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Climate emergency strikes Islam’s holy ritual, with nearly 600 dead of heat stroke in Mecca
https://johnmenadue.com ^ | Jun 21, 2024 | Juan Cole

Posted on 06/21/2024 3:07:20 PM PDT by Beowulf9

As the temperature in Mecca reached 125.24° F. (51.8° C.) on Tuesday, word leaked out that nearly 600 pilgrims had died of heat stroke and 2,000 have been hospitalised for treatment. A virtual clinic treated more thousands remotely. Some 324 of the dead were Egyptians, while dozens were from Jordan.

The season of the annual Hajj or pilgrimage to Mecca, the birthplace of Islam, just ended. Some 1.8 million pilgrims participated.

Eyewitnesses said that not all the dead were elderly, that young persons died, as well.

Pilgrims carry out a series of rituals during the pilgrimage, beginning with preparing themselves and establishing their pious intention. Many of the steps involve being outside and being active. They dress in white robes. They circumambulate the cube-shaped Kaaba shrine. They run between the nearby hillocks of Safa and Marwa seven times, in commemoration of the search of Abraham’s wife Hajar for water for her son with the patriarch, Ishmael. They walk or are taken in buses to Mina and spend some nights of the pilgrimage there. There, they throw stones at satan.

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To: RetiredTexasVet

Who shives a git


21 posted on 06/21/2024 3:39:44 PM PDT by skinny old man (Still lurking and posting after all these years(27 yrs ?)(more ?)(seems like more...))
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To: Beowulf9

Like a bunch of pagan ants sucking on a big sugar cube


22 posted on 06/21/2024 3:40:51 PM PDT by NWFree (Somebody has to say it 🤪)
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To: Beowulf9

Well, it’s something.

Not much, but something.

A small start, anyway.


23 posted on 06/21/2024 3:43:01 PM PDT by CaptainPhilFan
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To: rfp1234

I was in Seattle last week and froze my tootsies. I am Florida man, and regretfully did not pack any warm jacket or sweater.


24 posted on 06/21/2024 3:47:12 PM PDT by Bobbyvotes (I will be voting for Trump/whoever he picks VP in November. If he loses in 2024, country is toast.)
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To: Beowulf9

From the picture that site doesn’t seem to have a footprint much different than that of a ballpark - they’ve got oil money out the wazoo; if they’re bothered by their body count, they can put a dome on the damn thing and air condition it instead of spending so much oil loot on slaughtering Israelis.


25 posted on 06/21/2024 3:50:02 PM PDT by Stosh
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To: Beowulf9

It’s a good start!


26 posted on 06/21/2024 4:02:55 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: Beowulf9

if you listened carefully to the BBC and other propaganda outfits, 1.8m was just the overseas registered visitors; then there were hundreds of thousands who couldn’t get registered (quotas apply to each country); then there were hundreds of thousands of Saudis.

unregistered didn’t get the air-conditioned tents or the bottles of water, etc.

mostly it was unregistered who died. no numbers could be verified. could be 50 dead for all anyone knows.

plenty are elderly making the visit as they near the end of their lives.


27 posted on 06/21/2024 4:02:57 PM PDT by MAGAthon
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To: All

I should have stayed in the lodge
instead of going to this Hajj
But I listened to my Iman
who was continually chiming
You need to go to the Hajj
No reason for you to dodge
As I lie dying in this heat
with stinking breath and burning feet
the last words from my lips
Did Mohammed really make this trip?


28 posted on 06/21/2024 4:05:10 PM PDT by BipolarBob (I was drowning in self pity until I bathed in the refreshing Lake of Respect.)
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To: Beowulf9

From 2004:


https://www.anabelmagazine.com/news/76951/vijon-tragjedia-ne-meke-mbi-1-000-pelegrine-kane-nderruar-jete/eng
The tragedy in Mecca continues/ Over 1,000 pilgrims have died


29 posted on 06/21/2024 4:19:30 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room)
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To: MAGAthon

“...as they near the end of their lives”.

Nearer than they figured.


30 posted on 06/21/2024 4:19:53 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: Beowulf9

Photo....

From the book
Where’s Al-Wasir-Waldo?🕌


31 posted on 06/21/2024 4:22:57 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: Beowulf9

Photo...

Count 171 from the lower left, moving up and to the right and there’s a guy with bacon on his beard.


32 posted on 06/21/2024 4:24:31 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: BipolarBob

Great stuff. In top position for best post. 🏆


33 posted on 06/21/2024 4:27:44 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: BipolarBob

LOL that should be published 👍🏻


34 posted on 06/21/2024 4:29:12 PM PDT by crosdaddy
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To: Beowulf9

Imagine dying while you are literally worshipping Satan.


35 posted on 06/21/2024 4:31:27 PM PDT by gop4lyf (Gay marriage is neither. Democrats are the party of sore losers and pedophiles.)
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To: SkyDancer
The world was on fire, and no one could save me but you.

It's strange what desire, will make foolish people do.

36 posted on 06/21/2024 4:36:02 PM PDT by Ikeon (Only a fool believes there is some good in everybody...And the devil uses that stupidity )
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To: Beowulf9

that’s a good start!


37 posted on 06/21/2024 4:43:31 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: crosdaddy

Thanks.


38 posted on 06/21/2024 4:46:05 PM PDT by BipolarBob (I was drowning in self pity until I bathed in the refreshing Lake of Respect.)
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To: BipolarBob

Love it!


39 posted on 06/21/2024 4:48:13 PM PDT by Tell It Right (Galatians 6:14 -- May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ...)
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To: Tell It Right

Thanks.


40 posted on 06/21/2024 4:49:02 PM PDT by BipolarBob (I was drowning in self pity until I bathed in the refreshing Lake of Respect.)
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