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Saudi Government Says 345 Killed in Hajj Stampede
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| Thursday, January 12, 2006
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Posted on 01/12/2006 8:35:39 AM PST by ryan71
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01/12/2006 8:35:40 AM PST
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ryan71
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To: ryan71
I guess the moral to the story is throwing rocks at the devil is a bad idea !
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posted on
01/12/2006 8:39:22 AM PST
by
Steveone
(Liberalism is a brain tumor!)
To: ryan71
Shouldn't this be a stompede?
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posted on
01/12/2006 8:39:29 AM PST
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Tarpon
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To: ryan71
Anytime 345 people are killed performing a ritual, there is something wrong with the underlying belief system.
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posted on
01/12/2006 8:41:23 AM PST
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gotribe
(Hillary: Accessory to Rape)
To: ryan71
I find it mind-boggling that these folks do this year after year, stampede after stampede. You'd think they'd figure out some way to do a pilgrimage without getting themselves freakin' killed!
To: ryan71
To: steelcurtain
Cutlures without learning curves.
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posted on
01/12/2006 8:42:53 AM PST
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meowmeow
(Meow! Meow!)
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To: ryan71
Hey, it happens at Promise Keepers all the time!
< / sarcasm >
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posted on
01/12/2006 8:46:57 AM PST
by
manic4organic
(We won. Get over it.)
To: ryan71
Death appears to be an integral part of any large-scale Muslim get together. They just seem to go together.
Huge crowds gather in St. Peter's Square but there's seldom any reports of trouble. An occasional heart-attack maybe, but that's about it.
The civilized world versus the barbaric world. Quite a contrast.
To: newcthem
To: ryan71
It's not like they were trying to get to the $25 DVD players the day after Thanksgiving.
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posted on
01/12/2006 8:48:48 AM PST
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Tijeras_Slim
("We're a meat-based society.")
To: gotribe
Anytime 345 people are killed performing a ritual, there is something wrong with the underlying belief system.It's a pagan ritual involving idolatry. The 345 paid the price
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posted on
01/12/2006 8:49:56 AM PST
by
dennisw
("What one man can do another can do" - The Edge)
To: meowmeow
"Cutlures without learning curves."
"The site is a notorious bottleneck for the massive crowds that attend the hajj pilgrimage and has seen deadly stampedes in the past, including one in 1990 that killed 1,426 people and another in February 2004 that killed 244."
Got that right
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01/12/2006 8:51:47 AM PST
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ryan71
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