call him to talk w/ him directly…can you believe that? I don’t trust any Muslim who isn’t an ex-Muslim because being a Muslim, who nonetheless rejects Islam but wants to self-identify as a Muslim, still perpetuates tolerance of Islam in the West. How do you sort them out? So doing WWII there may have been German Nazis who rejected Nazism but still wanted to self-identify as a Nazi—don’t think that would have helped them migrate to the West after the War. After 9/11 and thousands of additional deaths of infidels since then why do we tolerate those who identify as Muslim, aka, IslamoNazi? Why would they even want to self-identify as a Muslim…aren’t they thoroughly embarrassed, remorseful and ashamed of themselves and the ideology they choose to identify with?
http://b1ff5939f6.nxcli.net/2018/12/why-do-we.html/#comment-4242026705

evangeline golding
evangeline golding
5 years ago

He shouldn’t have to work very hard.
The pictures say it all.

Hans Wellington
Hans Wellington
5 years ago

I don’t think he will have any success with that offer since those suckers can extract far more money out of their stupid followers then that.

Dajjal
Dajjal
5 years ago

Good history lesson!! Feb. 1 is #WorldHijabDay , how will you celebrate it? I have made two blog posts and several Twitter posts #NotFreeInHijab .

felix1999
felix1999
5 years ago
Reply to  Dajjal

I don’t celebrate anything Muslim related.

Pathfinder0100
Pathfinder0100
5 years ago

Today would be good!!

Hans Wellington
Hans Wellington
5 years ago

Riyadh would be another good target to take care of.

Dan Knight
Dan Knight
5 years ago

Sick …

R. Arandas
R. Arandas
5 years ago
Reply to  Dan Knight

And to think that their children will one day pass on this “noble” tradition to their own sons and daughters! Chilling!

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