Let’s have no more hateful talk of “savages” or “savagery.” Who are we to judge? Every man and woman has a right to worship his Creator in any way they want. Jews fast, Christians have ashes applied their foreheads, and Muslims…well…they do their thing too.
Here are scenes from yesterdays festivities surrounding the Islamic holy day of Ashura – a Muslim holiday when the whole family gets in on the fun. Oh, BTW, Ashura’s quaint customs have made their contribution to our culture too. It’s the origin of the idiom “whipping oneself into a frenzy.”
Were it not for PC and our quick-off-the-mark hate police, I would suggest that these people are savages!
And then there are the idiots down in South America/Mexico who insist on getting not-quite-entirely strung up on/nailed to a a cross every year, and the monks down throughout the ages who whipped their own shoulders…?