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The hajj WILL go ahead: Religious leaders confirm Islam's mass pilgrimage to Mecca goes ahead
Daily Mail UK ^ | September 12, 2015 | Imogen Calderwood and Jack Crone for MailOnline

Posted on 09/12/2015 7:54:37 AM PDT by COUNTrecount

The hajj WILL go ahead: Religious leaders confirm Islam's mass pilgrimage to Mecca goes ahead this month despite the crane disaster killing 107 there yesterday

Saudi official announced today that the hajj will go ahead in Mecca despite the horror of yesterday's crane collapse An investigation has been launched in the disaster as critics claim authorities were negligent in allowing the cranes Authorities issued extreme weather warnings and earlier photos capture mosque being struck by lightning ceiling Crane is part of massive project to increase the area of the mosque to accommodate 2.2million people at once A Saudi official has confirmed that the annual hajj to Mecca will go ahead, despite the horrific crane disaster that killed 107 people and wounded 238 in the city yesterday.

The tragedy occurred when a crane crashed through the ceiling of the Grand Mosque of Mecca, the largest mosque in the world, amid high winds and thunderstorms on Friday afternoon.

An investigation has been launched today, to probe claims that the health and safety standards at the mosque were insufficient.

Some critics have claimed that the authorities were negligent in allowing a series of cranes to tower over the site, as hundreds of thousands of Muslims converge at the holy site for the annual hajj pilgrimage.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 911; allah; allahakbar; allahswill; industrialaccidents; mecca
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To: COUNTrecount

Should be very interesting with tensions between the Shiites and Sunis the way they are now.


2 posted on 09/12/2015 7:56:34 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.)
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To: COUNTrecount

Apparently they missed the warning from God.

Next up will be a meteor.


3 posted on 09/12/2015 8:07:50 AM PDT by sevlex
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To: COUNTrecount

It’s a huge moneymaker....


4 posted on 09/12/2015 8:12:17 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: cripplecreek

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/nov/14/mecca-hajj-saudi-arabia


5 posted on 09/12/2015 8:15:54 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: sevlex

Amazing in happened on 9/11? God will not be mocked.


6 posted on 09/12/2015 8:16:07 AM PDT by cameraeye (A happy khafir!)
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To: sevlex

Or better yet, a Comet...


7 posted on 09/12/2015 8:16:12 AM PDT by Shady (We are at war again......this time for our lives...)
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To: COUNTrecount

Isn’t there a major fault zone running through that area?


8 posted on 09/12/2015 8:22:40 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: COUNTrecount

May cranes be upon them.


9 posted on 09/12/2015 8:39:12 AM PDT by beethovenfan (Islam is a cancer on civilization.)
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To: fella

Oh, yeah, there is a huge fault zone. It isn’t geologic, but it is real.

These idiots are crazy. What if Iran decides to warn off all their supporters one year, then drops one of their new Obama nukes on that big black square idol?


10 posted on 09/12/2015 8:41:01 AM PDT by FreeAtlanta (Restore Liberty!)
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To: beethovenfan

Does the crane get 72 little forklifts?


11 posted on 09/12/2015 8:41:36 AM PDT by FreeAtlanta (Restore Liberty!)
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12 posted on 09/12/2015 8:43:51 AM PDT by Impala64ssa (You call me an islamophobe like it's a bad thing.)
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To: COUNTrecount

A good start?


13 posted on 09/12/2015 8:56:45 AM PDT by oldplayer
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To: COUNTrecount
Those tourists are money!


14 posted on 09/12/2015 9:00:30 AM PDT by Lx (Do you like it? Do you like it, Scott? I call it, "Mr. & Mrs. Tenorman Chili.")
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To: Sacajaweau

This is the bottomline.

regards,


15 posted on 09/12/2015 9:20:10 AM PDT by Thunder 6
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To: FreeAtlanta

Stepladders, I think. Inshallah.

regards,


16 posted on 09/12/2015 9:22:26 AM PDT by Thunder 6
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17 posted on 09/12/2015 9:22:39 AM PDT by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
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To: beethovenfan

ROFL ROFL


18 posted on 09/12/2015 9:29:28 AM PDT by Patriot Babe
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Wow! Project Aggressive Lightning is working.. D'OH! I wasn't suppose to mention that name . . . .

:)

19 posted on 09/12/2015 10:18:46 AM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: JoeProBono

107 dead mozlums? Am I supposed to be sad? I call that a good start. Piss and $#it be upon them and their pedophile misogynist “prophet”.


20 posted on 09/12/2015 10:59:04 AM PDT by bicyclerepair (Ft. Lauderdale FL (zombie land). TERM LIMITS ... TERM LIMITS)
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