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Mecca stampede: At least 717 killed and hundreds injured in crush during hajj
Telegraph UK/Reuters ^ | September 24, 2014

Posted on 09/24/2015 7:31:38 AM PDT by grundle

At least 717 pilgrims were killed on Thursday in a stampede outside the Muslim holy city of Mecca, Saudi authorities said, the worst disaster to strike the annual hajj pilgrimage in 25 years.

At least 805 others were injured in the crush at Mina, a few miles east of Mecca, caused by two large groups of pilgrims arriving together at a crossroads on their way to performing the "stoning the devil" ritual at Jamarat, Saudi civil defence said.

Thursday's disaster was the worst to befall the pilgrimage since July 1990, when 1,426 pilgrims were crushed to death in a tunnel near Mecca. Both stampedes occurred on Eid al-Adha (Feast of the Sacrifice), Islam's most important feast and the day of the stoning ritual.

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KEYWORDS: islam; mecca; muslim; satan
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

“Stoning the devil?”

Why do I get the impression that the “devil” in this ritual looks a lot like Uncle Sam?


41 posted on 09/24/2015 7:51:59 AM PDT by henkster (Liberals forget Dickens' kids forged an Empire on which the sun never set.)
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To: grundle

Crane falls with lightning strike on 9/11 and now stampede kills hundreds more. Maybe Muslims should take note that they are being warned, correct your mideaval ways or else. Else should be past, renounce or die.


42 posted on 09/24/2015 7:52:01 AM PDT by Reno89519 (American Lives Matter! US Citizen, Veteran, Conservative, Republican. I vote. Trump 2016.)
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To: Resolute Conservative

The punchline to an old lawyer joke, “A good start”.


43 posted on 09/24/2015 7:52:28 AM PDT by quantumman
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To: Charles Martel

The Devil went down to Mecca and spent 20 minutes playing catch with the faithful. They say he threw so hard, he killed 700!


44 posted on 09/24/2015 7:53:17 AM PDT by olepap (Your old Pappy)
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To: grundle

May all 72 of their Virgins look like Helen Thomas and act like Hillary Clinton.


45 posted on 09/24/2015 7:53:29 AM PDT by Daveinyork ("Trusting government with money and power is like trusting teenaged boys with whiskey and car keys",)
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To: grundle

Woo hoo! Keep the good news coming!


46 posted on 09/24/2015 7:56:59 AM PDT by 60Gunner (The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. - Plato)
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To: grundle
Mecca stampede: At least 717 killed and hundreds injured in crush during hajj

Last I heard it was around 300. I hate to be mean, but that's just that many fewer we will have to deal with later.

I have been persuaded to the position that there must inevitably be a confrontation between Islam and the Western world, and that many are going to die.

We either eliminate the brainwashing into the Muslim Religion, or we end up killing these people down the road. I see no third "painless" option.

If anyone else out there sees a "painless" option, please let me know, because that would be far preferable to what I think is going to happen.

47 posted on 09/24/2015 7:57:50 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: txhurl

ttiuwp!!!!!!!!!!!!


ttiuwV!!!!!!!


48 posted on 09/24/2015 7:58:06 AM PDT by cornfedcowboy
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To: grundle

They should build a grandstand and sell ticket to The Islamic Tournament of Destruction!!!


49 posted on 09/24/2015 8:02:46 AM PDT by rey
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To: WKUHilltopper

A good start...


50 posted on 09/24/2015 8:04:36 AM PDT by Noumenon (Resistance. Restoration. Retribution.)
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To: Resolute Conservative

Start steering all these “Refugees” from Syria (most of whom are not even Syrian) to make their Hajj, maybe there will be even more of a swarming throng to jam up the traffic patterns there.

The more gridlock, the greater the chance for still more stampedes.


51 posted on 09/24/2015 8:05:19 AM PDT by alloysteel (If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out? - Will Rogers.)
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To: vette6387

This is what you get from generations of inbreeding.


52 posted on 09/24/2015 8:06:27 AM PDT by Noumenon (Resistance. Restoration. Retribution.)
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To: WKUHilltopper

Hey,it’s a START????????????


53 posted on 09/24/2015 8:06:54 AM PDT by bandleader
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To: grundle


54 posted on 09/24/2015 8:09:48 AM PDT by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
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To: Wyrd bið ful aræd

Got to get to Mecca even if it kills me...?


55 posted on 09/24/2015 8:11:11 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: grundle

Want pics and video? LiveLeak.

The number of dead was quickly replaced as Muslim women worldwide gave birth to that many children in the next 20 minutes.


56 posted on 09/24/2015 8:11:47 AM PDT by lurk
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To: grundle

Herd mentality, anyone?


57 posted on 09/24/2015 8:12:17 AM PDT by Parmy
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To: dfwgator

Sale on black sheets at Penney’s.


58 posted on 09/24/2015 8:15:17 AM PDT by ponygirl (An Appeal to Heaven.)
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To: Parmy

Crowd psychology. Dangerous stuff no matter where you are.


59 posted on 09/24/2015 8:16:46 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: grundle

If we can just have a sonic boom happen hourly there, I’ll bet we can make these stampedes perpetual.


60 posted on 09/24/2015 8:20:44 AM PDT by chopperman
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