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Five Ghanaians confirmed dead in Mecca

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  • Kwame USA 8 years ago

    Christianity and Islam is foreign to us Africans. We shouldn't be following the religion of Arabs and Whites.

    Africans are fools and we will never develop following someone elses religion

  • Amina Yakubu 8 years ago

    At least we who believe in religion are not as ignorant as you.
    May God forgive you and open you closed mind to believe in something as there is an invisible power out there. You can worship any how as long as you believe t ...
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  • Kwame USA 8 years ago

    Islam is false religion and Muhammad is a pedophile. Save your bullshit talk for someone that cares.

  • Jahra 8 years ago

    Stupid

  • CORNEY 8 years ago

    Something is wrong with us,this Amin Lamptey guy lacks leadership quality to be incharge of these people,just hours earlier this same guy said "it was premature to conclude five Ghanaians missing" and now he is telling us fi ...
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  • Musa Ibrahim 8 years ago

    WHETHER YU ACCEPT FORGIVENESS OR NOT ISLAM IS ACCEPTED BY HIGH INTELLECTUALS WORLD OVER.AMERICAN TOILET CLEANER.ISLAM IS BEEN FOLLOWED BY NEARLY 2BN PEOPLE.SO WHATS YOUR PROBLEM.

  • >?? 8 years ago

    It is only Islamic religion that a jihadist or mujahadin leader can issue death sentence to innocent people, and its illiterate followers will carry out the killing. There is no religion in this world that kills innocent peop ...
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  • TATA 8 years ago

    Muslims should know that if they have inflamable tissue attached to their butts, they should not jump over burning flames. You are full of sin and you want to stone the devil. You see what you get.

    Every year you try to st ...
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  • Kofi 8 years ago

    And when some of your billion Idiots go about killing people don"t come and tell us they are not fucking moslems.Fucked up African like you will surrender and submit to some Arabic crap!

  • AI 8 years ago

    Kwame think b4 u talk u can insult prophet mohammed and millions who are far better than u will praise him i will not curse u but pray very hard for ur end in this world u are suffering from severe ignorance if u can read go ...
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  • concern 8 years ago

    Only people who don't want to think place their hopes and lives in some unforeseen ?

  • Kofi 8 years ago

    Do you mean he should wipe his arse with that crap?

  • mahmud dauda bawa 8 years ago

    foooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool a big one for that matter. accident happen all the time should we then blame it on religion? then if does the case what happen in Nigeria some years ago too have to be blame on who ?

  • Koo Nimo 8 years ago

    Well done

  • Jahra 8 years ago

    thank you Amina

  • It's cuu 8 years ago

    Mohammed was a pedophile who defiled a 9 and 12 year old kids.

  • Kwame USA 8 years ago

    I don't follow the white man and the Arab man. I worship what my grandfather and father left me

  • Yaw 8 years ago

    May they RIP. How sad to pay this huge amount of money to travel to stone the devil while the Saudis are making billions out of this dessert ritual.

  • DON NEXT 8 years ago

    I'm extremely surprised at this day n age someone in his ryt senses will relegate Christianity n Islam to the background.wise up man

  • afadzi 8 years ago

    This guy should continue to fool himself and think that everybody will believe him

  • Amoration 8 years ago

    Kwame you are one of those miscreated baboons in our society who are polluting our atmosphere with wee.

  • A.B.Y 8 years ago

    Kwame USA, how does your Dad begin sleeping with your ugliest mother? Your Mom's pussy smells like a dead rat. The sperm that produced you as a human was a wasted one. Fuck your Dad and your entire family.

  • Neutral Zone 8 years ago

    Air head.

  • Osei B 8 years ago

    So this is how religious people debate? Insulting people who are not even involved in this conversation? No wonder many people are quitting the various religions.

  • Abdul Razak 8 years ago

    My brother ask for forgiveness and repent.

