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NY Times Article: Pandemic Faith
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chicken little
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Re: NY Times Article: Pandemic Faith
The annual pilgrimage to Mecca frequently causes many deaths;panics,stampedes,structures collapsing,illness etc. and,from memory,these fatalities have been "caused by the will of Allah" and/or laterly,by George Bush. We accept this annual toll and move along.But this time I think the International Community has a much bigger stake in this and the time has come for a bit of a rethink on the acceptability of this Haj occurring this year at all.Do you reckon a few Mullahs should proclaim that Allah has flagged it away for the moment...revisit the concept in future et al ? Not being of the Islamic faith;or any, come to that,I don't want these folk making my life-expectations a lot narrower because of their faith.
The annual pilgrimage to Mecca frequently causes many deaths;panics,stampedes,structures collapsing,illness etc. and,from memory,these fatalities have been "caused by the will of Allah" and/or laterly,by George Bush. We accept this annual toll and move along.But this time I think the International Community has a much bigger stake in this and the time has come for a bit of a rethink on the acceptability of this Haj occurring this year at all.Do you reckon a few Mullahs should proclaim that Allah has flagged it away for the moment...revisit the concept in future et al ? Not being of the Islamic faith;or any, come to that,I don't want these folk making my life-expectations a lot narrower because of their faith.
Mellie
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Re: NY Times Article: Pandemic Faith
Haj won't happen again until next Jan or Feb, unless I'm mis-remembering. Seems we were watching that during the outbreak in Turkey in Jan and the Russians had their Haj -goers skip over Turkey...
We considered it a large risk at the time, along with the Chinese New Year with millions of Chinese traveling...
I couldn't read the article, but if it hasn't hit by next Jan it could be a risk.
Haj won't happen again until next Jan or Feb, unless I'm mis-remembering. Seems we were watching that during the outbreak in Turkey in Jan and the Russians had their Haj -goers skip over Turkey...
We considered it a large risk at the time, along with the Chinese New Year with millions of Chinese traveling...
I couldn't read the article, but if it hasn't hit by next Jan it could be a risk.
Theresa42
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Re: NY Times Article: Pandemic Faith
Link to the original article in Seed Magazine:
http://www.seedmagazine.com/news/2006/04/when_on_hajj_wear_a_facemask.php
Link to the original article in Seed Magazine:
http://www.seedmagazine.com/news/2006/04/when_on_hajj_wear_a_facemask.php