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UK Daily Mail ^ | August 16, 2018 | Debbie White

[NormsRevenge]

What’s the over/under in Vegas on number of folks stampeded to death? Some rituals die hard.

[wgmalabama]

Fuel air bomb. A big one or 50 would work.

[Gay State Conservative]

The penalty for apostasy in Islam is death. If you are up for a fatwa go for it.

As I've said...I've done dangerous things before.Hell,when you get to be my age taking a shower can be fatal!

[sauropod]

I did my penance.

Took my kids to Disney world when they were very young.

Never again.

Btw they got rid of the song of the south at splash mountain iirc.

[minnesota_bound]

#32 or former CIA guy John Brennan?
Both a commie and a muslim convert.

[teeman8r]

drones up and armed... blow the black rock to smithereens...

wish i had the money to do that...

just before the Hajj... muslims be like... what happened to the rock? Allah ain’t all that huh? give me some bacon.

[BubbaBasher]

Just imagine their body odor?

I don't have to imagine. My office is over run by people from a much larger country just to East.

[Albion Wilde]

If I'm challenged at any point while in Saudi I'll say that I'm a new convert.

You'd have to show a passport. You risk your death if discovered to be a false actor. The logistics of what you propose would not be worth the considerable risk.

[Albion Wilde]

...but, Sir Richard Francis Burton managed to make the Haj to both Mecca and Medina in disguise and published a book about that journey.

But that was before electronic chip passports and ID cards, facial recognition technology and viral social media lynchings.

[Albion Wilde]

I'd say this makes it a good time of year to visit Disney World/Disneyland. I saw plenty of Muslims at Disneyland a few weeks ago, and it wasn't as crowded as I feared it would be.

Or, you could just go to the Walmart in Alexandria, Virginia, just outside DC to have an "ROP lite" experience.

[Albion Wilde]

much of the problems in the ME would be solved if the governments... would just invest in a large system of public showers, so that everyone could take a cool shower, once a day.

Ha schvitz...

[Gay State Conservative]

The logistics of what you propose would not be worth the considerable risk.

Yes,there'd be some risk but I'd say not "considerable".

[Albion Wilde]

It’s your funeral, as they say.

[MplsSteve]

The Saudis may issue some tourist visas but I can’t picture them ever allowing any non-Muslim tourists enter Mecca.

[Gay State Conservative]

It’s your funeral, as they say.

One of my very favorite films of all time is an Australian film called "Breaker Morant".In it,the main character (Morant),responding to a young officer who was charged with him at court martial,assured him,when he expressed fear at the possibility of being executed,that "all lives end in a dreadful execution,George".

One way or another my life will end in a dreadful execution.And that execution could involve a sword.

[octex]

Imagine what a MOAB would do....

[Howie66]

That would be worth the price of admission!

[Howie66]

True enough. What ever works and makes the biggest mess is fine by me.

[octex]

When Brennan was CIA Station Chief at the embassy in SA, he converted to Islam. He’s still a Muzzie, AFAIK.

[newfreep]

As an aside....an eerie resemblance of Mecca black box and hussein44's white box library. Just sayin'....