Bloodletting Research Paper

Research Paper Since the beginning of time, people have always given their lives and souls to their religion.In the early days, followers of christ gave their lives to him when they would burn themselves. For many years, long ago and even in some parts today Catholics and Protestants have had large violent outbursts both sides saying that their religion is better than the other. In Islam, however, they devote themselves to their god by having annual bloodlettings. Opposing people believe that bloodletting has a positive impact since, it has been shown to lead unity throughout the community.The impact of bloodletting in Islam has a negative impact because it leads to bad health, causes threats, and results into violence. Most importantly, …show more content…
For example, last year three bombs exploded during the bloodletting ceremony.(Julfikar ,Ali). This causes threats because anything where people are in danger with bombs is obviously threatening both in life and mental ways. Likewise, participants of the bloodletting are associated and categorized with the Islamic Extremists, since they do a very uncommon type of celebration (Spencer, Robert). For many in any country, being categorized with Islamic Extremists causes people to send threats to those participating in the bloodletting even though the people do not fully understand they are not with Islamic Extremists. This creates a negative affect on bloodletting. Additionally bloodletting has caused not only bomb attacks, but bomb threats which can be way worse in the idea that a bomb could strike any time during the ceremony (Julfikar ). When not concentrating on the soul ceremony and worrying about when and where a bomb might strike, its obvious that there is defiantly a negative impact on the community. In the end the practice of bloodletting causes a negative impact on the community because of bad