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To: NormsRevenge
The meteorite at mecca:


9 posted on 09/27/2012 1:31:37 PM PDT by Slyfox
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To: Slyfox

Coincidentally named “The Iron Vagina.”


11 posted on 09/27/2012 1:38:13 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
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To: Slyfox

It would be cool if that thing chopped off a hand now and then. That would prove you were a sinner and they could take you outback and stone you.


13 posted on 09/27/2012 1:49:41 PM PDT by winodog
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To: Slyfox

Is that what the hajis throw rocks at?


14 posted on 09/27/2012 1:58:05 PM PDT by gop4lyf (Socialism is the political dream of the unachiever, the excuse maker, and the lazy.)
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To: Slyfox

The sand savages smooch sphincter, that’s for sure.


17 posted on 09/27/2012 2:09:17 PM PDT by Sirius Lee (Nuke Mecca.)
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To: Slyfox
In the 11th century, a man allegedly sent by the Fatimid Caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah attempted to smash the Black Stone, but was killed on the spot, having caused only slight damage. In 1674, according to Johann Ludwig Burckhardt, someone smeared the Black Stone with excrement so that "every one who kissed it retired with a sullied beard". The Shi'ite Persians were suspected of being responsible and were the target of curses from other Muslims for centuries afterwards, though explorer Sir Richard Francis Burton doubted that they were the culprits; he attributed the act to "some Jew or Greek, who risked his life to gratify a furious bigotry.

from wiki

19 posted on 09/27/2012 2:51:01 PM PDT by Repeat Offender (Official Romney/GOP-E Platform - We suck less)
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