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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.
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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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To: yankeedame
I hope someone remembered the Lysol.
To: yankeedame
Where’s the Daisey Cutter when you need it!
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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".)
To: yankeedame
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posted on
12/10/2008 9:13:36 AM PST
by
caver
(Yes, I did crawl out of a hole in the ground.)
To: yankeedame
such bastions of demonry!
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posted on
12/10/2008 9:14:19 AM PST
by
MNDude
To: yankeedame
Anybody gotta match?
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posted on
12/10/2008 9:15:02 AM PST
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(Inspiration: The momentary cessation of stupidity.)
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.
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.
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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.)
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.
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posted on
12/10/2008 9:15:33 AM PST
by
Cronos
(Ceterum censeo, Mecca et Medina delenda est)
To: angcat
talk about a target-rich environment .....
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posted on
12/10/2008 9:15:33 AM PST
by
tgusa
(Gun control: deep breath, sight alignment, squeeze the trigger ....)
To: yankeedame
Frighteningly well organized....
To: yankeedame
I’ve got one word, and it ain’t wow.
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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.)
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.
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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.)
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!"
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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)
To: tgusa
All our problems would be wiped out with one shot!
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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".)
To: yankeedame
Do we still have neutron bombs in our arsenal?
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posted on
12/10/2008 9:16:59 AM PST
by
LiberConservative
("I would have looked forward to debating anybody." -Sarah Palin)
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.
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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.)
To: Cronos
Devotion at the point of a sword.
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posted on
12/10/2008 9:17:19 AM PST
by
brytlea
(You can fool enough of the people enough of the time.)
To: yankeedame
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posted on
12/10/2008 9:17:23 AM PST
by
SolidWood
(Sarah Palin - Everything that is Sweetness and Light! WE STAND WITH HER!)
To: yankeedame
How many of them will go against us?
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