Alarming videos show Iranians LICKING holy shrines in religious tradition as country's clerical hardliners refuse to close sites despite coronavirus outbreak

UK Daily Mail ^ | March 2, 2020 | Jack Elsom

[C19fan]

Iran has been accused of failing to clamp down on coronavirus contamination after alarming videos of worshippers licking a shrine emerged online.

Clips shared on social media show people licking the doors and burial mound inside the Fatima Masumeh shrine in Qom, defying token advice by the health ministry.

Worshippers in the videos brazenly state they 'don't care what happens', even if they catch or spread the infection which has killed at least 54 in the country.

Iran's hardline clerical establishment has refused to shut down Qom despite the holy city suffering the brunt of the outbreak and pilgrims spreading the virus across the Middle East.

[I want the USA back]

The country is back in the dark ages, mired in superstition.

[gloryblaze]

Too bad they don’t have real winters.

[lepton]

Well, that’ll sort some of the nuts out.

[MeganC]

The Iranians are spreading their diseases to each other?

Best thing they’ve done in years!!!

[thingumbob]

More winning!

They're just setting an example for the true believers.

[Tennessee Nana]

and most of the country has 3rd world medicine at best...

and little if any access to proper testing ...

[samtheman]

Here’s hoping the entire nation ends up winning a Darwin Award.

Will the official ceremony be conducted in Sweden?

[Harpotoo]

And canadians are freaking out because the Kid they reelected won’t stop travel to Iran. Now why would any western person want to travel there to begin with (outside of trying to make some $ illegally).

[Richard Kimball]

Source of spreading Coronavirus in Iran?

There are rumors that Chinese scientists have been working with them on their nuclear program. It would explain why some of the infected have been high ranking members of the government.

[John S Mosby]

That’s not all they are licking. There of course being no homosexuality in Iran.... according to Almostgotajob.

8th Century typed destroying life for the secular remainders in Iran trying to live in a modern Free Iran.

Then you have the >younameit< lickers, icons, wee-wees, sphincters, perineal areas, not to mention the poor goats who are sought by the “non-dating” freaks of Iran and the ME. In fact they prefer it.

[SgtHooper]

Some hog urine spray would be a nice addition!

[Grampa Dave]

Another tool to thin the herd.

This great stupid Islamic reality earns multiple Darwin Awards - Removing Islamic thugs from the breeding pool is a good thing for the rest of the world.

("Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge." - Charles Darwin)

The Darwin Awards are a tongue-in- cheek honor, originating in Usenet newsgroup discussions around 1985. They recognize individuals who have supposedly contributed to human evolution by selecting themselves out of the gene pool via death or sterilization by their own actions.

[Tennessee Nana]

according to Wiki 20 MILLION moslems do their pilgrimage to Qom every year...all year long...

8 MILLION visit mecca which is in July this year...

and there are several other sites throughout the Middle east too...

[Grampa Dave]

This wins the Yuck award of this morning!

Well, I guess they’ve got that problem licked.

[Ozark Tom]

Lot’s of expat Iranians living in Canada.

[zeugma]

Another tool to thin the herd.

Indeed. Evolution in action.

[b4its2late]

They’re nuts.

[PTBAA]

Licking? Biden and Buttigieg want in on the action!

[Kickass Conservative]

Big deal. The DNC Media has been licking Obama’s A Hole for over a decade.

[philman_36]

Amazingly, there are people in the world who are more stupid than American liberals.