HAJJ board blames Saudi government for stranded prospective pilgrims

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• KOOLIE 10 years ago

  Black African Muslims are wasting their time following the religion of 'donkey urine drunkard' unholy prophet Mohammed. A man who married to Aisha when this girl was just six years. Unholly prophet Mohammed slept with Aisha w ...
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  Black African Muslims are wasting their time following the religion of 'donkey urine drunkard' unholy prophet Mohammed. A man who married to Aisha when this girl was just six years. Unholly prophet Mohammed slept with Aisha when this girl was just nine years old and Mohammed was fifty two years old.
  
  How holy is this pedophile called prophet Mohammed. Black African Muslims are wasting their time with a dead religion. There is no life in this barbaric Arabic occultic religion that will just send you to hell to suffer.

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• alidu salami 10 years ago

  May the Almighty Allah forgive you and guide you through the right path. you are the people who always creates problems for the this nations i hope and pray for you , that one day you will lead to see divine revelation. Ma ...
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  May the Almighty Allah forgive you and guide you through the right path. you are the people who always creates problems for the this nations i hope and pray for you , that one day you will lead to see divine revelation. May almighty Allah forgive you because you are weak and you no nothing about this world. stupid fool hell will be your portion . and you will remain in the blazing fire then you will remember this .

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• ABBAS 10 years ago

  "The heartless and murderous Saudis locked up the injured with the dead in containers — instead of providing medical treatment and helping them or at least quenching their thirst. They murdered them," Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ...
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  "The heartless and murderous Saudis locked up the injured with the dead in containers — instead of providing medical treatment and helping them or at least quenching their thirst. They murdered them," Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in a statement on his website marking the anniversary of the disaster. He offered no evidence to support the allegations.
  
  Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince and Interior Minister Mohammed bin Nayef said Iran was attempting to "politicize" the hajj. In comments published later Monday by the Saudi Press Agency, he said Iran had decided not to send its citizens to the pilgrimage this year for domestic purposes. Iran accuses Saudi Arabia of sabotaging negotiations that took place earlier this year regarding the security of pilgrims.
  
  The September 2015 stampede and crush of pilgrims killed at least 2,426 people, according to an Associated Press count. Tehran has said 464 of the dead were Iranian and blamed the catastrophe on Saudi mismanagement of the annual pilgrimage. Khamenei has also blamed Saudi Arabia for an earlier crane collapse in Mecca that killed 111 people, and said the kingdom's rulers had "reduced the hajj to a religious-tourist trip" while accusing Iran of "politicizing" the pilgrimage.
  
  A top Saudi official said Khamenei's accusations reflect "a new low".
  
  "These accusations are not only unfounded, but also timed to only serve their unethical, failing propaganda," said Abdulmohsen Alyas, the Saudi undersecretary for international communications and media at the Ministry of Culture and Information.
  
  "Saudi Arabia stands ready to serve the pilgrims and ensure their safety and comfort," Alyas told The Associated Press.
  
  Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Ghasemi said the ministry has formed a committee to investigate the issue and pursue it in international forums, without elaborating.
  
  The hajj stampede caused a new flare-up in tensions between Iran and Saudi Arabia, regional rivals that back opposite sides in the civil wars in Syria and Yemen. The two countries severed diplomatic relations in January after Saudi Arabia executed a prominent Shiite cleric and angry Iranian crowds overran Saudi diplomatic missions.
  
  Saudi authorities have not released the findings of their investigation into the hajj disaster. Preliminary statements suggested the crush was caused when at least two large crowds intersected.
  
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  Associated Press writer Aya Batrawy in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, contributed to this report.

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• JOE LOKO 10 years ago

  If Saudi Arabia intentionally murdered the pilgrims, why should you go there every year? Every year thousands of Muslims pilgrims die in stampede in throwing stones at Satan.
  
  My point is, why do you go there at all. It is ...
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  If Saudi Arabia intentionally murdered the pilgrims, why should you go there every year? Every year thousands of Muslims pilgrims die in stampede in throwing stones at Satan.
  
  My point is, why do you go there at all. It is a useless trip. This year too, thousands are going to die by throwing stones at satan. Muslims are funy people.

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• Nana Forbi 10 years ago

  they must to follow the laws

  they must to follow the laws

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