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Pictured: The sprawling tent city as 3m Muslims descend on Mecca (one word: WOW!)
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| 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: All
“I say we nuke the site from orbit...it’s the only way to be sure.”
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posted on
12/10/2008 9:42:43 AM PST
by
4yearlurker
(I'm shoveling snow instead of raking leaves. Global warming my A$$!)
To: LiberConservative
Do we still have neutron bombs in our arsenal?At first I didn't understand why a standard nuke wouldn't work better and then it occured to me. Repeat if infestation recurs.
62
posted on
12/10/2008 9:43:47 AM PST
by
magslinger
(What is the fastest growing oppressed minority in America? Hoplophiles.)
To: angcat
Where’s a w88 when you need one
63
posted on
12/10/2008 9:44:07 AM PST
by
omega4179
( Those who can't write, write the news)
To: yankeedame
You know, as satisfying as the thought of nuking Mecca might be, I think I have a better and ultimately more fiendish idea...aerosolized bacon grease.
64
posted on
12/10/2008 9:44:16 AM PST
by
RichInOC
(Obama/Biden '08: "We Are Not Ruled By Murderers, But Only--By Their Friends."--Rudyard Kipling)
To: Slapshot68
I hope someone remembere the Lysol. I hope someone remembered the porta potties. LOL
65
posted on
12/10/2008 9:45:00 AM PST
by
NRA2BFree
(From slave to President.........Hallelujah, Kunta Kinte is free at last.......)
To: yankeedame
66
posted on
12/10/2008 9:46:18 AM PST
by
JenB987
To: NRA2BFree
Notice when tent cities spring up around Mecca, it’s called a pilgrimage. When it happens in places like Jenin, it’s called apartheid.
68
posted on
12/10/2008 9:54:43 AM PST
by
clintonh8r
(For the first time in my life I'm ashamed of my country.)
To: yankeedame
Too bad there are so many of them that can’t practice their religion in peace and stop trying to kill everyone else who disagrees with them.
69
posted on
12/10/2008 9:57:30 AM PST
by
reagan_fanatic
(I'll give Obama the same amount of respect the left gave Bush)
To: LiberConservative
We never *did* have neutron bombs in our arsenal.
70
posted on
12/10/2008 10:00:31 AM PST
by
postoak
To: yankeedame
Where's OBAM-O !
71
posted on
12/10/2008 10:05:51 AM PST
by
OB1kNOb
(I've discovered the secret to making a small fortune in today's market....start with a large fortune)
To: yankeedame
Three million is the low-ball esitmate for the Innauguration next month. I can only imagine the disaster potential.
72
posted on
12/10/2008 10:08:00 AM PST
by
PLMerite
("Unarmed, one can only flee from Evil. But Evil isn't overcome by fleeing from it." Jeff Cooper)
To: yankeedame
73
posted on
12/10/2008 10:18:22 AM PST
by
sheik yerbouty
( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
To: RichInOC
Pork rind would be more easily aerosolized, and the spread pattern would cover a larger area, IMHO..
74
posted on
12/10/2008 10:20:08 AM PST
by
sheik yerbouty
( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
To: sheik yerbouty
Hey, works for me.
:-D )))
75
posted on
12/10/2008 10:21:48 AM PST
by
RichInOC
(Obama/Biden '08: "We Are Not Ruled By Murderers, But Only--By Their Friends."--Rudyard Kipling)
To: Slapshot68
“I hope someone remembered the Lysol.”
My first thought....and deoderant, too.
To: RightField
Not so. I've had
cabrito, and it's pretty good if it's prepared properly.
77
posted on
12/10/2008 10:30:30 AM PST
by
George Smiley
(Palin is the real deal.)
To: yankeedame
one word: WOW!A better word is "Bullseye."
78
posted on
12/10/2008 10:32:26 AM PST
by
buccaneer81
(Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
To: Cronos
The Truth is that long, long ago, Adam and Eve were given this black rock (a meteorite) to mark where they should pray to Allah. Then, thousands of years later, Abraham came to Mecca to pray and he was about to sacrifice his son Ishmael (ancestor Of Mo), but Allah stopped him and gave him a goat to sacrifice (hence the term Bakri (goat) Eid). Are you serious, is that the Islamic version of the story? I've always thought the Dome of the Rock marked the place where they contend old Ishmael was almost sacrificed?
MM (in TX)
To: yankeedame
"I gotta be me, I've gotta be me."
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