dawn breaks on millions of Moslems

[franksolich]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1329826/Sea-white-dawn-breaks-millions-Muslims-undertaking-annual-Hajj-pilgrimage-Mecca.html

Dawn breaks on millions of Muslims as the annual Hajj pilgrimage draws to a close... and Eid festival begins

In scenes that haven't changed for more than a thousand years, nearly three million Muslims began congregating for the annual hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia today.

At dawn, they started to making their way up the rocky desert path to Mountain of Mercy at Arafat, chanting that they have come to answer God's call.

The white-robed pilgrims formed an endless sea of white as their chants 'Labyek Allah' or 'Here I am, God, answering your calling' reverberated overhead......

Profusely illustrated with photographs, but not the one I had hoped to see.

Two, three, four, years ago, there was a photograph of white-garbed Moslem women at this pilgrimage, shoulder-to-shoulder, a sea of women, all of them covered, looking very much as if a phenomenon that could not possibly exist in this world today.  A very stark, haunting photograph, border-to-border (borders on the photograph) covered-up white-garbed women.

A remarkable photograph, and I meant to save it at the time, but alas didn't.

It was a very instructive photograph, reminding us that the rest of the world lives very much differently from the ways we do.

[ExGeeEye]

I'm suddenly reminded of something Pete Mitchell said to Nick Bradshaw as they entered the "O" Club at Miramar.

[thundley4]

Talk about a "target rich environment".   

[vesta111]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1329826/Sea-white-dawn-breaks-millions-Muslims-undertaking-annual-Hajj-pilgrimage-Mecca.html

Profusely illustrated with photographs, but not the one I had hoped to see.

Two, three, four, years ago, there was a photograph of white-garbed Moslem women at this pilgrimage, shoulder-to-shoulder, a sea of women, all of them covered, looking very much as if a phenomenon that could not possibly exist in this world today.  A very stark, haunting photograph, border-to-border (borders on the photograph) covered-up white-garbed women.

A remarkable photograph, and I meant to save it at the time, but alas didn't.

It was a very instructive photograph, reminding us that the rest of the world lives very much differently from the ways we do.

So what Frank, is this to be derided for any reason.??

As a child I attended sunrise services for Christians at EASTER.

Darn cold out, everyone wore WHITE and at times had to grin and bare the cold.  Regardless it was a time of faith that stands out in my memory as a child, the Easter Bonnet, the white shoes, knees knocking  from the cold as the sun rose. Some protestant congregations still to this day continue the tradition on the same spot.

Check out Mexico at Easter where grown men will actually have their hands nailed to a cross and be paraded about town, Catholic tradition in those parts.

The Jews have their traditions that raise the hair on the back of my head, because I know that Jesus himself saw and heard the same thing I was seeing 2000 years later. Magnificent and a wonder to behold.

One has to see that tradition of religion or heritage and following it for eons is a human need.  One must belong somewhere and be able to take comfort from the line they come from.

[JohnnyReb]

Talk about a "target rich environment".   

Where else could you find that many Muslim only targets.....

Lets see here, 3,000 WTC victims, 3,000,000 Muslims at one clip.
1,000 to 1 kill ratio....hey, that's pretty good.

[franksolich]

So what Frank, is this to be derided for any reason.??

No, not at all; it's not to be derided.

It's just a stark reminder that the rest of the world is much different from us.

It's a very evocative photograph.

<<franksolich is not known to have malicious motives.....about anything.

[Martina]

Talk about a "target rich environment".   

My thoughts exactly! What an opportunity missed!

[Mr Mannn]

I'm waiting for the inevitable stampede that tramples to death several hundred. Happens almost every year.

[JohnnyReb]

I'm waiting for the inevitable stampede that tramples to death several hundred. Happens almost every year.

Yeah, them Baptist preachers go wild when they put the fried chicken on the table.

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

What a beautiful sunrise.

[JohnnyReb]

What a beautiful sunrise.

It has always amazed me the amount of energy in just a few pounds of the good stuff.....and the sun has millions of those explosions every day.

[franksolich]

You know, I've googled page after page of "images" and still can't find that particular photograph.

I believe it was dutch508 or ColonialMarine or TxRadioguy who originally posted it here, maybe a little more than a year ago.

It was a very poignant, very haunting, photograph, and I think people really need to see it--it should even be in junior-high textbooks--as a stark reminder that the rest of the world doesn't live the same way, think the same way, as we do.

[true_blood]

You know, I've googled page after page of "images" and still can't find that particular photograph.
I believe it was dutch508 or ColonialMarine or TxRadioguy who originally posted it here, maybe a little more than a year ago.
It was a very poignant, very haunting, photograph, and I think people really need to see it--it should even be in junior-high textbooks--as a stark reminder that the rest of the world doesn't live the same way, think the same way, as we do.

