Thursday, December 28, 2006

It's Hajjing time again

It's that time of year again.

I wonder if British bookies take bets on how many pilgrims will get trampled to death this time round. They take bets on everything else under the sun, I'd guess they have this covered too.

300? 700? 1200?

There's gotta be a better way to worship.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hopefully that will not happen....I read where men are not allowed to wear clothing with stitching - no doubt there is some very good reason for that.

Nanuk of the North, older but no wiser said...

The news is on right now, and they said that last year the total dead in the stampede was over 300.

It seems like it happens every year.

Anonymous said...

I was going to guess 500. It does happen every year and you'd think they'd figure out a way to avoid it after, I don't know, the eighth time. Anyway, how do you wear clothes without stitching?