
The Shia will oftentimes use Taqiyyah (lying to save one’s religion) when asked about Matam (the act of self-flagellation during the Shia Remembrance of Muharram). We often hear Shia, particularly in the West (and Asia), saying that beating oneself during Matam is actually forbidden in the Shia religion, and that it is only ignorant and “extremist” Shia who do that.
This is a bold-faced lie, and we shall prove it here. In fact, the opposite...