  • Abu Rasta 8 years ago

    kofi if in u.s.a where u are everything is legalize so u think talk about the deard. while staying in grave

  • Nana 8 years ago

    every year people die and every year our people still go there to die more and more - so people go there to die for lack of wisdom.If this were to happen in Africa the world will insult us that we are not intelligent.And oth ...
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  • Neutral Zone 8 years ago

    Don't think Kwame USA is saying not to believe in God. I see his point of following a religion that is authentic to Africa. Now that's subject to debate but at least he has a point.

  • Kwadwo apedwa 8 years ago

    Living in the USA doesn't make one that smart I am beginning to see. I am trying to draw a correlation between religion and development like you want to opine. Even though suffice to say that a lot of countries developed at ...
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  • micky 8 years ago

    Kwame usa u r a big fool

  • Aj 8 years ago

    Dude,plz talk about the issue not jumping all over.Christianity is for black people it's the only book that's talks about you and me,because we fail as people to follow Most High God but turn to worship all these idols who co ...
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  • peace 8 years ago

    foolish Kwame USA

  • Kotoka 8 years ago

    May they rest in peace Amen

  • Amina Yakubu 8 years ago

    May they rest in internal peace.
    The racist Saudis are blaming the stampede on us Africans instead of their incompetence.

    We are always the escaped goats!

  • original 8 years ago

    may their souls rest in peace

  • Amina Yakubu 8 years ago

    Ameen

  • Jahra 8 years ago

    Ameen

  • FREEDOM FROM THE TRUTH 8 years ago

    AS USUAL GHANAWEB RUSHED TO MISREPORT THIS INCIDENT LAST WITH A PICTURE OF BAWUMIA-NPP VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE THAT THERE WERE NO GHANAIAN FATALITIES WITH THE STAMPEDE. DO WE NOW HAVE TO BELIEVE THAT YOU ARE COVERING YOU ...
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  • KWAME JANTUAH,ACCRA. 8 years ago

    GHANAWEB WITH THEIR UNPROFESSIONAL JOURNALISM AS USUAL.WHAT THEY RELAYED WAS COMMON KNOWLEDGE.WHAT THE PUBLIC NEEDED TO KNOW,AT THIS POINT,ARE THE NAMES AND ADDRESSES/CONTACT PHONE # OF RELATIVES OF THE DEAD,IF ACCESSIBLE.
    W ...
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  • koohia 8 years ago

    why should they publish such information? dont you think the Hajj board has contacted their families directly. Hiding behind internet talking like you know everything yet you know nothing.

  • Kontonkyi 8 years ago

    Why do people have to die doing pilgrimage to Mecca?

  • Kontonkyi 8 years ago

    Why do people have to die doing pilgrimage to Mecca?

  • Kwadwo apedwa 8 years ago

    People die everyday irrespective of time and place. If they died at Mecca. It was their time. Do you remember where PV OBENG DIED?

  • JDM 8 years ago

    Did Bawumia's voters register help identify the five Ghanaians.Bawumia is checking to see if their names are on the Togolese register.

  • MASUD,UK 8 years ago

    MAY ALLAH (SWT)ACCEPT THEIR HAJJ,FORGIVE THEM THEIR SINS AND GRANT THEM JANNAT FIRDAWS.AMEEN.

  • Mohammed Ibrahim 8 years ago

    The Saudi Authority are not well organised.They don,t learn from past mistakes,and failures.They have no respect for humane lives.
    They should improve their safety record.A record number of People have lost their lives in Sa ...
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  • MAAMAH TULA 8 years ago

    MAY THEIR SOULS REST IN PERFECT PEACE IN ALLA´S ARMS.SAUDI AUTHOLITY HAS DONE NOTHING.YOU KNOW HOW YOU PEOPLE DO THINGS.ALLAH IS ANNOYED FOR WHAT YOU PEOPLE DO THERE.SOME OF YOU HAVE TURNED THAT PLACE TO BE A PROSTITUTE EMPI ...
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  • Kofi 8 years ago

    That is the whole point! They do not give a shit about you.That has been their aim since AD 639 when Amr Ibn Al As started the senseless slaughtering of the natives in Egypt to spread their culture.Now, they claim Egypt as th ...
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  • Mr. Bee 8 years ago

    The boss of the Ghana Embassy in Saudi said no Ghanaian died in the stampede in Mina.

