Crane crash at Grand Mosque of Makkah

[Thumpalumpacus]

I've heard but have never been convinced it's true, in Saudi Arabia, if someone is injured in an accident, there is no rescue attempt for (pick one) 1/2 hour, 45 minutes, 1 hour, because they are required to wait to ascertain Allah's will in regards to who is going to survive or not.

I'm thinking the high fatality count in a construction zone such as this is indicative of something hinky, but is it possible I am just being hyper critical of the damned Saudi's again ?

I also note it was an 'in house' outfit doing the work (Bin Laden family) so if they are a bunch of fuck ups, who's fault is that ??

When I was stationed in Riyadh as a USAF firefighter, we had to commute ten miles to work, and we were told to not render aid at any accident we witnessed for thirty minutes so that "inshallah" could do its magic.

[Minimalist]

Is that in the koran or is it just more wahhabist bullshit?

[Anomalocaris]

What a pathetic weak little deity this Allah,  Can't even kill some mere mortal dead if some other nosy mortal deign to interfere.

[Mudhammam]

Wow, it's nice to see people showing their real selves.

We pour mockery on them under the pretension that we're really concerned with the spread of ideas and a wish to deconvert and/or deradicalize. But really religious people's lives are less valuable so a hundred or more dead makes excellent comedic fodder in between efforts to strengthen the number and perception of atheists lacking any decency or good sense.

[jesus_wept]

Shake it didn't happen in a few weeks when the place will be packed, to send even more of the lunatics to paradise.

[Longhorn]

Shake it didn't happen in a few weeks when the place will be packed, to send even more of the lunatics to paradise.

Well, that was....extremely distasteful.

If there is any silver lining to this story, is that it didn't happen during the pilgrimage. It's horrible. I hope more attention will be paid to safety by then

[jesus_wept]

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[Alex K]

Shake it didn't happen in a few weeks when the place will be packed, to send even more of the lunatics to paradise.

Bleagh.

[jesus_wept]

If you think that was bad taste then you'll love this.

At least the amount of non Muslims killed will be minimised due to the fact that the Quran bans us from the grand mosque for being "unclean", and they will probably crush even more of each other to death, trying to kiss a big, black, stone vagina as they circle the Kaaba five times in a state of religious fanaticism, during the hajj.

[Exian]

Pretty short sighted, jw. Too bad they didn't have inside information like you did when asked where you wanted to be born. Maybe they could have avoided indoctrination and your scorn.