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| Yoepus |
800 killed in Baghdad bridge stampede 17 minutes ago
BAGHDAD (AFP) - At least 816 people were crushed to death or drowned in a stampede on a Baghdad bridge triggered by fears a suicide bomber was among vast crowds of Shiite pilgrims massed for a religious ceremony.
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Most were trampled to death or fell from Al-Aaimmah bridge into the Tigris river as panic gripped thousands of pilgrims from an estimated one million attempting to make their way to the Kadhimiya mosque in the north of the city.
yahoo/afp:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/iraq;_y...HNlYwMlJVRPUCUl
There you have it, proof that religion does kill people:( |
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| George Smiley |
| Ever heard the story of Noah's Ark? Now THATS proof! |
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| St_Andrew |
| Yeah it's aweful. Religion clearly should be abandoned by everyone :D |
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| Chris Larkin |
To be fair, it wasn't the religion that did the killing, it fas the fear factor that any massed gathering in Iraq is going to cause. It probably wasn't Idea Of The Year 2005 to have this festival go ahead, but it's not as if you can blame these people for wanting to continue tradition.
Mind you, the 'insurgency' must be having a right laugh - they launched three mortars at the crowd, which got them edgy, but didn't do much, and before you know it, you've got potentially a 1000 dead, without loss of terrorist lives. Oh well... |
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| Massive84 |
Isreal kills also, i guess we should ban that also.
Funny thing, this never happend before, i heard this is yearly event and this is the first time that it happens.
Guess we can blame America for this. You see there were no saddamists or zarkawsits before. whatever the words should mean :rolleyes: |
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| ::TranceVanDyk:: |
napolean, hitler, stalin, saddam, kim ill sung, milosevic, hedeki tojo.
all these secular rulers. they have killed more people than any other religion. note, the supreme court regards atheism as a religion. religion is just another word for, "lifestyle". if you get the logic, we all have a religion. mind you, it doesnt have to be anything organized or involve diety worship. just your lifestyle. |
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| trancaholic |
| Take any ruler from before 1800 and you'll find that he/she was a religious person. Then look at all the cases of genocide back in the days, and you'll see that religious mass murderers still outnumber the secular ones. |
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| DrUg_Tit0 |
| quote: | Originally posted by ::TranceVanDyk::
napoleon, hitler, stalin, saddam, kim ill sung, milosevic, hedeki tojo. |
Yes, well, don't get me started with the list of religious rulers who started wars.
| quote: | | all these secular rulers. they have killed more people than any other religion. note, the supreme court regards atheism as a religion. religion is just another word for, "lifestyle". if you get the logic, we all have a religion. mind you, it doesnt have to be anything organized or involve diety worship. just your lifestyle. |
No, religion is not a synonyme for lifestyle, it does by definition have to involve a deity. |
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