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Hajj stampede death toll reaches 244
daily mail ^ | 1-8-15

Posted on 01/07/2015 6:58:25 PM PST by doug from upland

Edited on 01/07/2015 7:09:31 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

In the worst tragedy in seven years at the annual Muslim pilgrimage, 244 worshippers were trampled to death and hundreds more were hurt beneath a crush of people making their way to a ritualistic stoning of the devil.

Panic ensued when a few pilgrims fell on a bridge, and others tried to escape the push of the oncoming crowd, authorities said. Safety measures were in place at the site -- one where fatal stampedes have been frequent -- but "caution isn't stronger than fate," Saudi Hajj Minister Iyad Madani said.


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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: deathtoll; devil; hajj; hajjstampede; muslims; muslimworld; satan; stampede
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To: doug from upland

Ok just read it and I just don’t see what is the problem. Hmmm what is the problem? O well perhaps I will look into it again when it happens again, as for now I don’t give a hoot. =)

At least the mooslims are practicing the final solution for mooslim overpopulations.


61 posted on 01/07/2015 8:44:52 PM PST by Patriot Babe
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To: doug from upland

Stupid Borg Cube requires x number of smashed sacrificial death cult zombies in order to maintain equilibrium. It’s a good start. Need more. MORE!!


62 posted on 01/07/2015 8:47:32 PM PST by bluejean (The lunatics are running the asylum)
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To: MeshugeMikey

A little respect, please.

Did you know he served in Vietnam?


63 posted on 01/07/2015 8:48:45 PM PST by 353FMG
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To: NTHockey

A perfect human sacrifice to the blood-thirsty Moon Demon.


64 posted on 01/07/2015 8:53:44 PM PST by Gasshog (DemoKKKrats: Leaders of the Free Stuff World)
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To: doug from upland

That’s lots more than the Who concert in Cincinnati.


65 posted on 01/07/2015 9:00:09 PM PST by Paleo Conservative (Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not really out to get you.)
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To: doug from upland

“stoning the devil”

I would not feel so all alone,
Everybody must get stoned.


67 posted on 01/07/2015 9:06:40 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: angelsonmyside

In 1981, I had to go to the Jeddah airport to meet some official travelers. It was the hajj month and to say that it was mobbed would be an understatement. Most of the hadjis were from Africa and I doubt if any of them had been more than a chip shot from their home villages in their lives and had no idea how to behave when and where other people were involved. The sea of humanity kept going back and forth and it took me almost an hour to navigate through them to get to my guys in the arrivals hall. They were being met by yet another surging mass trying to get back to Burkina Faso, carrying booty not available in Ougadougou, like air-conditioners. A few years later they built a new airport so it is probably better now.


68 posted on 01/07/2015 9:07:09 PM PST by Ax
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To: 353FMG; MeshugeMikey
Did you know he served in Vietnam?

Which side?

69 posted on 01/07/2015 10:21:49 PM PST by Paleo Conservative (Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not really out to get you.)
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To: doug from upland

Makes me smile. But only 244?


70 posted on 01/07/2015 10:39:17 PM PST by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan
But only 244?

"Day ain't over yet."

71 posted on 01/07/2015 10:44:32 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: doug from upland

I guess Mecca during hajj is their WalMart on Black Friday....


72 posted on 01/08/2015 4:37:28 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: Roger Kaputnik

Stampede killed them? At least the mess will be easier to clean up than trying to match severed heads with bodies.

Sorry, I couldn’t resist.


73 posted on 01/08/2015 4:52:25 AM PST by DaveA37
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To: RobinOfKingston
If they’re all mohamedans, where’s the tragedy?

The tragedy is that they died before repenting and abandoning their demonic ideology masquerading as a religion. Let us pray for the conversion of ALL the mohammedans. Jesus saves. "Allah"??? Not so much ...

74 posted on 01/08/2015 4:56:22 AM PST by NorthMountain
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To: DoughtyOne

Wonder how it all looked on satellite?

Hajj means BIG money for Saudi royals. A perfect monopoly & disasters like this won’t affect it in the slightest.


75 posted on 01/08/2015 5:13:25 AM PST by elcid1970 ("I am a radicalized infidel.")
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To: doug from upland

Shame the death toll number was so low...


76 posted on 01/08/2015 5:23:30 AM PST by mythenjoseph (Separation of powers)
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To: SkyPilot
There is an actual Hadith saying which promotes dying on the Hajj as being a much greater death and providing for a better life in Paradise.

06 - Dying While on the Way to Hajj It has been narrated from Aba Abdillah [Imam Ja'far Ibn Muhammad as-Sadiq] (peace be upon him) that he said, "A person who dies while proceeding towards Makkah or while returning back (from Makkah) will be protected from the great distress of the Day of Resurrection."
77 posted on 01/08/2015 6:48:49 AM PST by wbarmy (I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
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The most deadly Hajj-related incident was a 1990 stampede in which 1,426 pilgrims were killed.

Ahh, yes. The 1990 stampede. I remember it like it was yesterday.


78 posted on 01/08/2015 7:12:27 AM PST by doug from upland (Obama and the leftists - destroying our country one day at a time)
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To: 353FMG

yes and there as always... it was john john kerry...serving john john kerry


79 posted on 01/08/2015 7:37:50 AM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: doug from upland

Ah yes, the annual running of the Hajis.


80 posted on 01/08/2015 7:38:40 AM PST by AU72
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