Friday, January 13, 2006
Even If 'A Religion Of Peace;' It's a Religion Of Bad Values
Yet again there are hundreds dead at the Hajj. If you haven't followed this over the years, it's becoeming an old story.
Say what you want, but time-after-time, Islam proves itself to be a religion in need of reform.
The site is a notorious bottleneck for the massive crowds that attend the annual hajj pilgrimage and has seen deadly stampedes in the past, including one in 1990 that killed 1,426 people and another in February 2004 that killed 244. Seven of the past 17 yearly pilgrimages have seen deadly incidents at al-Jamarat.It dawned on me as I read this account that for this to happen again and again, year after year, it has to be more important to each individual pilgrim to complete their pilgrimage than to preserve the life, health and safety of their fellow pilgrims. Otherwise, they would stop immediately when encountering someone who has tripped in front of them and those behind would stop when those in front stopped. Simple etiquitte.
Say what you want, but time-after-time, Islam proves itself to be a religion in need of reform.
