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‘Every Land is Karbala’: The Globalization of Muharram
by Fahad Desmukh
Here’s a map I’ve made by plotting a bunch of Youtube videos of the rites of the Shia Muslim commemoration of Muharram/Ashura. The embedded map below is a bit small and annoying to use, so click on this link for a full page version of the same. Then click on any of the little blue markers and a youtube video will pop up showing you an example of how the Muharram rites are performed in that part of the world.Click here to read complete article
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I agree : wherever there is injustice or ‘In’ justice is a karbala(w!). We must strive for justice without any personal or personnel considerations.
Born Again Karbala of the Decade is Pakistan. The highest jihad is not murdering innocent people, raping for fun (ask Mrs. Idrees and great Miss Shabnam .. both being victims recd no justice in The Land of The Pure and left/exited/exodused fronm the Country in disgust while the perpetrators flourished by leaps and are flourishing outr of bounds .. things today are far worse), or shopping at Harrods with looted and laundered money (e.g. Beyghum Gill on Hill Muzafargarhvi) .. the greatest jihad is speaking up before powers the Be. Status Quo worshipping is a nono. That is and was the message of Imam Hussain (peace be upon him and God bless his soul) who wanted to migrate to India but not kowtow to prevailing and fashionable Evil and Oppression/Repression/Obsessions.
The quislings of the Arab religion converted the great Persians who are inheritors of an Aryan civilization and an Aryan religion similar to Indians into a bunch of uncivilized head bangers at Muharram. Beware of the same fate when religion of the desert comes calling for quisling converts!!
As if hiob-hiob of original Hiob was not enough, now we have a coward clone popping up from the United States of America.
The entire month of Moharram is the reminder to all muslims of the world that despite being scarcely armed and few in numbers, the members of the Prophet’s family did not bow down against the naked but unjust force of the enemy. The moharram rituals are symbolic but the resistance which the world witnessed yesterday in Iraq and today in Afghanistan is real. Today’s Iranian Govt. is doing no more than confronting head on the evil’s plans in the future against the proud and independent Iran.
Rex Minor
to rex
There is no proud and independent Iran since 1400 years. Since 14 centuries the iranians have become underdogs of an arab god, an arab strongman (so-called final prophet) and an arab imperialism. Their iranian religion, script, language, self-resepect were all destroyed by arab invaders and the iranians are living in this slave state. The present-day rulers of Iran are all agents of arab supremacy and hegemony, in spite of all the quarrels which they may have with some tyrannical and quisling arab rulers.
Even many who call themselve arabs are not arabs but only pseudo-arabs. Their ancestors were non-arabs who came under the boot of islam and arabic imperialism in the 7th, 8th and 9th centuries. The arab sword rules over them and their dignity, world-view and history. Islamic history-writing has always falsified the pertinent narratives so as to enforce arab hegemony. You know that well but pretend to ignore it. Why?
@hiou
be careful, you are moving into a complicated territory. suggest you stick to the quisling club. Todays Iranians have more intellect than their ancestors Also more Iranian women graduate from the universaties than men. Also the top physicians in washington are of Iranian origin and their work involves to look after the health of the American leadership.
Rex Minor
To rex
Today’s iranians have more intellect than their ancestors – when and how did you measure that? Does becoming a quisling of islam increase intellect? Actually it is quite the contrary.
More iranian women are graduating because they are less crazy after islam. Iranian men are being maddened with islam and are more likely to become streetgangsters for some imam or ayatullah. The top iranian physicians in Washington surely resent the shia fascism that has taken over Iran.
hiobL
your argumebnts are self-defeatening if not hypocritical hokus-pokus. God is not a localized phenomenon .. so your referring again and agaiun to anm Arab God maks no sense whatsoever. You claim to be an Indian and an Aryan … aryan emigrated to Greater Bharath and are not indigenous to India.
You should take Rex Minor and my advice. ReVise and rewisen your self.
Otherwise (fast disappearing) intelligentsia may deduce that you are just a discarded Shuddder (‘Untouchable’) who is putting on an act to hide his real ancestory and identity, to wit inferiority realization translATED as superiority KKKomplex for PR purposes.
I hAD suggested that you return to the Subcontinent and take up art criticism, you will flourish (even monetarily as Indic art is enjoyiong a high tide) and the aged dawein a.k.a. Doyenne in Mow Dulltown can be a soothing-source of lot of Honorary Lovemaking .. and your race will flourish at other’s (Nouveaux Riche) expense. This will AID art in the Indic subcontinent … this AIDing started with the invasion of India by Aryans….. ad nauseam!
Shias are shiities!
