What Are They Doing?

[ukanonymous]

This is really interesting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YeF-RqeuEM

[anneasquith]

many a catholic wears a hair shirt ? do they sandy where/when.

[ukanonymous]

I don't understand where are all the ladies?

[sandyRoe]

Well, I do. My cilice is rarely off my back.

[naomi24]

As I said, they’re all potty.

[Octavius]

"...is it any more bizarre than morris dancing?"

Blasphemy! Burn him, burn him.....

[doctordb]

It is a muslim version of 'radio ga ga'.

In the late eighties it spent 15 weeks at number 1 in the iranian charts keeping the more superior (imho) 'ayatollah house mix' of the top spot.

[Octavius]

Its more likely a mourning ceremony, such as the Mourning of Muharram in which the mata (chest beating) is part of the shia ritual.

[Baldric]

/// This is really interesting ///

Er! . . . No it isn't!
6+ minutes of my life wasted looking for something of interest!

[Khandro]

All these rituals are really to demonstrate to others how devout they are. The really devout don't seek an audience for their self-chastisement. Sandy's shirt is probably just visible, but what of those who place stones in their socks to suffer quietly when walking miles on a pilgrimage, and then there are those barbed wire underpants - what are they called?

[andy-hughes]

I like to see young people enjoying themselves!

[ludwig]

It's the two rival factions of the British masochist society having a punch up.

Completely batsh1t mental.

[ukanonymous]

Chest beating in groups. It's a step up from apes I suppose but surely humans are evolved enough not to be doing this. I like the way the pretty boys sing though.

[anneasquith]

sandy, I don't have a cilice, would an itchy liberty bodice do ?

[sandyRoe]

Of course it would. You could sew some sequins on the inside of it to heighten the mortification.

[sandyRoe]

Anneasquith, some interesting stuff here if you're really interested.

http://www.cilice.co.uk/

[ludwig]

// Amateurs compared to the Phillipino Christians who have themselves crucified at Easter. //

Each to his own. We go to visit my auntie Joan in Cornwall for the bank holiday.

[anneasquith]

sequinned liberty bodices AND pants, I might be on to a winner here !!!!!!!!!!

[sandyRoe]

But remember the sequins have to be on the inside. You don't want to be running around looking like a disco diva from the 70s.

[vetuste_ennemi]

"Chest beating in groups. It's a step up from apes I suppose". I suppose otherwise, UKAnonymous. Please don't ask Khandro to translate.

[keyplus90]

These are Shia Muslims and what they are doing is one of the reason why majority aka Sunni Muslims have differences with them. It is against Islamic teachings.