Theo-masochism

http://www.newstatesman.com/node/195315

June 6, 2005: "Through interviewing the family, a joint police and social services investigation team found that Firoz had made the lacerations by whipping himself with a zanjeer - a long chain with a set of curved knives attached at the end - as part of a flagellation ritual at the Idara-e-Jaaferiya mosque in Tooting, an area of Wandsworth, south London. The ritual, known as "zanjeer zani" or "zanjeer matam", was part of the Shia Muslim festival of Ashura, marked at the mosque every year.

The investigation team also discovered that Firoz's scars had built up over eight years. He had started using a zanjeer when he was seven. His brothers Hanif and Ijaz, who were 12 and nine at the time of the investigation in 2003, had also participated in the ceremony; they, too, had dozens of knife scars on their backs.

At the Abbas family home, officers found video footage that the family had shot during the ceremony in 2002. Spaced well apart in a circle and beating themselves with zanjeerswere the two eldest sons, Firoz and Hanif. But they were not the only children involved: the film showed sons from other families flagellating with the same instrument. According to a report by the Crown Prosecution Service (which was asked by the investigation team to give formal advice), the youngest child at that particular ceremony was just six years old."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/7207789.stm
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/aug/28/islam.religion
August 28, 2008: "A Shia Muslim was convicted of child cruelty yesterday after he forced two boys to flog themselves during a religious ritual.
Syed Mustafa Zaidi, a warehouse supervisor, told the boys, aged 13 and 15, to beat themselves with a zanjeer zani, a wooden-handled implement containing five curved blades used when commemorating the death of Hussain, grandson of Muhammad and one of the most important figures in Shia Islam. Zaidi is due to be sentenced on September 24."


http://www.express.com.pk/epaper/index.aspx?Issue=NP_LHE&Page=BACK_PAGE&Date=20090108&Pageno=8&View=1%20id=
http://www.express.com.pk/epaper/PoPupwindow.aspx?newsID=1100551866&Issue=NP_LHE&Date=20090108
http://www.express.com.pk/images/NP_LHE/20090108/Sub_Images/1100551866-1.jpg
Jan 8, 2009:  A girl praying on burning charcoal in Hyderabad.


http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3ap9y1_girl-praying-namaz-on-burning-coals-in-hyderabad_tv
A 13-year old girl offer prayer on burning charcoal in Imbargah Ain ul Zahra in Naseem Nagar, Hyderabad.


http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x17qgkn_two-girls-offer-prayer-on-burning-coals-in-hyderabad_lifestyle
2011: Two girls offer prayer on burning charcoal in Imbargah Ain ul Zahra in Naseem Nagar, Hyderabad,


http://tribune.com.pk/story/471008/youth-guard-ashura-processions-i-may-be-tired-but-i-am-not-afraid/
2012:  A young girl offers prayers on burning coals during Muharram

http://www.pakistantv.tv/2013/11/14/girls-offer-prayer-burning-coals-hyderabad/
Two Girls offered Prayer on Burning coals in Hyderabad (2013) 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLdpdsyo--Q
Dec 5, 2012: Young Shiite Muslim boy cries as an elder makes a cut on his forehead during Muharram


http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/ashura-2014-shiite-muslims-flagellate-themselves-swords-chains-knives-graphic-photos-1473098
2014: A Shi'ite Muslim has his child's head gashed with a knife during a procession to mark Ashura in Mumbai. (Reuters)


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3057820/Feast-eyes-Sufi-Muslim-holy-men-perform-bizarre-acts-self-torture-religious-festival.html#ixzz45jDOFyBv

April 27, 2015: The annual Urs Festival sees thousands of followers of the branch of mystic Islam take to the streets to commemorate the founder of Sufi, Moinuddin Chishti. To show devotion to their faith, the holy men put swords in their eyeballs, pierce their cheeks and drive skewers into their backs.

http://www.dailykhabrain.com.pk/archives/22234
http://www.dawn.com/news/1233191
http://www.unewstv.com/66771/ishq-e-rasool-mein-apna-hath-kaat-lene-wale-larke-se-shami-ki-khasosi-guftagu\
http://www.bbc.com/urdu/multimedia/2016/01/160119_blasphemy_atk
January 16, 2016: A boy cut his hand to prove himself innocent of blasphemy in a Naat ceremony. The incident happened in a Barelvi mosque, Madina Masjid, in Rajowal (near Okara) and the imam was Qari Basheer.

http://www.bbc.com/urdu/multimedia/2016/02/160208_suicide_boy_quran_ak
Feb 8, 2016: A boy commits suicide for failing to remember Koran by heart.  He was studying at Darul Uloom Eid Gha, Kabeerwala, Multan.


http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/uk/article4717841.ece
http://metro.co.uk/2016/03/20/hardline-muslims-banned-from-practising-bloody-ritual-in-london-mosque-5763828/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3500748/Medieval-barbarity-heart-Britain-Hardline-Muslims-spill-blood-London-mosque-flaying-skin-chains-practice-extreme-banned-Iran.html#ixzz44o9EuCjv

March 19, 2016: "A long-running legal battle over the ritual self-flagellation, known as zanjeer zani, came to a head in court last month when an order was granted banning a breakaway group of 14 named individuals from carrying out the practice within a mile of the Idara-e-Jaaferiya mosque in Tooting, South London.

These graphic images from a video, discovered by The Mail on Sunday, show the event in 2013 when a violent confrontation between the different factions at the Shia mosque, which is directly opposite a church, led to the legal action."


http://dailym.ai/2e4Z3aa 
Oct 9, 2016: Afghan Shiite Muslims self-flagellate with knives in gory ritual