Is Makkah a holy city? There is no hindu temple or sikh gurudwara or christian church or jewish synagogue or buddhist vihara there. There is no gathering of theosophists or hare krishnas there. There are no debate clubs for atheists and agnostics there. They all cannot practise any open ceremonies or public functions or missionary activity there. So how can Makkah be a holy city? Makkah represents the totalitarianism, fascism, violence, narrow-mindedness, arrogance, conceit, madness and primitivism inherent in islam (=submission =mental slavery). To call Makkah a holy city means to misuse the word “holy” and fool simple-minded human beings and push them to want to live under a monotheistic-totalitarian system. Makkah represents the imperialism of islam and its unholiness and its greed for power, centralization and money. Makkah represents the fooling of non-arabs through arabs. Makkah presents us the tribalist blood-thirst of islam. To refer to god as allah is an insult to god. With the word “allah” is associated arab imperialism, and totalitarianism and fascism. Muslims (even arab muslims) are beginning to realize this. The beginning is slow and painful (as is the case with many beginnings), but soon it will grow in speed, clarity and ease.
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When islam grows then muslim women “voluntarily” and “joyfully” vanish behind the “divine protection” of veils, tents and 4-walls. Later the non-muslim women also come under attack from muslim males with their macho-obscene and lewd remarks and gazes and physical threats. So the non-muslim women too get frightened and disappear into oblivion. All this happens “voluntarily and joyfully” in obedience to allah’s commands.
The worst damage that islam is going to do to mankind is yet to come. That is the islamically caused globalization of damage, destruction and fascism in the name of a 7th century arab god-concept.
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One who criticizes is the true friend – not the one who flatters or praises.
In Makkah there is no temple because there is no Hindu residing there. And there, there is no Caste-System.
Hiob may claim that first build a Temple in Makkah and then some demieuropean Aryans will emigrate to Makkah.
Seems rather illogical, topsey-turvey and far fetched to me.
Pevention is better than cure.
Hiob watch some Charlie Chaplan movies. Your sense of hunmour has gone astray.
hunmour … kindly, read it as humour, or humor in American English lingo.
There is no society on the earth where there is no caste system. Muslims fool themselves and tempt others by claiming islam has no caste system or islam can or intends to eradicate it.
If quislings of islam can reside in Varanasi and Mathura then why can’t jains, buddhists and sikhs (who are all three also hindus by defintion of the word hindu) be allowed to preach, practise and promulgate in Makkah? That will help muslims to escape the totalitarianism-fascism and closed-minded-ness under which islam puts them.
Makkah is the blood- and money-sucker of muslims and non-arabs and non-arab money gets into arab pockets. Because of Makkah and its pretended holiness non-arab muslims are destined to be bootlickers of arabs. Islam was not invited to come to India – islam came through aggressions, robbery, bribery, deceit or bloodshed.
And if so, the trend towards migration to india was shuruvated or begun with aryan migration, they later turned into brahmins. Only a fraction of the muslim populace of the subcontinent are descendants from immigrants, rest converted voluntarily of their own accord and preference. But you cannot convert into brahminism, that indicates fascism off of wicked turf control. Hinduism was more polluted by brahmin rape than Mullah rape interference or inter course with islam. Truth of the matter is that Islam forbids mullahism and maulvi fetishness.
Hiob is harping repeatedly (and boringly) like a broken record of the best-forgotten His Master’s Vice of hubhub, or hiob-hiob.No good muslim boot-licks arabs because their establishment practices are wortrhy of abhorence and rejection.
In the good old days Baba Guru Nanak Ji performed hajj twice, by foot.
Herr Hiob should desist from celebrating his ignorance by abusing PTH as his placid placeBOO. It has started to smell…
Many PHC aficionados have inquired about my neoname. Gunneh has to be pronounced the Iranian way (because I say so, at 4 am) as I am Pakistani of Iranian origin.
GUNNEH = ‘Gunna’ means Sugar Cane. Gun’day’ree’yawn does not mean dormant or yawning gun, it merely means sugarcane bits. Suchcha Sauda is a hamlet-town in Sheihhupura.
SARDAR is an honorific customary title which is prerogative of those antigots who own more than nine acres of valuable agriculture land but won’t kowtow to the legendary butts; nor accept agree culture.
Pun’job is new transliteration of the Punjab since Meon Nawaz SharrReef became Chief Minister circa 1985. He is so cute, when President Ziaul Haq was murdered, Nawaz boasted that he is spiritual son of Zia, he will perpetuate his legacy and find his murderers and inflictb exemplary punishment. He haradsdsed Benazir Bano Bhyutto all his life and now claims she was his sister whose murderers he will arrest when he comes (which is a new myth, caveat and quid pro quo; Peoples’ memories are short) into power. He is the other side of a London pact under which for five years Benazir was to “serve” as Prime Minister and for the next 5-years, ‘No Was Sharief’ family would rule Pakistan.
THAT reminds me that during NS powerbrokering days (and nights marketing, wink, mujra of megamediocrity) Supreme Court was attacked by his goons (Lie detection tests can seminally clear the air as well as the blames!!!.
By the way someone should dare remind Nawazz (before or after throwing the towel!!) that the Sheikhupura, Rawalpindi and Krishen Nagar (ISLAMPURA) heinous MacroMurders took place of innocent denizens without any provocation when he was in power… it is a glaring fact that he could not find those murderers or is keeping the information CONcealed in his soul, or sole … then why should the teaming masses yearning for justice-with-love take his slogans any seriously.