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Two Million Muslim Pilgrims Flock to Mina
islam-online ^ | 1/18/2005 | staff writer

Posted on 01/18/2005 11:48:55 AM PST by bedolido

MAKKAH, January 18 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) – More than two million pilgrims started Tuesday, January 18, flocking into Mina, an arid valley near the holy city of Makkah, in the first day of the hajj rituals.

Chanting “labbaik Allahumma Labbaik” (Here I am Allah, answering your call) in the early morning hours, Muslim pilgrims moved easily on foot or by buses from Makkah to Mina, the Saudi news agency reported.

The journey proceeded with calm and without major incident amid pleasant weather conditions.

The pilgrims will continue to stream through a mountain to Mina, some two miles outside Makkah, throughout the day to spend their day and night hours before moving early Wednesday to Mount Arafat.

Over 14,200 buses were mobilized to transport the pilgrims into the area.

While performing hajj, men are clad in a two-piece seamless white cloth which mark a state of purity that erases all differences of race, class or culture, while women are fully covered except for the hands and face.

(Excerpt) Read more at islam-online.net ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: inthecrosshairs; million; mina; muslim; pilgrims
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You know I hate to say this... but we should tell all of Islam if another 9/11 happens we will destroy (with dirty bombs) all islamic holy sites.

I know... fanatical... but in reality, this IS a religious war. No one wants to call it that.

1 posted on 01/18/2005 11:48:59 AM PST by bedolido
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To: bedolido
Two Million Muslim Pilgrims Flock to Mina

Good.

That way, if they try anything on Inauguration Day, we'll know where to find 'em.

2 posted on 01/18/2005 11:49:57 AM PST by martin_fierro (Who askew?)
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To: bedolido
but we should tell all of Islam if another 9/11 happens we will destroy (with dirty bombs) all islamic holy sites.

Yeah. And if the IRA blows up another Protestant church, we'll nuke the Vatican!!

3 posted on 01/18/2005 11:50:09 AM PST by AppyPappy (If You're Not A Part Of The Solution, There's Good Money To Be Made In Prolonging The Problem.)
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To: bedolido
"but we should tell all of Islam if another 9/11 happens we will destroy (with dirty bombs) all islamic holy sites."

Not only would we not do that, but our borders would continue to be as porous as ever.

4 posted on 01/18/2005 11:53:59 AM PST by Mr. Mojo
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To: bedolido

> we will destroy (with dirty bombs) all islamic holy sites

Unrealistic and unwise.

That said... that many people packed together temporarily, all to soon scatter... seems a hell of a target for biowarfare. Smallpox or ebola or something. One crazed loonie with contaminated robes could do a lot of damage, never mind a small team with hidden aerosol sprayers (or maybe *not* hidden... use those cooling sprayers...).


5 posted on 01/18/2005 11:56:00 AM PST by orionblamblam
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To: bedolido; USF

Is it time for the annual ritual stampede of death again?


6 posted on 01/18/2005 11:57:44 AM PST by Proud Infidel (There is no such thing as a moderate Huitzilopochtlist.)
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To: orionblamblam

The idea of using those cooling sprayers reminds me: I have often thought that as crafty of a plan as 9/11 was, if our side ever was ever pushed and decided to attack in an unorthodox way, we would come up with much more creative/destructive/effective ideas.


7 posted on 01/18/2005 12:01:17 PM PST by contemplator
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To: Proud Infidel

Looks like a target-rich environment.


8 posted on 01/18/2005 12:02:22 PM PST by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: bedolido
The cold hard fact is, that we do have the ability to push a little button and the Qaaba and all of Mecca would simply disappear into vapor. And the more amazing fact is that we have not done it. Does anybody out there believe that the Muslims would ever practice such self restraint?
9 posted on 01/18/2005 12:03:30 PM PST by Lekker 1 (A government policy to rob Peter to pay Paul can be assured of the support of Paul [G.B. Shaw])
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To: orionblamblam
Unrealistic and unwise.

I admit you are correct. It was a stupid thing to say... But it would be nice to give Islam a 9/11 experience. Maybe not dirty bombs... but as was said last year (during the beginning of the Iraq war...

there's always "Pork-Bombs".

10 posted on 01/18/2005 12:04:36 PM PST by bedolido (I can forgive you for killing my sons, but I cannot forgive you for forcing me to kill your sons)
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To: bedolido
Two Million Muslim Pilgrims Flock to Mina



Yeah, I can see why two million people would flock to.....

Oh. I thought you said Mena. Sorry.
11 posted on 01/18/2005 12:04:59 PM PST by BaBaStooey
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To: bedolido

Pork bombs....mmmmmm. Think I'll get an order of those to go.


12 posted on 01/18/2005 12:07:54 PM PST by Lekker 1 (A government policy to rob Peter to pay Paul can be assured of the support of Paul [G.B. Shaw])
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To: bedolido

What's the over/under of how pilgrims get killed this Haj?


13 posted on 01/18/2005 12:11:20 PM PST by Semper Paratus
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> But it would be nice to give Islam a 9/11 experience.

Problem is, they get 9/11 daily. It comes with their culture. And what we see as a horrible tragedy... they often enough see as soemthing to be all thrilled about. "Yaaaay! Little Muhamabilly got killed in crossfire!"


14 posted on 01/18/2005 12:15:05 PM PST by orionblamblam
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To: contemplator

> we would come up with much more creative/destructive/effective ideas.

And in fact we have done so. I was 11 when Reagan took office, and for the longest time I thought that he had pussed out in not flattening Iran. However, in later years I realized he had done so... by getting the Iraqis to do it for him. The US never could have gotten away with killign millions of Iranians. But sic another Muslim nation on 'em... and sit back and watch the show!!!


15 posted on 01/18/2005 12:17:35 PM PST by orionblamblam
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To: AppyPappy
Yeah. And if the IRA blows up another Protestant church, we'll nuke the Vatican!!

I don't recall the IRA blowing up a Protestant church.

Would you kindly reply with a source for your statement.

16 posted on 01/18/2005 12:20:23 PM PST by Beckwith (John Kerry has now met with the enemy during war two times, once in 1970 and once in 2005.)
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To: Beckwith

Perhaps if you read the statement I posted, you would see the word "if".


17 posted on 01/18/2005 12:21:29 PM PST by AppyPappy (If You're Not A Part Of The Solution, There's Good Money To Be Made In Prolonging The Problem.)
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To: bedolido

You know I hate to say this... but we should tell all of Islam if another 9/11 happens we will destroy (with dirty bombs) all islamic holy sites.<<<


Nope. Destroy THEM on the way to those sites.


18 posted on 01/18/2005 12:21:49 PM PST by hushpad (Come on baby. . .Don't fear the FReeper. . .)
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To: bedolido
On an ironic side note, the whole place was smashed up in an accident!


19 posted on 01/18/2005 12:25:32 PM PST by MarineBrat ("Religion in a Family is at once its brightest Ornament & its best Security." --Samuel Adams)
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To: orionblamblam

Hmmm.... he did the same to the soviets (Afghanistan) and to the Nicaraguans (contras). Not a bad way to fight a war. Something GSB ought to learn from. Doesn't always have to be our blood and treasure.


20 posted on 01/18/2005 12:26:56 PM PST by johnb838 (Oldthinkers unbellyfeel Amsoc)
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