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Pictured: The sprawling tent city as 3m Muslims descend on Mecca (one word: WOW!)
DailyMail.uk ^ | 09th December 2008 | staff writer

Posted on 12/10/2008 9:11:29 AM PST by yankeedame

Edited on 12/10/2008 9:19:48 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

Pictured: The sprawling tent city as 3million Muslims descend on Mecca for holy Islamic pilgrimage

These astonishing images show a vast tent city housing thousands of Muslims in Saudi Arabia for the holy hajj pilgrimage....the Kabaa, Islam's holiest shrine....


Thousands of tents housing Muslim pilgrims are crowded together in Mina
near Mecca, today


Thousands throng the roads into and through the sprawling city

Later in the day, pilgrims enjoyed a feast of freshly slaughtered sheep, goats and camels at a huge tent city in Mina, a desert valley east of Islam's holiest city, Mecca, where the Kabaa resides....

Similar sacrifices, marking the start of the Eid al- Adha, or Feast of the Sacrifice...commemorates a story celebrated by Muslims...in which God asked the prophet Abraham to sacrifice his son to prove his faith, but then in the end offered a sheep to kill instead...


This aerial image made from a helicopter shows tens of thousands of Muslim pilgrims moving around the Kaaba, the black cube seen at centre

Moderator note: Getty image deleted
Saudi policemen monitor CCTV screens of Muslims
performing the annual hajj pilgrimage


Turned on its head: A helicopter view of the city

Col.Khaled al-Mahmadi, the head of security at the Jamarat, said precautionary measures have been taken to avoid a stampede...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: hajj; islam; jihad; mecca; stealthjihad
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1 posted on 12/10/2008 9:11:30 AM PST by yankeedame
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To: yankeedame

I hope someone remembered the Lysol.


2 posted on 12/10/2008 9:12:42 AM PST by Slapshot68
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To: yankeedame

Where’s the Daisey Cutter when you need it!


3 posted on 12/10/2008 9:12:47 AM PST by angcat ("When the strong man, fully armed, guards his own dwelling, his goods are safe".)
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To: yankeedame

Wow!


4 posted on 12/10/2008 9:13:36 AM PST by caver (Yes, I did crawl out of a hole in the ground.)
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To: yankeedame

such bastions of demonry!


5 posted on 12/10/2008 9:14:19 AM PST by MNDude
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To: yankeedame
Anybody gotta match?


6 posted on 12/10/2008 9:15:02 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (Inspiration: The momentary cessation of stupidity.)
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To: yankeedame

I always find it amusing when Muslim’s claim the west wants them dead... if we did, we’d have nuked this little annual event long ago.


7 posted on 12/10/2008 9:15:17 AM PST by HamiltonJay
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To: yankeedame

It’s a classic example of a scaling problem — a religion that requires its adherents to travel to a specific place at least once in their lives runs into problems when it grows to the point of including a billion people.


8 posted on 12/10/2008 9:15:30 AM PST by steve-b (Intelligent design is to evolutionary biology what socialism is to free-market economics.)
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To: yankeedame; Alouette; Texas Republican
Similar sacrifices, marking the start of the Eid al- Adha, or Feast of the Sacrifice...commemorates a story celebrated by Muslims...in which God asked the prophet Abraham to sacrifice his son to prove his faith, but then in the end offered a sheep to kill instead...

Of course, according to the Koran, Abraham was about to sacrifice Ishmael NOT Isaac.

We have to recognise that Muslims still have a lot of devotion to their beliefs, something that has been lost in the Western world.
9 posted on 12/10/2008 9:15:33 AM PST by Cronos (Ceterum censeo, Mecca et Medina delenda est)
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To: angcat

talk about a target-rich environment .....


10 posted on 12/10/2008 9:15:33 AM PST by tgusa (Gun control: deep breath, sight alignment, squeeze the trigger ....)
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To: yankeedame

Frighteningly well organized....


11 posted on 12/10/2008 9:15:36 AM PST by anniegetyourgun
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To: yankeedame

I’ve got one word, and it ain’t wow.


12 posted on 12/10/2008 9:16:00 AM PST by null and void (Hey 0bama? There will be a pop quiz every day for the next four years...miss a question, people die.)
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To: yankeedame

...where the Kabaa is....

you mean the large black stone with the metal vagina over it? that’s what it’s all about behind this insanity.


13 posted on 12/10/2008 9:16:09 AM PST by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: yankeedame
I have to admit that that is an impressive gathering.

I wonder what the over/under would be on how long you would live if you cried out "Repent and be baptized!"

14 posted on 12/10/2008 9:16:20 AM PST by Jibaholic ("Those people who are not ruled by God will be ruled by tyrants." --William Penn)
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To: tgusa

All our problems would be wiped out with one shot!


15 posted on 12/10/2008 9:16:40 AM PST by angcat ("When the strong man, fully armed, guards his own dwelling, his goods are safe".)
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To: yankeedame
Do we still have neutron bombs in our arsenal?
16 posted on 12/10/2008 9:16:59 AM PST by LiberConservative ("I would have looked forward to debating anybody." -Sarah Palin)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

You know, with this many muslims together, no outside bomb would be necessary to cause such an explosion. Just start broadcasting some Israeli TV over the airwaves for a few minutes.


17 posted on 12/10/2008 9:17:19 AM PST by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: Cronos

Devotion at the point of a sword.


18 posted on 12/10/2008 9:17:19 AM PST by brytlea (You can fool enough of the people enough of the time.)
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To: yankeedame

TRE


19 posted on 12/10/2008 9:17:23 AM PST by SolidWood (Sarah Palin - Everything that is Sweetness and Light! WE STAND WITH HER!)
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To: yankeedame

How many of them will go against us?


20 posted on 12/10/2008 9:18:05 AM PST by Islaminaction
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