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The Hajj journey begins: Stunning images show Saudi Arabia preparing for the arrival of [tr]
UK Daily Mail ^ | August 16, 2018 | Debbie White

Posted on 08/16/2018 7:14:33 AM PDT by C19fan

More than one million pilgrims have already arrived in Saudi Arabia, days before the kingdom prepares to host its mammoth annual Hajj pilgrimage, according to state media.

The Hajj, which is expected to draw more than two million pilgrims this year, represents a key rite of passage for Muslims and a massive logistical challenge for Saudi authorities – as these stunning images show.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Local News; Religion; Society
KEYWORDS: brennan; hajj; husseinobama; islam; kaaba; mecca; paganism; rop; saudiarabia
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To: C19fan

What’s the over/under in Vegas on number of folks stampeded to death? Some rituals die hard.


61 posted on 08/16/2018 10:05:32 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Monthly Donors Rock!!!)
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To: Howie66

Fuel air bomb. A big one or 50 would work.


62 posted on 08/16/2018 10:12:27 AM PDT by wgmalabama (The government murdered Robert LaVoy Finicum - what makes you think you are not next?)
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To: Durus
The penalty for apostasy in Islam is death. If you are up for a fatwa go for it.

As I've said...I've done dangerous things before.Hell,when you get to be my age taking a shower can be fatal!

63 posted on 08/16/2018 10:19:23 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (I've Never Owned Slaves...You've Never Picked Cotton.End Of "Discussion".)
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To: Night Hides Not

I did my penance.

Took my kids to Disney world when they were very young.

Never again.

Btw they got rid of the song of the south at splash mountain iirc.


64 posted on 08/16/2018 10:44:36 AM PDT by sauropod (I am His and He is mine. Even tho physically free, Tommy's not free yet. He's still facing charges.)
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To: butlerweave

#32 or former CIA guy John Brennan?
Both a commie and a muslim convert.


65 posted on 08/16/2018 10:53:32 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: C19fan

drones up and armed... blow the black rock to smithereens...

wish i had the money to do that...

just before the Hajj... muslims be like... what happened to the rock? Allah ain’t all that huh? give me some bacon.


66 posted on 08/16/2018 11:06:16 AM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
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To: Tamatoa
Just imagine their body odor?

I don't have to imagine. My office is over run by people from a much larger country just to East.

67 posted on 08/16/2018 1:00:47 PM PDT by BubbaBasher ("Liberty will not long survive the total extinction of morals" - Sam Adams)
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To: Gay State Conservative
If I'm challenged at any point while in Saudi I'll say that I'm a new convert.

You'd have to show a passport. You risk your death if discovered to be a false actor. The logistics of what you propose would not be worth the considerable risk.

68 posted on 08/16/2018 2:19:10 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (Interrupt Obama and reporters are racist; interrupt Trump and they're heroes. --Mark Levin)
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To: Covenantor; C19fan
...but, Sir Richard Francis Burton managed to make the Haj to both Mecca and Medina in disguise and published a book about that journey.

But that was before electronic chip passports and ID cards, facial recognition technology and viral social media lynchings.

69 posted on 08/16/2018 2:22:14 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (Interrupt Obama and reporters are racist; interrupt Trump and they're heroes. --Mark Levin)
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To: Night Hides Not; sauropod
I'd say this makes it a good time of year to visit Disney World/Disneyland. I saw plenty of Muslims at Disneyland a few weeks ago, and it wasn't as crowded as I feared it would be.

Or, you could just go to the Walmart in Alexandria, Virginia, just outside DC to have an "ROP lite" experience.

70 posted on 08/16/2018 2:27:07 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (Interrupt Obama and reporters are racist; interrupt Trump and they're heroes. --Mark Levin)
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To: PhiloBedo
much of the problems in the ME would be solved if the governments... would just invest in a large system of public showers, so that everyone could take a cool shower, once a day.

Ha schvitz...

71 posted on 08/16/2018 2:29:42 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (Interrupt Obama and reporters are racist; interrupt Trump and they're heroes. --Mark Levin)
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To: Albion Wilde
The logistics of what you propose would not be worth the considerable risk.

Yes,there'd be some risk but I'd say not "considerable".

72 posted on 08/16/2018 2:32:03 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (I've Never Owned Slaves...You've Never Picked Cotton.End Of "Discussion".)
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To: Gay State Conservative

It’s your funeral, as they say.


73 posted on 08/16/2018 2:35:51 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (Interrupt Obama and reporters are racist; interrupt Trump and they're heroes. --Mark Levin)
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To: Gay State Conservative

The Saudis may issue some tourist visas but I can’t picture them ever allowing any non-Muslim tourists enter Mecca.


74 posted on 08/16/2018 2:42:19 PM PDT by MplsSteve
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To: Albion Wilde
It’s your funeral, as they say.

One of my very favorite films of all time is an Australian film called "Breaker Morant".In it,the main character (Morant),responding to a young officer who was charged with him at court martial,assured him,when he expressed fear at the possibility of being executed,that "all lives end in a dreadful execution,George".

One way or another my life will end in a dreadful execution.And that execution could involve a sword.

75 posted on 08/16/2018 2:45:34 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (I've Never Owned Slaves...You've Never Picked Cotton.End Of "Discussion".)
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To: Howie66

Imagine what a MOAB would do....


76 posted on 08/16/2018 4:16:45 PM PDT by octex
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To: octex

That would be worth the price of admission!


77 posted on 08/16/2018 4:19:32 PM PDT by Howie66 ("...Against All Enemies, Foreign and Democrat.....")
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To: wgmalabama

True enough. What ever works and makes the biggest mess is fine by me.


78 posted on 08/16/2018 4:21:41 PM PDT by Howie66 ("...Against All Enemies, Foreign and Democrat.....")
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To: IllumiNaughtyByNature

When Brennan was CIA Station Chief at the embassy in SA, he converted to Islam. He’s still a Muzzie, AFAIK.


79 posted on 08/16/2018 4:22:07 PM PDT by octex
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To: C19fan
As an aside....an eerie resemblance of Mecca black box and hussein44's white box library. Just sayin'....


80 posted on 08/16/2018 4:39:26 PM PDT by newfreep ("INSIDE EVERY PROGRESSIVE IS A TOTALITARIAN SCREAMING TO GET OUT" @HOROWITZ39, DAVID HOROWITZ)
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