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2004-02-01 Arabia

At Least 244 Killed in Haj Pilgrimage Stampede

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Posted by phil_b 2004-02-01 8:13:10 AM|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Damn the good luck.

dorf

Posted by Anonymous 2004-2-1 8:21:41 AM|| 2004-2-1 8:21:41 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 who could have guessed this would happen eh, maybe its just me but did others see this coming when the gathering started and burst out laughing when they heard anout this 'stampede', looks like the 'religion of peace' has done it again.

Posted by Jon Shep U.K 2004-2-1 8:24:35 AM|| 2004-2-1 8:24:35 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Oh my God, the Catholics are such pikers when it comes to this. Easter morning there has to be who knows how many people in St. Peters Square for the Papal Address and nobody, I mean nobody even stubs their toe.

Posted by Cheddarhead 2004-2-1 8:59:16 AM|| 2004-2-1 8:59:16 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 I don't believe it. 244 isn't divisible by 19

Posted by mhw 2004-2-1 9:12:08 AM|| 2004-2-1 9:12:08 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 mhw, maybe someone counted wrong and there were ONLY 243 deaths.:)
It's easy for Muslims to say insha'Allah, but the 'Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques' and his organizers must bear some responsibility.

Posted by Gasse Katze 2004-2-1 9:47:12 AM|| 2004-2-1 9:47:12 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Someone asked the other day about King Fadh's health. He is well enough to have been on hand for the stampede: Fahd, Abdullah Arrive in Mina.

Posted by Gasse Katze 2004-2-1 9:53:41 AM|| 2004-2-1 9:53:41 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Holy Mecca now has a holy mosh pit. Peace be unto the trampled.

Posted by dennisw 2004-2-1 11:41:41 AM|| 2004-2-1 11:41:41 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 Pilgrimage Affairs and Endowments Minister
How do they tell what with the Bourka and all?

Posted by Shipman 2004-2-1 11:47:03 AM|| 2004-2-1 11:47:03 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 Savages. Primative, superstitious, ignorant bloody savages.

Posted by Dave D. 2004-2-1 12:31:53 PM|| 2004-2-1 12:31:53 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Given Islam's basic tenets, I think we shouldn't criticize this particular activity. This is 244 fewer jihdists we have to kill later on.

Posted by badanov 2004-2-1 1:30:56 PM|| [http://www.rkka.org] 2004-2-1 1:30:56 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 AP had an article on this too... some highlights:

Last year, 14 pilgrims were trampled to death during the ritual and 35 died in a 2001 stampede. In 1998, 180 pilgrims died.
A bumper crop this year

The annual hajj, which began Thursday, climaxed Saturday as some 2 million Muslim pilgrims listened to Saudi Arabia's top cleric denounce terrorists, calling them an affront to Islam. However, he defended the kingdom's strict interpretation of the faith.

Sheik Abdul Aziz al-Sheik said in his sermon there were those who claim to be holy warriors, but were shedding Muslim blood and destabilizing the nation.
So go kill non-moslems

Al-Sheik also criticized the international community, accusing it of attacking Wahhabism, the strict interpretation of Islam that is applied in Saudi Arabia: "This country is based on this religion and will remain steadfast on it."
That old-time religion is good enough for you and me

Calling America "the greatest Satan," Egyptian pilgrim Youssef Omar threw pebbles at one pillar where someone scrawled "USA."
Now if America were the great Satan and was into terrorism of it's own, what better time for testing a nuke or two.....

Posted by Mercutio 2004-2-1 1:53:54 PM|| 2004-2-1 1:53:54 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 BBC had an article too:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3448779.stm
apparently another 272 have died of natural causes (e.g., heat stroke, exhaustion)

Posted by mhw 2004-2-1 4:11:21 PM|| 2004-2-1 4:11:21 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 Another Easter Tragedy, 244 die at St. Peters.

Opppss.... Sorry wrong religon.

Posted by Shipman 2004-2-1 4:57:26 PM|| 2004-2-1 4:57:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 I rather think Dr Who avoids the 7th Century in his phonebooth excursions. Prolly reads rooters dispatches.

Can you say "lemming"?

I knew you could. Just add, as Bro Dave D points out, barbarian and backward and brutal. Unfortunately, they breed far too quickly for the annual hajj insanity to have much effect. Something stronger is called for, methinks.

Posted by ,comma 2004-2-1 5:19:44 PM|| 2004-2-1 5:19:44 PM|| Front Page Top

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