    This man here has contradicted what the Ghana ambassador said, blaming the deaths on malaria and convulsion.

    Malaria in Mecca or Mina ...
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  • Achiaa 8 years ago

    The same way they lied about the Ghanaians who died in the xenophobic attacks against foreigners in South Africa a few months ago.

  • Myfty 8 years ago

    May souls rest in peace
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  • Sir Abdul Romeo 8 years ago

    its because of the manner in which muslims are destroying the planet thats y Allah is helping them to destroy themselves is it a must that the whole planet should be an islamic planet? they should not complaint bcuz the killi ...
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  • paa 8 years ago

    Hope this one is mahama who have caused it. Npp

  • paa 8 years ago

    Ask him broth

  • stigma 8 years ago

    Whom are you deceiving,how can malaria kill more than two people at the same time if not the stampede.liar God will ask you for this lies.you call Mecca holy place and you are there not even in Ghana and telling this big lies

  • Asomah Zakari 8 years ago

    May their souls rest in perfect peace.

  • Chiefi amankwa 8 years ago

    This is another ....

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  • kwabena ohemeng,london 8 years ago

    Their families should sue the Saudi Authoriies for finacial compensation.It was due to the incompetence of the Saudi Authorities that more than a thousand pilgrims were crushed to death.The idea that they died because of the ...
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  • TATA 8 years ago

    Will black African Muslim sue these barbaric Saudis? Black Africans see these Saudis as gods.

  • joe 8 years ago

    My brother Saudis are incompetent in so many ways.Foreigners do almost everything for them.

  • Kwadwo apedwa 8 years ago

    You are lying. Black Muslims don't go to hajj because of Saudis. They go for an entirely different reason.

  • TATA 8 years ago

    Two years ago, some Ghanaian Muslims were arrested in Saudi Arabia for carrying drugs (Cocaine) to sell. I am sure that is the reason why you black Africans go to Mecca.

  • LIKPAKPALN NIMBIL 8 years ago

    What kind of malaria can kill like that?

  • DAGARA PRIDE 8 years ago

    I wish like hell not to blame the officials in Mecca. They should take the blame for the death of the five Ghanaians and the rest.
    1.Why did they allow a massive number of people to do the running at the same time. They cou ...
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  • Kwame USA 8 years ago

    Africans will never learn. The Arabs don't care about you and see you as filth.

    They calls blacks "abeed"

  • Musa Ibrahim 8 years ago

    THERE ARE SOME GHANAIANS WHO LACKS SIMPLE UNDERSTANDING AND COMMON SENSE LIKE THIS GUY CALLING HIMSELF 'SIR'.GHANAIANS PILGRIMS ARE DEAD ALTHOUGH WENT TO MECCA TO WORSHIP GOD AS HAS BEEN PRESCRIBED BY PROPHET ABRAHAM.THEY DI ...
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  • Koo Nimo 8 years ago

    Do you have any proof that Islam is Fake? If yes then let us know. If not, then fear the fire, which is prepared for lies.

  • Koo Nimo 8 years ago

    2:118
    And those who have no knowledge say: Why doth not Allah speak unto us, or some sign come unto us? Even thus, as they now speak, spake those (who were) before them. Their hearts are all alike. We have made clear the re ...
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  • Abdul Razak 8 years ago

    May Allah forgive them and get them janat tul firdaus.

  • mobydick 8 years ago

    Died of malaria and convulsion indeed! Why then were they reported missing?

  • shark 8 years ago

    may their soul rest in peace

  • Chicago Guy 8 years ago

    God punish them they are NDC please Mahama use ghana money to by thm ticket

  • OPULU 8 years ago

    EACH YEAR PEOPLE GO THEIR AND DIED WHY BECAUSE THEIR BELIEVED IS WAYWARD,1 HOW CAN YOU STONE SATAN SATAN IS A SPIRIT 2 MUSILMS THINK WHEN YOU DIED THEIR YOU ARE GOING TO PARADES WHICH IS NEVER TRUE ALL MUSLIMS ARE GOING TO H ...
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  • Mohammed mudassr 8 years ago

    opulu my foolish brother hell prepared 4u after the world end.Aways study someone religious background before commenting on it.

