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Mecca sees over 1,000 deaths during the Hajj, a pilgrimage threatened by climate change
Le Monde ^ | June 21, 2024 | Laure Stephan (Beirut (Lebanon) correspondent), Audrey Garric and Eliott Brachet (Cairo, corresponde

Posted on 06/21/2024 7:10:18 AM PDT by Red Badger

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To: Red Badger

Islamic Darwin Award winners. Is this a bad thing? Asking for a friend...


21 posted on 06/21/2024 8:11:46 AM PDT by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it." )
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To: Red Badger

Lacking no comparison to previous years puts the lie to this story.

Note, many who go on this do so late in life — way down on the bucket list. Soo, most vulnerable.


22 posted on 06/21/2024 8:20:43 AM PDT by bobbo666 (Baizuo, )
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To: Red Badger

Higher Power does not accept hajj, nothing to do with climate change.


23 posted on 06/21/2024 8:32:21 AM PDT by 353FMG
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To: bobbo666
Interesting novel on the subject


24 posted on 06/21/2024 8:32:59 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (The country bounces along like Custer on the way to Little Big Horn, thanks to Dear Leader)
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To: brownsfan

It’s too bad it wasn’t a million.


25 posted on 06/21/2024 8:42:35 AM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Red Badger

Right - climate change just in that area.


26 posted on 06/21/2024 8:43:22 AM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Am Yisrael Chai ~)
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To: Red Badger

More people are trampled to death than succumb to the heat


27 posted on 06/21/2024 9:09:40 AM PDT by oil_dude
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To: Tell It Right
Until 622 Muhammad lived in Mecca so he didn't have to go far to visit the Ka'ba. The Ka'ba was already the destination of pilgrims before him, for pagan Arabs.

Because the Muslim calendar is 11 days shorter than a solar year, the Hajj isn't always in summer. Muslims who feel the need to fulfill their obligation could wait 10 or 15 years and go when it's not such a hot part of the year.

28 posted on 06/21/2024 9:34:34 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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Mecca sees over 1,000 deaths during the Hajj

Well, it seems like a good start.


29 posted on 06/21/2024 9:44:22 AM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys-Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat-But they know what's best for you.)
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To: Red Badger

Aka “a good start”


30 posted on 06/21/2024 9:57:44 AM PDT by montag813
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Because it has never been hot in the desert.....


31 posted on 06/21/2024 10:03:13 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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Climate change? People have been dying on a hajj for the last 1400 years when it hits in summer. Supposedly a guarantee of “paradise”.


32 posted on 06/21/2024 10:56:49 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( Government is not reason, it is not eloquence-it is force!--G. Washington)
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In other news...Hadj T-shirt sales are down this year.


33 posted on 06/22/2024 6:15:08 AM PDT by moovova ("The NEXT ELECTION is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Should have hit the “targets” after 9/11. Even I (an idiot) knew saudi royals were involved …..


34 posted on 06/22/2024 6:55:18 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (The enemy has US surrounded. May God have mercy on them.)
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1,300 ‘most vulnerable’ Hajj pilgrims died from heat wave in Saudi Arabia

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2024/06/23/eg-1301-die-in-hajj/4471719181744/


35 posted on 06/23/2024 10:30:23 PM PDT by Texan4Life
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