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Title: Hundreds dead in Mecca Crush Post by: bobAlike on September 24, 2015, 03:33:40 PM http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-34346449
Horrendous scenes. Title: Re: Hundreds dead in Mecca Crush Post by: tikay on September 25, 2015, 12:55:42 PM Amazing how little interest about this in the Western media. And it seems (iirc) to happen quite often. The scale of the whole thing is extraordinary, whole industries are founded upon arranging travel to Mecca every year. Part of the ritual involves stoning a statue. Some of these photos (next post) are gruesome, so don't read further if that kind of thing offends. Title: Re: Hundreds dead in Mecca Crush Post by: tikay on September 25, 2015, 12:57:23 PM (http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/09/24/16/2CB7FEC600000578-3247269-image-a-34_1443106902688.jpg) (http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/09/24/12/2CB55A5B00000578-3247269-image-m-48_1443093895904.jpg) (http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/09/24/12/2CB55A7D00000578-3247269-image-a-50_1443094067025.jpg) (http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/09/24/16/2CB7ED8B00000578-3247269-image-a-44_1443107334455.jpg) (http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/09/24/14/2CB60B6A00000578-3247269-image-a-74_1443100551422.jpg) Title: Re: Hundreds dead in Mecca Crush Post by: Skippy on September 25, 2015, 01:00:32 PM Amazing how little interest about this in the Western media. And it seems (iirc) to happen quite often. The scale of the whole thing is extraordinary, whole industries are founded upon arranging travel to Mecca every year. Part of the ritual involves stoning a statue. Some of these photos (next post) are gruesome, so don't read further if that kind of thing offends. There's been loads of interest, it was and is the top story on BBC news right now, there was lots on Radio 5 last night, it was a big story on the front of all broadsheets apart from the telegraph (who had it on a sidebar on the front page). Title: Re: Hundreds dead in Mecca Crush Post by: buzzharvey22 on September 25, 2015, 01:01:55 PM Amazing how little interest about this in the Western media. And it seems (iirc) to happen quite often. The scale of the whole thing is extraordinary, whole industries are founded upon arranging travel to Mecca every year. Part of the ritual involves stoning a statue. Some of these photos (next post) are gruesome, so don't read further if that kind of thing offends. I work with a few Muslim ladies and one of them was talking to me about it a couple of days ago. She said expect there to be thousands dead as it happens every year. She went 3 years ago whilst 6 months pregnant and said it was the worst 5 days of her life. 10s of thousands of tents all lined up with large families in each tent. Bare minimum water and food to survive and she could see people staying around her about to die due to starvation, dehydration and exhaustion. Families from other tents in the surrounding area's were still giving all of their food and water resources to her after spotting she was pregnant. And people still go back every year. amazing. Title: Re: Hundreds dead in Mecca Crush Post by: tikay on September 25, 2015, 01:03:31 PM The sheer scale of the pilgrimage takes some believing. (http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/09/24/20/2CB99F6300000578-3247269-image-a-19_1443124686850.jpg) (http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/09/24/21/2CB7EAB500000578-3247269-image-a-23_1443125539950.jpg) (http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/09/24/21/2CB9242500000578-3247269-image-a-26_1443125580765.jpg) (http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/09/24/21/2CB8C25E00000578-3247269-image-a-28_1443125626782.jpg) (http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/09/24/10/2CB4B7FB00000578-3247269-image-a-18_1443086388395.jpg) (http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/09/24/16/2CB5980900000578-3247269-image-a-31_1443106848491.jpg) (http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/09/23/15/2CABFDE100000578-3246308-image-a-46_1443018401611.jpg) (http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/09/23/14/2CABB28200000578-0-image-a-2_1443015587321.jpg) (http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/09/23/15/2CAD49E400000578-3246308-image-m-3_1443018808403.jpg) (http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/09/23/15/2CABFF6300000578-3246308-image-a-47_1443018404067.jpg) (http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/09/23/14/2CABB0BC00000578-0-image-m-19_1443015680031.jpg) (http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/09/23/15/2CABF94900000578-3246308-image-a-4_1443018936421.jpg) Title: Re: Hundreds dead in Mecca Crush Post by: tikay on September 25, 2015, 01:06:25 PM Amazing how little interest about this in the Western media. And it seems (iirc) to happen quite often. The scale of the whole thing is extraordinary, whole industries are founded upon arranging travel to Mecca every year. Part of the ritual involves stoning a statue. Some of these photos (next post) are gruesome, so don't read further if that kind of thing offends. There's been loads of interest, it was and is the top story on BBC news right now, there was lots on Radio 5 last night, it was a big story on the front of all broadsheets apart from the telegraph (who had it on a sidebar on the front page). Ahh, my bad. The Times had a front page photo, but only saw fit to cover it on pages 36 & 37. |