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Stampede kills hundreds at Hajj pilgrimage
kmbc.com ^ | September 24, 2015 | Faith Karimi and Schams Elwazer

Posted on 09/24/2015 4:08:14 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012

(CNN) —A stampede during one of the last rituals of the Hajj season -- the annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca -- has killed more than 300 people and injured 450 others in Saudi Arabia.

The stampede occurred Thursday during the ritual known as "stoning the devil" in the tent city of Mina, about 2 miles from Mecca, Islam's holiest city.

Hundreds have been killed in past years during the same ceremony.

"We have a stampede accident in Mina, and civil defense is dealing with it," said Brig. Gen. Mansour al-Turki, an Interior Ministry spokesman.

The ministry said the latest death toll is 310, but the numbers have been climbing steadily. Officials deployed 4,000 workers and 220 ambulances and other vehicles to Mina to help with the disaster.

In the ritual, crowds of pilgrims throw stones at three pillars, in a re-enactment of an event when the Prophet Abraham stoned the devil and rejected his temptations, according to Muslim traditions.

The ceremony was the scene of stampedes and hundreds of deaths in the 1980s and 1990s as pilgrims passed a crowded bottleneck area leading to the small pillars on the ground.

In 2006, a stampede there killed at least 363 people.

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KEYWORDS: hajj; mecca; saudiarabia; snackbar
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To: ilovesarah2012

We need to find a rock that Democrats can parade around!


41 posted on 09/24/2015 4:42:18 AM PDT by BigCinBigD (...Was that okay?)
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To: Above My Pay Grade

LOL!


42 posted on 09/24/2015 4:43:42 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (I'm fed up.)
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To: ilovesarah2012

Oh,my. How. Sad...NOT!


43 posted on 09/24/2015 4:45:30 AM PDT by bigredkitty1 (March 5,2010. Rest in peace, sweet boy. I will miss you, Big Red.)
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To: muggs

Maybe too many marrying their cousins. All males presumably, so that makes 21,000 happy Virgens in Heaven that will not have a man..


44 posted on 09/24/2015 4:46:35 AM PDT by rovenstinez
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To: cripplecreek

They really are stupid people. Kinda like liberals.


45 posted on 09/24/2015 4:47:28 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: Slings and Arrows

The Who were worshipped and I’m sure it wasn’t their main objective. I attended the Who concert at the Pontiac Silverdome in Dec. of ‘75 and there was a crush on the way in that day too but nobody died. It’s pretty much the same mentality with Muslims and their Hajj.


46 posted on 09/24/2015 4:47:33 AM PDT by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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To: ilovesarah2012

I know Armageddon is about to happen when i see headlines, “Jehovahs Witnesses die in mass stampede”

But Muslims?

Just another normal day.


47 posted on 09/24/2015 4:47:35 AM PDT by Daniel Ramsey (Trump to win! He wins, we win, the nation wins!)
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To: SamAdams76

Ha - I’ve never seen that before


48 posted on 09/24/2015 4:48:34 AM PDT by 11th_VA ("We're not gonna take it ANYMORRRRRE !!!")
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To: ilovesarah2012

It’s like they have a “fear of missing out”...LOL!


49 posted on 09/24/2015 4:49:32 AM PDT by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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To: SMARTY

Consanguinity is the cause. Most of the dead and wounded were related.


50 posted on 09/24/2015 4:51:24 AM PDT by quantumman
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To: Loyalist

The House of Saud owns the holy places of Islam & makes money hand over fist from the hajj. Muzzies are obligated & where else are they going to go?

To the Saudi royals this is just the cost of doing business.


51 posted on 09/24/2015 4:52:53 AM PDT by elcid1970 (qui)
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To: elcid1970
Muzzies are obligated & where else are they going to go?

If they weren't trapped in the single digit centuries, one of them could make a "Virtual Hajj". Just think of the carbon footprint reduction...
52 posted on 09/24/2015 4:59:59 AM PDT by chrisser (This space for rent.)
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To: Blogatron

LOL

Epic oldie.


53 posted on 09/24/2015 5:01:39 AM PDT by Salamander (Paint on my cruel or happy face. Hide me behind it.)
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To: ilovesarah2012

“Comment Removed By Moderator” needs its own PING list...


54 posted on 09/24/2015 5:03:08 AM PDT by LadyBuck (Yippie-Ki-Yay)
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To: ilovesarah2012

Does it mean they are “martyrs” and they get 72 virgins?


55 posted on 09/24/2015 5:04:40 AM PDT by FroggyTheGremlim (Hunga Tonga-Hunga.)
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To: All

Am I the only one thinking we may not be hearing the truth. Could it be an ISIS or some other group attack? The Saudi’s aren’t know for freedom of the press.


56 posted on 09/24/2015 5:04:49 AM PDT by McGruff (The angry majority has awoken.)
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To: eCSMaster

Yes it does, actually.


57 posted on 09/24/2015 5:05:31 AM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: ilovesarah2012

It’s a start.....


58 posted on 09/24/2015 5:07:06 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: cripplecreek

“Mom & Dad stampeded at the Haj & all I got was this lousy t-shirt”


59 posted on 09/24/2015 5:08:18 AM PDT by LadyBuck (Yippie-Ki-Yay)
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To: elcid1970

It is also cost of doing the devil’s business. Time to pay the piper.


60 posted on 09/24/2015 5:09:16 AM PDT by shotgun
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