Posted on 09/24/2015 7:31:38 AM PDT by grundle
At least 717 pilgrims were killed on Thursday in a stampede outside the Muslim holy city of Mecca, Saudi authorities said, the worst disaster to strike the annual hajj pilgrimage in 25 years.
At least 805 others were injured in the crush at Mina, a few miles east of Mecca, caused by two large groups of pilgrims arriving together at a crossroads on their way to performing the "stoning the devil" ritual at Jamarat, Saudi civil defence said.
Thursday's disaster was the worst to befall the pilgrimage since July 1990, when 1,426 pilgrims were crushed to death in a tunnel near Mecca. Both stampedes occurred on Eid al-Adha (Feast of the Sacrifice), Islam's most important feast and the day of the stoning ritual.
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ttiuwp!!!!!!!!!!!!
Somebody found a piece of bacon on the ground and panic ensued.
Jonestown 2.0.............................
Whoa...that’s a LOT more than usual.
Only in islam.
Makes me smile. Only idiots follow islam.
Hmmm... I seem to recall a similar incident in February 2004 when over 200 suffered the same fate. I thought only cattle “stampeded”...
I doubt VERY seriously that we’re going to see any pictures of this.
We’d be doing them a favor if we nuked the rock.
hee hee
“It is written!”
Stampede during the stoning the devil ritual? Probably the devil was throwing the stones back at the people doing the stoning. A person throwing a stone is like slopitch softball. The devil returns like a Nolan Ryan fastball. No wonder they ran and had problems. I imagine Big Red hangs out around Mecca alot.
Not the worst yet. 1426 in 1990.
Hedley Lamarr: What crime did you commit.
Bart: Stampeding cattle.
Hedley Lamarr: That's not much of a crime.
Bart: Through the Vatican?
Hedley Lamarr: [smiling] Kinkyyyy. Sign here.
You don’t think Algore’s Al Jazeera will have film at 11? Too bad.
A couple of flocks of Turkeys are smarter than this sub-human trash!
Islam is a fairytale gutter religion. Make it up as you go, the masses will eat it up.
I was thinking more along the lines of Randy Johnson.
During high school gym class, the coaches always made us funnel through a narrow corridor to go to the outdoor track and field area. Cattle noises weren't just likely, they were *expected*.
Maybe some weisenheimer in the Hajj crowd "oinked".
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