SAUDI ARABIA: Rains lash pilgrims, as pilgrims stone the devil

Violent storms Wednesday wreaked havoc on the annual hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia but didn't cause any notable injuries or halt the processions.

Around 2.8 million people took part in the pilgrimage this year, a religious requirement for any able-bodied Muslim. It is the largest annual gathering of people anywhere in the world. 

-- Los Angeles Times

Photo: Muslim pilgrims cast stones at a pillar, symbolizing the stoning of Satan, in a ritual called "Jamarat," the last rite of the annual Hajj, in Mina near the Saudi holy city of Mecca, on Thursday, Nov. 18, 2010. Credit: Hassan Ammar / Associated Press

Comments

[Verballistic]

Wow...I say it's better for them to take out their aggressions by stoning the DEVIL instead of some poor Muslim WOMAN who was caught in adultery (of course the MAN never faces death for such a one-sided "crime").

By the way, were any of the pilgrims killed this year in a STAMPEDE like the kind that usually happens every other year or so?

[sam]

@ sophie. greetings,
have you not tried clicking the blue links(storms wednesday wreaked havoc) it gives a larger story line. thank you.

[Sophie]

And so you give coverage to the rain that fell but not on the single greatest annual gathering of human beings? Nice.