Posted on 12/23/2015 7:53:46 PM PST by windcliff
'The situation was one of sheer hopelessness,' says Sajjad Shah from Pakistan. 'Those who could afford to stay and search for their dead loved ones did so. The others just had to go home.'
Almost three months after the deadliest Hajj crush in 25 years, the Saudi governmentâs official death toll still stands at 769, but most sources put the figure closer to 2,000. Shah, a hotel-owner from Mirpur, spent a month searching for his dead sister, but claims he met resistance from Saudi officials who covered up the full extent of the tragedy.
Just before 9am on 24 September, two groups preparing for one of the last major rites of the pilgrimage â the stoning of the devil â collided at the intersection of two roads. Shah says that his sister Syeda and nephew Irtaza, a student, were near the front of the crowd that poured across the Jamarat bridge.
'People were packed so tightly that they could not breathe and started tumbling over each other, and many became trapped underfoot,' Shah says.
Syedaâs body joined a mass of crudely built graves in Mina. She was denied her Islamic funeral rites: she was unwashed and buried without a white sheet.
'We could not put a permanent mark of any sort on the grave; there was no respect for the dead,' Shah says. He was told that the graves would probably be reused next year, so acute was the risk of another crush, and that chemicals would be poured in to dissolve the bodies.
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Maybe build more of these”Devil Boxes”,
lots of Them,
all over the World !
Problem Solved.
Give me grace in His blood anyday
Allah (Satan), giggles at the deception.
DIRKA-DIRKA MOHAMMED JIHAD !
oh, and the smell!
The Saudis (piss be upon them) apparently just bulldozed the victims into mass graves.
We just need about 750,000 more of these crushes and the world will really improve immensely.
Islamic paganism isn’t for the feint of heart, especially when the minions are caught up in a fervor over their idol.
Being a Muslim would be hell on earth without even going on a Hajj.
There are an estimated 1.6 billion Muslims. Each is supposed to do the Hajj to Mecca.
If each lives 70 years and no more are born/converted then that is nearly 23 million pilgrims for each of those 70 years.
There is no way to have 23 million people assembled without either a stampede, massive thirst or the explosion of a critical mass of Porta-Potties.
If BwanaNdege has the math correct, and If the number of pilgrims is spread out evenly (a lot of Ifs, I know) then that comes to about 63,000 a day, which seems a manageable number. Of course that would take an impossible effort to spread out evenly.
A UK fag full of self importance indeed!
He had to let us know he’s an atheist.
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