[littlelamb]

Where else could you find that many Muslim only targets.....

Lets see here, 3,000 WTC victims, 3,000,000 Muslims at one clip.
1,000 to 1 kill ratio....hey, that's pretty good.

Took the words right out of my mouth

[vesta111]

You know, I've googled page after page of "images" and still can't find that particular photograph.

I believe it was dutch508 or ColonialMarine or TxRadioguy who originally posted it here, maybe a little more than a year ago.

It was a very poignant, very haunting, photograph, and I think people really need to see it--it should even be in junior-high textbooks--as a stark reminder that the rest of the world doesn't live the same way, think the same way, as we do.

It is imposable Frank for Americans to live or understand  any other civilisation thousands of years old.  To be sure we carry on the traditions of our family's that came here with in the last 300 years, or  15 years ago, but outside of the Latino  only 600 years old,  influx, most people  have melded into the American boiling pot of civilisations.

We are mere infants in the world of civilisations,  with inter marrage of faith and nationality, YES we are different.   Americans look different from each other, come from different backgrounds and different faiths.

We can by looking at another tell who came from another stock then us, when asked for my race I put down the human race. 

Head to India, 90 % of the people look alike, dress alike and follow their traditions.

Racial careerists are dominate in most other country's , in America it is a toss up for us mongrels that have parentage from 3-7 different country's in our DNA.

What do we Americans have as a traditional dress--nothing really.   Check out Japan, VM, India China---they belong to society's that are instantly recognised any where in the world. Scots have kilts as do the Irish.  Germen and Swiss have their clothing as does most of Europe.  African tribes on to the Hawaii Islands have their clothing. 


Frank we are different and radical from even our Mother country England.

In America we do not bow or curtsy to the leaders.  In America when a new president goes into office he or she is not inaugurated as our forefathers were, no horse drawn carage, no ruffled shirts or top hats.

America is an experiment in world history, a darn good one so far.  We have had our OOPSIES here and there good and evil, but people will still sit on inner tubes in shark infected waters to come here.

I understand how people born anywhere else with no hope as we have is sad, as a child I say the photos in Life or Look Magazine of the devastation caused by Mercury to the children in Japan--- some photos never leave the mind.

[franksolich]

Well, vesta, dear, my bitch is this: many people just don't understand how different the rest of the world is, from us.

For example, a moonbat acquaintance in March 2003 thought it was too bad George Bush was bombing Baghdad because it would interrupt the Iraqis' weekly trip to Wal-Mart.

This person was no kid, and had in fact been a voter for decades.

People really need to understand this; the rest of the world is different from thee and me.

[JohnnyReb]

Well, vesta, dear, my bitch is this: many people just don't understand how different the rest of the world is, from us.

For example, a moonbat acquaintance in March 2003 thought it was too bad George Bush was bombing Baghdad because it would interrupt the Iraqis' weekly trip to Wal-Mart.

This person was no kid, and had in fact been a voter for decades.

People really need to understand this; the rest of the world is different from thee and me.

Exactly....they don't think like we do, at all. But liberals think they all have the same toucky-feely emotional thought patterns they do......hey liberal, they hate your guts and want to kill you... how many times will they have to show you that before you'll believe what they say.

[vesta111]

Well, vesta, dear, my bitch is this: many people just don't understand how different the rest of the world is, from us.

For example, a moonbat acquaintance in March 2003 thought it was too bad George Bush was bombing Baghdad because it would interrupt the Iraqis' weekly trip to Wal-Mart.

This person was no kid, and had in fact been a voter for decades.

People really need to understand this; the rest of the world is different from thee and me.

Yup, in Japan public baths are the normal thing, In India it is normal to allow a village to starve to death but allow 10 cows to wander about.

Females are disfigured to insure they stay faithfull to a husband 10 years down the road.

I could go on and on Frank, but what good does it do to me to know about others traditions unless I am going to live among them.

It should be a must to send troops into areas of the world that have laws and rules much different from their own country, and educate these Americans on what they can or cannot do on foreign soil.

Some of the female troops in the middle east were upset because they could not leave the base unless they dressed in face covers and flowing robes.

Some of the Ports the navy uses overseas has regulations on the Sailors and even tourists on what they could or could not do in their country.

Spain in the 1970 before we pulled out of Rota it was illegal to display the US Flag on clothing or back packs.

The Merchant Marine that goes every where is the most knowledgeable of the rules off ship in all country's.

America has this new idea that its citizens must follow the laws of the land.   
Anyone from any foreign country has the right how ever they got here to decide what laws they wish to follow.

 

[DLR Pyro]

What a beautiful sunrise.

Sunrise over mecca.  One can only wish....

[true_blood]

Sunrise over mecca.  One can only wish....