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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Pump up the heat!!
Anybody who goes to a desert gathering where thousands of people are in attendance, in temperatures in excess of 100 degrees, and walk around an enclosed structure with the sun beating down on the marble flooring, the black stone, and you, deserves what they get.
Divine judgement.
“Climate emergency?”
It’s never been hot in the desert before?
We need to start calling their twin imaginary crises “the climate change superstition” and “the global warming superstition.”
If anyone feels they have to go there a least once in their lifetime then why not go there during a cooler time of the year?
A good start.
“It gets hot in the middle of a desert in the middle of summer. Who knew?”
A former classmate of mine worked for ARAMCO for many years. He said that temperatures of over 130 degrees Fahrenheit were not unusual in the Saudi desert.
what do you call a 1,000 dead islamics in Mecca?
A good start!
LMAO
Alla’s will.
I don/t give a damn.
Let me guess, you think I posted this because I like Muslims.
So to protest that you don’t you write ‘I don’t give a damn’.
At all.
Exactly.
💯%.
Nor do I.
Too hot to stampede, shame.
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