This image has gotten more retweets than anything else I’ve posted. Love the guy whose response is “f*ck off.” Brilliant! I’m sure the little girls whose lives are ruined by this indoctrination will benefit from such enlightened comments. [/sarc]
Pat Condell retweeted my post, which led to over 100 RTs and many “favorites.”
A delightful religious festival coming soon to a neighborhood near you? pic.twitter.com/UiltFLnThe
— Religion and History (@AcharyaS) April 4, 2014
One “joke” caption reads, “Muslim girls on their way to meet their husbands.”
The Shiite Muslim holiday represented here is apparently Ashura, possibly in Lebanon, as here:
Shia Muslims Practice Self-Flagellation and Walk on Fire Prior to Ashura
The caption on a similar image – of women, not little girls – reads:
Muslim Shi’ite women, chained to each other, march during a re-enactment of the battle of Kerbala during a mourning process in Saksakieh village, in southern Lebanon, on Dec. 4.
Ashura is the same festival during which babies and little boys’ heads are cut open, as here:
Some elements of this holiday are being celebrated already in the U.S., as in Georgia:
http://youtu.be/SQevGMHVVf4
Further Reading
Pakistan: Council of Islamic Ideology declares women’s existence anti-Islamic