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.
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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.
Good.
That way, if they try anything on Inauguration Day, we'll know where to find 'em.
Yeah. And if the IRA blows up another Protestant church, we'll nuke the Vatican!!
Not only would we not do that, but our borders would continue to be as porous as ever.
> 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...).
Is it time for the annual ritual stampede of death again?
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.
Looks like a target-rich environment.
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".
Pork bombs....mmmmmm. Think I'll get an order of those to go.
What's the over/under of how pilgrims get killed this Haj?
> 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!"
> 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!!!
Perhaps if you read the statement I posted, you would see the word "if".
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.
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.
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