20 Stabbed And Beaten To Death In Pakistani Sufi Shrine – IOTW Report

20 Stabbed And Beaten To Death In Pakistani Sufi Shrine

A custodian of a Sufi shrine in Pakistan reportedly killed 20 fellow members of the Muslim sect with the help of five accomplices yesterday.  Apparently, the perpetrator (and other practitioners) would travel to this shrine twice a week for “beating and torturing with a red hot iron rod” as a form of ritual cleansing.

The custodian, Abdul Waheed, confessed to police that he decided to kill “the people because they had tried to kill him by poisoning him in the past, and again they were there to kill him.”

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I know Sufi’s do the Whirling Dervish as part of their practice, but this beating and branding for cleansing the spirit is new to me. Murdering each other however, is as old as the Muslim religion itself.

17 Comments on 20 Stabbed And Beaten To Death In Pakistani Sufi Shrine

  1. The Sufi live in a very bad part of town
    And everybody there tries to put the Sufi down.
    Sufi, I don’t care what things your sect members do
    ‘Cause you know, Sufi folks, I’ll be there for you.
    And so I’m singing

    Hang on, Sufi, Sufi hang on…

  2. I’m starting a support group for folks that can’t get “Hang on Sufi” out

    of their heads…The bad news is….it’s at Waffle House

    The good news is You can bring Your own food !!!

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