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Originally Posted by HotHotHeat
Nothing highlights my lacking understanding of the Middle East more than these disasters.
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The people making the pilgrimage to Mecca are from all over the world. A couple million, all at once, many of whom saved for years for a once-in-a-lifetime show of devotion. The Saudis employ pretty sophisticated measures to control congestion, including remote camera monitoring to manage crowds and ramps and tunnels engineered on a far bigger scale than anything you see on at an NFL stadium. They deploy 100,000 security and emergency personnel on-hand. The problem is it's just a massive sh*t-tonne of people trying to get to a handful of sacred locations at once.
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Originally Posted by nik-
It's not religion, it's overcrowding. They're there for religious purposes, but this crap can happen at poorly planned concerts and sporting events too.
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Yep. Love Parade anyone?