More Pilgrim Deaths In Saudi Arabia: A Pattern Of Neglect
KABUL: (Middle East Press) At least 717 worshipers were trampled to death in Mina, Saudi Arabia, just outside of Mecca, on Thursday, September 24, 2015 in what has become a continuing pattern of disasters plaguing Muslim pilgrims visiting holy sites in the totalitarian Kingdom. In July of 1990, the death toll was 1,426 worshipers who were moving between holy sites through a tunnel where the ventilation systems failed causing panic and suffocation. In 1994, pilgrims totaling 270 were trampled to death during Hajj season. In 2004, on the final day of Hajj, 244 people were trampled to death and 364 more died in the same manner in 2006. Floods, fires, and accidents have also caused many lives to be lost during holy seasons over the years. Earlier this year 111 were killed when a crane fell into a mosque in Mecca.
The authoritarian government of the Saudi Royal Family is lackadaisical at the very least when it comes to the management of the large crowds that gather each year in the Muslim holy cities within their realm. The royals even have the audacity to blame the pilgrims themselves for their plight when according to ‘crowd’ psychologist John Drury, of the University of Sussex, “In general, the reason why there are crowd crushes are because there are problems with management. People can’t see how dense a crowd is when they are in one, they have what we call poor ‘back to front communication’. So when it goes wrong you cannot blame the crowd because they are not in a position to be blamed.” Several survivors of the events on Thursday have in turn accused the government of mismanagement.
The Saudi government has recently been busy bombing targets in the neighboring country of Yemen. The House of Saud view Yemen as a threat to their hegemony on the Arabian Peninsula. Yemen has long been a battleground between Western and Eastern alliances and an impediment to the total control the Saudi Royal Family has over virtually the entire Peninsula by direct authority or by strong alliances with other like-minded regimes. The peripheral kingdoms of Qatar, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, and Kuwait are all aligned with Saudi Arabia and the Western philosophy of a one world government and a one world currency to be imposed slowly by propaganda, chemical delivery systems, and eventually direct coercion.
Most of the Muslims who make pilgrimages to the holy cities of Mecca and Medina tend to come from the more populous Muslim countries in South and Southeast Asia. Many of these people are more interested in their faith than implementing a one world order. To the corrupt House of Saud these pilgrims are expendable and not worth the time, effort, and expense to properly manage the large crowds that often gather at these events. This neglect has led to thousands of deaths in the last few decades.
The so-called Arab Spring that began in 2011 did not affect the regime in Riyadh. The ‘revolutions’ in several Muslim countries that led to a domino effect of regime change included Libya, a country set to lead a group of African nations in issuing a gold backed currency that would have been more tangible than the Western paper currencies issues by the Rothschild international banking system. The result was the murder of Libyan leader Col. Muammar Gaddafi by Western backed ‘rebels.’ Subsequently the Sudan was split into the states of Sudan and South Sudan with their economies taken over by the international bankers.
The so called Arab Spring began 10 years after the Mossad/neocon led events of 9/11 which resulted not only in thousands of deaths in the United States but millions of deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan; two countries that now have their economies and natural resources controlled by Western corporations and international banks.
The Saudi ruling family is in little danger of falling to a true people’s revolution because of their brutal grip on power. However killing people in Yemen with the tacit support of the West will help ensure that any resistance to their dominance of the Peninsula will be contained.
As far as the responsibility of the House of Saud to manage and care for the crowds visiting the Muslim holy sites, if you judge by their track record they take little or no responsibility. Psychopaths are void of empathy and responsibility, and the ruling family in Saudi Arabia is typical of the multinational dynastic families characterized by people self-consumed and innately obsessed with increasing their power over the world and its resources. The 717 people who were trampled to death on Thursday will never understand the causation of their deaths—but we can observe the recurring patterns of neglect and add the motives of the globalists in charge in Riyadh to reveal an equation that is continuously leading to the deaths of people the royals deem expendable.
