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Americans performing Hajj attacked in Saudi Arabia
The Washington Times ^ | October 18, 2013 | Afshain Afzal

Posted on 10/21/2013 4:20:30 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

A group of Americans visiting Saudi Arabia to perform Hajj were threatened and attacked earlier this week on Oct. 16 by a radicalized group of extremists. On one of the nights where Hajj pilgrims are required to stay overnight in the city of Mina, a group of young men began asking different sets of pilgrims if they were from the United States.

When they encountered a group that identified themselves as not only Americans, but also as Shiite Muslims, they were threatened and attacked by the group of men, who were apparently armed with knives and other blades.

During the attack, the men reportedly shouted “Our [holy pilgrimage] will be complete once we have killed you, ripped out your hearts and eaten them, and [then] raped your women.”

In continuing the assault, the men also shouted “We’re going to do Karbala all over again,” referring to an important historical event to Shi’ite Muslims, wherein the grandson of the Prophet, named Imam Husain, was brutally attacked and killed, after he was forced to witness the killing of many of his family members. The survivors of the incident, mostly women and children, were immediately imprisoned in circumstances that resulted in the deaths of some of the prisoners.

The Americans fled the tent area, which the Saudi government had specifically designated for American and European pilgrims. During the escape, many of the group, almost entirely U.S. citizens and mostly hailing from Dearborn, Michigan suffered bruises (in one case, due to an attempted strangulation), concussions, broken bones, and black eyes....

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TOPICS: Current Events; Islam; Religion & Culture; Religion & Politics
KEYWORDS: hajj; islam; shiite; sunni
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Somehow, this just has to be Bush's fault.
1 posted on 10/21/2013 4:20:31 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Religion of peace bump.


2 posted on 10/21/2013 4:22:57 AM PDT by meatloaf
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To: meatloaf

The religion of cannibalism.


3 posted on 10/21/2013 4:26:25 AM PDT by Hardraade (http://junipersec.wordpress.com/2013/10/04/nicolae-hussein-obama/)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The religion of peace doesn’t even like itself, how can the rest of us infidels feel safe as long as these animals survive.

Unfortunately in order to deal with them we must be as savage as they are. The only thing they understand is death.

When is Obama going on his HAAJJ


4 posted on 10/21/2013 4:26:41 AM PDT by Venturer (Keep Obama and you aint seen nothing yet.)
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To: Venturer

I think he’s already been, probably after he visited Pakistan with his Indonesian passport. You only are required to go once in a lifetime. Maybe he’ll make the 2017 hajj.


5 posted on 10/21/2013 4:29:05 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (Obama's favorite game is Pin the Fail on the Honkey!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Not really having any sympathy for these so called, “Americans.” Worship the denon god of a pedophilic death cult? Expect to die.


6 posted on 10/21/2013 4:36:19 AM PDT by gop4lyf (Are we no longer in that awkward time? Or is it still too early?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

well, let’s hope this instills in the Dearbornists a renewed sense of just how lucky they are to live in the USA where they don’t have to deal with the reality of Muslim sect violence on a daily basis


7 posted on 10/21/2013 4:38:02 AM PDT by blueplum
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To: blueplum

Yes, +1


8 posted on 10/21/2013 4:49:19 AM PDT by agere_contra (I once saw a movie where only the police and military had guns. It was called 'Schindler's List'.)
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To: meatloaf

Lovely, just lovely...Muslim killing Muslim? Can this be?

We should encourage all Muslims making the pilgrimage right now to kill each other off, en masse, destroy the Kabbah stone and bring down the entire edifice of Islam and never return from that Islamic hell.


9 posted on 10/21/2013 4:57:00 AM PDT by Netz
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To: meatloaf

It’s a religion of peace.

Believe that or they will kill you.


10 posted on 10/21/2013 5:00:34 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA (When Injustice becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty.-Thomas Jefferson)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
U.S. citizens and mostly hailing from Dearborn, Michigan suffered...

Like the McDonald's jingle: “Lovin’ it”.

We used to call Dearborn, “Little Beirut”.

Scum, they're all scum, Dearborn, Riyadh, Mecca, etc. May the encircle the Kabba stone so many times that the earth underneath, sinks to a depth of 29 Kilometers, swallowing them all up in one fell swoop.

Now that would be a reason to celebrate at the local bar or pub.

11 posted on 10/21/2013 5:01:09 AM PDT by Netz
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...Muslim killing Muslim? Can this be?

" If Satan also is divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand?..." - Luke 11:18

Even though I supported the ouster of Saddam Husein I was always of the opinion that we trying to keep Satan from being divided against himself.

12 posted on 10/21/2013 5:11:05 AM PDT by Tonytitan
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a radicalized group of extremists

A.k.a. just your average muslim.

13 posted on 10/21/2013 5:14:24 AM PDT by Moltke (Sapere aude!)
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To: Tonytitan
No need to worry.

The descendants of Ishmael are predestined to have their hand at each others throat for an eternity and be locked in mortal combat with us and each other.

We do not have to work too hard to encourage them to kill each other. Of course we can spin their top a little faster now and then but they do a fine job themselves.

So long as Islam exists in a perma state of war (Dar Al Hareb) they will kill, kill, kill. If they ever manage to win (Dar Al Islam) then they'll go back to killing each other again.

They're simply bored out of their minds and love to keep their brains up, where the sun never shines... or can we say, where the sun never "Shi'ites".

14 posted on 10/21/2013 5:23:13 AM PDT by Netz
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

No, it is due to global warming. Haven’t you heard, heat makes people crazy and violent. Or in the case of Muslims more crazy and violent. So their behavior is not their own fault, obviously man caused global warming is to blame. Probably because you carry a gun too.


15 posted on 10/21/2013 5:25:05 AM PDT by ThunderSleeps (Stop obarma now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

CAIR will get right on that...


16 posted on 10/21/2013 5:47:50 AM PDT by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheel barrow)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The Shia-Sunni internecine warfare is about to explode.

This will shred the entire middle east apart.


17 posted on 10/21/2013 5:49:28 AM PDT by sauropod (Fat Bottomed Girl: "What difference, at this point, does it make?")
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Saudi Arabia is about 10-15% Shiite. Iraq is 2/3 Shiite, 1/3 Sunni.

If there is a general Sunni/Shiite conflict, you are right that it will get real bad, real fast.

18 posted on 10/21/2013 6:02:22 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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To: meatloaf

I understand that this happens at the Vatican all of the time.


19 posted on 10/21/2013 6:04:44 AM PDT by artichokegrower
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The Religion of Peace may indeed destroy itself before we’re forced to destroy it.

Your Hopeful Thought of the Day.


20 posted on 10/21/2013 6:30:54 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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