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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*shrug* If Allah wills it....
Religion makes one do crazy things.
The suspense! What’s going to be the winner this year? Heat or stampede?
Nothing of value was lost.
FAKE NEWS - Look at the picture, plenty of snow on the ground.
Nice try, Globalists.
It gets hot in the middle of a desert in the middle of summer. Who knew?
The heat in Phoenix reached these temps last year. I know ones died but not that many. Walking around a cube in that heat, not a good idea.
It’s weather.
NOT a “climate emergency”
Whoever could have imagined it got hot in the desert?
The centuries of this has probably resulted in a massive number of deaths, it is pretty hard to avoid considering what the ritual is and how the desperate want to get there no matter what.
“They circumambulate...”
I thought the was done in the privacy of one’s own bedroom.
Pretty highfalutin word.
Oil causes climate change. The Saudis sell a ton of oil. Therefore, Allah is striking them down for selling oil to the world. That will teach them!
Sounds kinda dirty, if you ask me! (sarc)
inshallah إن شاء الله
Allah needs to go EV
It’s just weather , and they say mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the mid day sun so now add or replace dogs and Englishmen with muslims
In northern California, the minimum temps (53-54F) are near a record LOW. So whatever it is, it’s LOCAL, not global.
Read where it was over a thousand. Allah and global warming do work it seems.
600 dead out of 1,800,000 = 0.033%
Statistically insignificant.
Allah refilling the virgins cache with what is available.
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