  • Zakuus 8 years ago

    Ignorance is a BIG disease.... May Almighty Allah forgive you....please repent now before death knock on your door!

    May departed souls rest in perfect peace and May Almighty Allah grant them Jannatul Firdaus

  • Yaw Ghana.... 8 years ago

    I am sure the npp vultures and I nation wreckers are waiting to blame Mahama. Sad

  • Habeeb Rahman 8 years ago

    kwame USA
    u r very very stupid. foolish ppl like u must be neglected from the system. Islam is from Allah and not Arabs. u stupid fool. no wonder u added USA to our name.

  • OPULU 8 years ago

    ABRAHAM IS NOT A PROPHET AND MUHAMMED IS ALSO A PROHET AS MUSLIMS PROCLAMED AS LAST PROPHET,THE LAST PROPHET IS JOHN THE ONE WHO WROTE THE REVELATION.

  • One God 8 years ago

    liar................And when We made the House (at Makka) a resort for mankind and sanctuary, (saying): Take as your place of worship the place where Abraham stood (to pray). And We imposed a duty upon Abraham and Ishmael, (s ...
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  • Kwadwo apedwa 8 years ago

    Thank you man. These guys ( Christians) are so lost. Lol. The joke is on them. Ask them why their God will have the arc of the convent made for him. And they worship a man that used to eat and shit too.

  • Open ur eyes and lean 8 years ago

    Kwame USA u r right and these ppl always say we africans celebrate anything...

  • Koo Nimo 8 years ago

    These is the forum of haters. People died and you cant pray for them. why won't you shut up.

  • obama from suhum 8 years ago

    sorry to all victims and their families

  • obama all the way from suhum 8 years ago

    may their soul rest in peace

  • firdaus 8 years ago

    can they come out with the names. .some of us cant find our relatives

  • Mohammed mudassr 8 years ago

    may their souls rest in pease

  • Birmingham 8 years ago

    Wise saying.

  • Sam George. 8 years ago

    The so called spokesperson is being economical with the truth. I am sure they died as a result of the stampede, not malaria. Please be truthful because God is watching.

  • Kofi 8 years ago

    I hope that they will take notes and make changes to their beliefs God is watching

  • Kofi 8 years ago

    They were too dirty to face GOD

  • kobolo 8 years ago

    May Allah kill them. Why should we believe in fairytale. You wasting your time with ceremony called religion. Life is now. Religion just misleading. Christianity says pray and your sins be forgiven. So be corrupt and clean yo ...
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  • ken 8 years ago

    Why does the government have to lie over these tragic deaths? What is wrong if died from the collapse? What does this government take us for?

  • KAREN -UK 8 years ago

    the Holy Quran says that,''if any1 kills a person,its as though he has kill the whole of humanity and if any1 saves a single life,its as though he has save the whole of humanity''Islam means PEACE.4get about what individuals ...
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  • Jame spain 29,2015 00:50 8 years ago

    We Ghanaians must be wise but every time every day brabra will not solve our problems.A wise person always uses his or her comon sense but not shouting.

  • FREEDOM IN TRUTH 8 years ago

    They did not have to report but they did without checking their source and facts. As a result they hauled the ignorant fool Bawumia on the front page headlines that there was no fatality among Ghanaians. Now they've m ...
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  • FREEDOM IN TRUTH 8 years ago

    Bawumia is a stooge of the Akyem boys. He more than a jack ass

  • Raymond Abbiw 8 years ago

    These are the clear indications that the Muslim religion was established by Satan who wants to be worshiped like God almighty.
    The Quran was written by devil's. There's only one holy book and that book is the bible the very ...
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  • Kwadwo apedwa 8 years ago

    You are very ignorant there man. Will satan teach Muslims to pray against him? When Muslims say " I seek protection from Satan, the accursed " does that sound to you like it is Satan speaking.

    You claim the bible is t ...
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  • atsu 8 years ago

    This time it's back to sender!

