The jamarat stoning on that faithful day progressed peacefully as hoped but problems started along the way close to the jamarat bridge
2- Entrance routes leading to the jamarat ground was packed with pilgrims heading for the actual rites.
3- Along the way, we observed that pilgrims of Arab descent were returning back through one of the entrance routes against laid out rules.
4- While there were Saudi officials like the police and operatives of the diplomatic forces, they turned a blind eye to it.
5- The Arabs have their temporary tents in #Mina located along d entrance routes, so they were using these as short cuts to return back.
6- Some of us non Arab pilgrims as they tend to call us blacks who noticed this, called the attention of d police 2 it but they ignored us.
7- From a single parallel line of Arab pilgrims, it grew to 2 and then 3 and before you know it, the route was jammed with pilgrims.
8- Now when the build up of pilgrims close to the jamarat bridge area grew beyond control, the area became a jungle.
9- With a confined space, sweat and humid air, most pilgrims started falling particularly the old, the weak and women.
10- The situation became a survival of the fittest or better still…survival by the grace of God.
11- You may ask how I knew all this…i’m a pilgrim, right now in Mina camp who lost a friend and grieving.
12- Could the stampede have been avoided or managed? I will emphatically say yes
13- While crediting the Saudis for hosting gigantic project yearly, the stampede today smacks of total incompetence.
14- There were CCTVs stationed along strategic points along d routes and these can give real time feed back 2 whoever was monitoring..
15- Of the impeding disaster and ordering for the opening of alternative routes which were shut n manned sternly by d police.
16- Apart from two ambulance vans located at d entrance route from#Munzalifah, non was sighted along the routes again.
17- Now when d stampede started, exits into tents around d area, were padlocked, locking out any means out but over the heads of humans.
18- Anyone blaming African pilgrims is a liar. Ask how the parallel lines of Arab pilgrims got to where they died? How?
19- We can be killing ourselves to please these folks but undergoing this hajj pilgrimage, I can tell these Arab people have no chill…
20- Us black folks. It is sad but it is the truth. Even the poorest of them, the Yemenis, treat and attend to you with disgust.
Unfortunate.
May God have mercy
if dt should b d case evry body should stay in their country to perform hajji
correct talk
Since the arabs dnt like black I advise every Muslim answer ur papa name no more going there for any reason bside God is everywhere
The saudi’s got should be sue for their negligence
suadi send 4 them
Almighty God Knows The Best,,,,,for your information Hajj can’t be perform else where except Saudi Arabia….Let’s Leave Evrything in d Hands Of God, Did it happen last year or two years ago, So no leave will fall from a tree without d concern of God,,,,,,,,