More Than 2 Million Muslims Gather for Hajj

Fox News ^ | 02/07/03 | AP

[JustPiper]

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates

[Sender]

...would Mecca be considered a baited field? Just wondering.

[dfwgator]

Could this be considered a "Target Rich" environment?

[Brett66]

LOL! I wasn't the only picturing mushroom clouds.

[JennysCool]

Last year, about 35 people died in a stampede while performing the "stoning of the devil" ritual. A 1997 fire in Mina killed more than 340 pilgrims.

The most deadly hajj-related tragedy was a 1990 stampede that killed 1,426 pilgrims.

Sounds like they do pretty well without our help.

[GRRRRR]

Reminds me of that good old Beach Boys song...

"Wouldn't it be nice if...."

If I were in charge...a couple of Air-Fuel "Daisies" would be blooming....

[timydnuc]

Sounds like a "target rich environment" to me!

[Right Wing Professor]

Damn, I saw the title, and was hoping to be the first to post that!

[JustPiper]

Ah I like the 60's tune for this :

Eve of Destruction ;)

[stlrocket]

GROUND ZERO ???????

[MarineDad]

The most deadly hajj-related tragedy was a 1990 stampede that killed 1,426 pilgrims.

That wasn't a tragedy. It was a public service to the world.

[montag813]

A pilgrimage to Mecca, birthplace of the Prophet Muhammad, is required of all able-bodied Muslims who can afford the trip.

Then most Muslims are lasy asses, because the amount of Muslims attending the Haj is only one-tenth of 1% of the total Muslims worldwide. It is hard to believe that only so few Muslims are able-bodied and can afford the trip. Heck , there are more 60 times more Muslims than that who could take a bus there. So much for their patronizing piety.

[neutrino]

Planning is everything! First, feed them pork...THEN proceed with other efforts!

[Types_with_Fist]

One nuke, two weeks bad press. Good trade.

[Thorondir]

Darn! You guys all beat me to it. But the only thing better than a nuke would be to crop dust the whole $hithole with plutonium. Then let them ALL go on a pilgrimage there.

George Bush tries repeatedly to reassure us about the “religion of peace”, but:

Why is the religion of peace directly responsible for 28 out of the 30 violent conflicts raging in the world today?

Why is the religion of peace responsible for the vast majority of chattel slavery in the world today?

Why is the religion of peace responsible for nearly every single act of terrorism in the 20th and 21st Centuries?

Why are the practitioners of the religion of peace routinely slaughtering unarmed practitioners of every other religion wherever they can get away with it?

Why does the religion of peace call for the murder of anyone who converts from the religion of peace to another religion?

Why do so many of the believers of the religion of peace look forward to the opportunity to copulate with 77 virgins in heaven if they die while killing innocent women and children of other religions? Is it a god they worship, or just sex? If a god, then shouldn’t heaven have more to do with him than their libidos?

Why do the leaders of the religion of peace routinely issue fatwas (death warrants) for anybody who questions their holy book of peace and their holy prophet of peace?

Why is the religion of peace responsible for the sexual mutilation of millions of little girls and the savage oppression of women?

Why did millions of the practitioners of the religion of peace laugh, cheer and dance in the street because 3,000 innocent men, women and children were murdered by seventeen men who supposedly “hijacked” the religion of peace? And why don’t the real practitioners of the religion of peace condemn the supposed “hijackers” of their religion? Why the deafening silence? Why the smiles? Why the cheers and high fives?

Hmmmm?

Perhaps I just don’t understand this whole PEACE thing. Did the definition of the word change, or is somebody just blowing a lot of smoke?

[mikrofon]

I was thinking of that once-popular R&R song,
"Let's Go to the Hajj"

[AFCdt]

The only reason I even clicked on this post was because I was curious how many of these posts there would be.

Little did I know the whole thread would be made of them!

Not complaining, just making an observation.

[Moose4]

Y'know, me being your basic fat white American infidel kaffir, I'll never get to see it. But I really would like to go to the Grand Mosque, just once, to see the place and see this big Kaaba thingy. Just to admire it from an architectural viewpoint.

I'd rather not go during tourist season, mind you, two million people is a little much. What is that, a typical spring weekend crowd at Disneyworld? :)

}:-)4