Cutting bodies for faith
How does a fanatic express his pietism? By a blood-letting sacrifice. First he spills his blood by an act of transgression that desintegrates his shallow existence, then he bolsters his insensitivity to the hurt of his victims drowning in the pool of their own blood...
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/210021/Muslims-cut-bodies-for-faith
They may practice in their eyes ascetism, though there are other roads of ascetism to take, without loud demonstrative and violent excess, which feels like a carnaval of pleasures reversed in its core objective.
They drill their bodies beyond the fears and anxiety that a common person holds captive and prevents him to throw himself into the flames and into annihilation, establishing a mindscape where life is no longer an end to itself, a concern that now can be laid off to device actions which take no reservation to burn another life than one's own. Just like a soldier is drilled to relinquish his reservation to take another life, though not prompted by self-preservation, by self-defence, but in order to follow instructions and a higher goal.
It is in their case not as innocently pious as it looks. Such people who grow over the innate resistance to harm their body, to ignore the inflicted pain levels and the mutilation, have no qualms to harm others if it serves their ideology.
It is one symptom of a larger sickness typified by their fanaticism to their creed.
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/210021/Muslims-cut-bodies-for-faith
Islamic fanatics are mutilating themselves at a British mosque in a bloody ceremony carried out only yards from a busy high street.
Shia Muslims use a five-bladed chain called a Zanjeer to whip their own backs and make cuts in their foreheads with razor blades in homage to their faith.
Bare-chested men were left bleeding heavily during the ritual known as Matam – self-flagellation – which a witness described as being “like a scene from a horror film”.
They may practice in their eyes ascetism, though there are other roads of ascetism to take, without loud demonstrative and violent excess, which feels like a carnaval of pleasures reversed in its core objective.
They drill their bodies beyond the fears and anxiety that a common person holds captive and prevents him to throw himself into the flames and into annihilation, establishing a mindscape where life is no longer an end to itself, a concern that now can be laid off to device actions which take no reservation to burn another life than one's own. Just like a soldier is drilled to relinquish his reservation to take another life, though not prompted by self-preservation, by self-defence, but in order to follow instructions and a higher goal.
It is in their case not as innocently pious as it looks. Such people who grow over the innate resistance to harm their body, to ignore the inflicted pain levels and the mutilation, have no qualms to harm others if it serves their ideology.
It is one symptom of a larger sickness typified by their fanaticism to their creed.
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