Muslims in western India have been observing a bizarre ritual - they've been throwing their young children off a tall building to improve their health. The faithful have been observing the ritual at a shrine in Solapur, in western India's Maharastra, for more than five hundred years. They believe it will make their children strong and say no accidents have ever happened.
(click on link for video)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/0...u_n_99587.html
Well those babies appear no worse for the wear; but if you are considering this for your daughter, Peewee, it's probably not necessary. I read this story on a different site this AM, but I liked your link better because underneath it had this:
Official Tearfully Admits He Sniffed Female Lawmaker's Chairseat
What a perv!
Worked for the Spartans.
Dropped as a child? I didn't know Sequ was Indian????
Dang. I didn't know all these teenage wannabe hip-hop stars in our schools were from India.
He's not, but it sure explains Fillmoe.
I love how the guy catching the babies tosses them around like loaves of bread.
that joke would have been funny if it was aimed at e20... hes the muslim not me... get your facts straight you racist...
do all black people look the same to you too?
Indians are Hindu.
gotta love ignorance
That's like saying Americans are Christian.
PLEASE forgive my careless transgression. I meant, but did not accurately express, that the people of this region (Solapur in western India) are Hindu!!!
It says in the little blurb right next to the video in peewee's link that the people who are observing this ritual are Musilm:
Muslims in western India have been observing a bizarre ritual . . .
Interesting ... this does not appear to be an orthodox Islamic practice. Folk Islam in fact predominates in much of Africa and, I guess, northern India.
A main problem for Islam is that it so integrated in the culture, that stuff from the culture is seen as a part of the religon, when in fact a lot of the things people from a certain region say or do they base it off religon when in fact it is actually based off culture
As long as we're pointing out things that have been missed when we read: In the first post after Peewee's initial post I wrote that I read the story elsewhere, not in Peewee's link.
Oh, I saw that, but the fact that they're Muslim is also mentioned in the opening post of this thread. Peewee included the aforementioned blurb with the link.As long as we're pointing out things that have been missed when we read: In the first post after Peewee's initial post I wrote that I read the story elsewhere, not in Peewee's link.
Like I said, I read the story elsewhere; so I did not read the post either as I had seen the le of the thread. But you are correct.
I was talking to a friend of mine just now who practices Sikhism and he said basically the same thing. He also said that while the regions of India were historically defined by religion, it is much more accurate to define areas culturally these days. He also said that Islam is the fastest growing religion in India (about 15% of the population) when 20 years ago it was easily Christianity. Interesting. Learn something new every day!
Hahaha everyone ting on Fillmoe I love it
There's no reason to be racist against black people, or any race besides those damn towelheads. They give reasons everyday for the rest of the world to hate them.
read a book, and remove your lips from my please.....
You're people are heathens.
Hasn't he established he isn't muslim?
I have yet to see anyone outside of the Sikhs actually wear a damn turban. Hence, why it is a shame that they bear the brunt of racist attacks. Also ironic, considering that Sikhism was established when people of northwestern part of India were trying to defend themselves from Islamic threats.
It doesn't matter anyways.
I guess all brownies look the same.
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