  • atsu 8 years ago

    People ,we can create our own devil (statue)for the muslims in Ghana to avoid future deaths.no more hajj..ghana has hard stones.think am.

  • Kwadwo apedwa 8 years ago

    There is no statue of Satan. You have no inkling what Islam teaches. Thanks to the net you can hide behind the screen and spew bs and go laugh with your Muslim friends at work later. Hypocrites. Stoning of the devil is symbol ...
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  • inercycl 8 years ago

    So we are so petrified to admit to the fact that these compatriots died as a result of the stampede. Is it not an admission of guilt already.Now we are alluding their deaths to fever, whatever.Just come clean as religious ...
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  • Nana 8 years ago

    That is why I comment on Africans to create their own holy praying ground between Niger,Nigeria n Chad because there is nothing holy above Mecca

  • Adomakoh Froboo 8 years ago

    But why did we send so many people to Mecca, considering that S Africa n other rich countries sent far less?

  • Osei kuffour 8 years ago

    It's true my brother , but you see the light because you are in the states .
    The people can only think like you if they had seen the light .. Sad sad sad Africa

  • wise man 8 years ago

    We don't even want them back all should die there

  • KAREN -UK 8 years ago

    YOU SHOULD BE VERY PROUD OF YOURSELF FOR WISHING DEATH ON PEOPLE,YOU ARE INDEED A WISE MAN WHEN REASONABLE DECENT PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT REAL ISSUES,LOOK AT YOUR POST,WHAT A SHAME.GOD HAVE MERCY ON YOU MANN

  • #PRAY4GHANA 8 years ago

    why were they reported missing sme days ago, if indeed they were sick.? were there no medical team with them? these are sme of the question that need to be answered.

  • Zakuus 8 years ago

    May departed souls rest in perfect peace and May Almighty Allah grant them Jannatul Firda

  • MAWUKO 8 years ago

    Kwame, you are really a man of vision & religiously, you are an intellectual- Amina Yakubu has been swayed by their teachings.

  • M Y 8 years ago

    muslims and christians should desist from reading and COMMENTING on posts by such people as " kwame usa" who are not real human beings but cowordly kin pins of satan. They have smoked si much cocain, dope etc they will only r ...
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  • kotoo 8 years ago

    My point is,if really there is heaven waiting for us,no ghanaian would get chance to be there,especially,the obinims,the ebenezers,the kumkyakyas and all the stupid ghanaian prophets.

  • STEPHEN OSEI,NORWAY 8 years ago

    RIP

  • Zulka Rash 8 years ago

    Alhamdulillah may Allah grant them
    jannat firdaus.they are destined to
    die there

  • the truth 8 years ago

    pls we should all bear in mind that, the Allah that we are claiming to be almighty God is never true. Allah is a moon God. i will challenge all those are claiming, to do their research well and find the truth. Am the way and ...
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  • Ibrahim D.A Majeed 8 years ago

    In fact is always disgusting when we hear such fool comments, Allah punish you,have your Religion and i also have my Religion.Islam is a Religion of peace.May their souls RIP.

  • Ibrahim D.A Majeed 8 years ago

    In fact is always disgusting when we hear such fool comments, Allah punish you,have your Religion and i also have my Religion.Islam is a Religion of peace.May their souls RIP.from wa

  • Ibrahim D.A Majeed 8 years ago

    In fact is always disgusting when we hear such fool comments, Allah punish you,have your Religion and i also have my Religion.Islam is a Religion of peace.May their souls RIP.from wa

  • the truth 8 years ago

    pls is never fool comment but the truth.

  • Islam is the best 8 years ago

    May dey are souls rest in perfect peace ameen. Prophet muhamed(p,b,o,h) is the best creation amon all makind

  • Erzuah 8 years ago

    Muslimeee fuo wat de happened to u.
    Sorry may dia souls rest in pieces

  • proud Muslim 8 years ago

    if Islam is fake...then Christianity is fake too...if Muslims worship moon God then I think Christian's worship picture have u ever see Jesus before no..but u always have his picture on ur walls in ur rooms and churches worsh ...
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