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Stampede kills hundreds at Hajj pilgrimage
kmbc.com ^ | September 24, 2015 | Faith Karimi and Schams Elwazer

Posted on 09/24/2015 4:08:14 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012

(CNN) —A stampede during one of the last rituals of the Hajj season -- the annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca -- has killed more than 300 people and injured 450 others in Saudi Arabia.

The stampede occurred Thursday during the ritual known as "stoning the devil" in the tent city of Mina, about 2 miles from Mecca, Islam's holiest city.

Hundreds have been killed in past years during the same ceremony.

"We have a stampede accident in Mina, and civil defense is dealing with it," said Brig. Gen. Mansour al-Turki, an Interior Ministry spokesman.

The ministry said the latest death toll is 310, but the numbers have been climbing steadily. Officials deployed 4,000 workers and 220 ambulances and other vehicles to Mina to help with the disaster.

In the ritual, crowds of pilgrims throw stones at three pillars, in a re-enactment of an event when the Prophet Abraham stoned the devil and rejected his temptations, according to Muslim traditions.

The ceremony was the scene of stampedes and hundreds of deaths in the 1980s and 1990s as pilgrims passed a crowded bottleneck area leading to the small pillars on the ground.

In 2006, a stampede there killed at least 363 people.

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To: EvilCapitalist
Congratulations! HEHE!
121 posted on 09/24/2015 10:59:26 AM PDT by caww
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To: muggs
717 people died At least 863 others were injured Caused by two large groups of pilgrims arriving together at a crossroads on their way to throw stones at the devil......Rotflol....this appears to be where the bottle neck happened ....


122 posted on 09/24/2015 11:03:12 AM PDT by caww
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To: cripplecreek

Oh my gosh. The deception of Satan.

And the country officially bans the Gospel from open promotion.


123 posted on 09/24/2015 11:54:33 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

Correct. Things like this make me think of Luke 9:51-56.

On 9/11/2001 and immediately afterwards, it was hard for me to think that way, though. No doubt the jihadis will strike again.


124 posted on 09/24/2015 11:58:58 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: ilovesarah2012

It’s a start....


125 posted on 09/24/2015 12:28:33 PM PDT by traumer
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To: xp38

A few thousand more would be good.


126 posted on 09/24/2015 12:44:18 PM PDT by R. Scott (Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink)
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To: cripplecreek

Kind of reminds me of that joke about a bus full of lawyers crashing. . . no downside at all.


127 posted on 09/24/2015 1:40:02 PM PDT by Hulka
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To: ilovesarah2012

This is hot on the heels of the lightning hitting the crane and it falling on a group of them the other week.

I saw that as God sending them a warning. This incident yesterday surely is their second warning from God.

I await God’s third and final warning to them.


128 posted on 09/24/2015 4:02:59 PM PDT by Lucy Hamilton (Lucy from Occupied Europa)
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To: Lucy Hamilton

you are delusional


129 posted on 09/24/2015 4:05:57 PM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ....carson is the kinder gentler trump)
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To: bert

????


130 posted on 09/24/2015 4:07:47 PM PDT by Lucy Hamilton (Lucy from Occupied Europa)
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To: Abathar
Turds are confined to septic tanks then decay or sewage treatment plants. Sometimes turds fertilize the soil.

In the end, turds are somewhat beneficial. The question is, what is beneficial about Islam for the human race?

To any lurkers out there who respect this belief; what has Islam given to humanity once they "shook off" the Heliocentric influence (Scalpels, algebra, etc...) that dominated their progress until the latter part of the Middle-Ages? Once Europe discovered the New World and created a logistic stronghold, the Ottoman Empire was no match for them anymore. So quit your Islamic progress canard; Islam at its root is just a death cult.
131 posted on 09/24/2015 6:02:39 PM PDT by rollo tomasi (Working hard to pay for deadbeats and corrupt politicians.)
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To: Abathar; GraceG
I must regress in my own description; hurricanes do serve a purpose after all since they are a good source to replenish the water supply. So I yield to GraceG’s description unless black holes ultimately serve a positive phenomenon to the human race.

If so, the default position will be that Islam is just a dingle berry from Satan's bunghole that was allowed to be picked and flicked onto human history.
132 posted on 09/24/2015 6:11:12 PM PDT by rollo tomasi (Working hard to pay for deadbeats and corrupt politicians.)
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To: ilovesarah2012

These stampedes happen regularly during this pilgrimage....yet nothing is ever done about it.

Speaks of their intelligence, or their lack of it.


133 posted on 09/24/2015 6:37:01 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA (war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength, obama loves America)
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To: JEDI4S

I call them dEBT cards!


134 posted on 09/24/2015 9:30:35 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

I believe that one of the ceremonial actions is the looting of liquor stores... :-)


135 posted on 09/25/2015 5:14:26 AM PDT by JEDI4S (I don't mean to cause trouble...it just happens naturally through the Force!)
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