It happens every year, yet
Saudi Arabia wasn't prepared;
A stampede during the annual Hajj pilgrimage to Islam’s holiest city on
Thursday left at least 717 people dead and another 863 injured, Saudi
officials said.
Forewarned;
In 2006 more than 346 pilgrims were killed in a stampede in the same
area. A panicked charge in a pedestrian tunnel leading from Mecca to
Mina left 1,426 people dead in 1990.
But the forearms did their thing;
In the case of Thursday’s disaster, hundreds of thousands of pilgrims
encamped in tents in Mina were moving en masse to Jamarat to throw
pebbles against three stone walls in a symbolic stoning of the devil
when the stampede occurred.
Democracy begins with self-control.
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