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| Mecca's Grand Mosque plagued by swarm of locusts |
| 2019-01-11 |
| Boils and Frogs get ready [Times of Israel] A massive swarm of locusts plagued Mecca, Saudi Arabia, earlier this week, prompting authorities at Islam’s holiest site to launch a cleaning operation to remove them. Videos posted to social media showed the insects swarming around cleaners and worshipers in the city’s Grand Mosque, where millions of Muslim pilgrims congregate every year. A massive swarm of locusts plagued Mecca, Saudi Arabia, earlier this week, prompting authorities at Islam's holiest site to launch a cleaning operation to remove them. Videos posted to social media showed the insects swarming around cleaners and worshipers in the city's Grand Mosque, where millions of Muslim pilgrims congregate every year. "Specialized teams have been directed to work in the fight to eliminate these insects," authorities in Mecca said, according to the Al-Araby Al-Jadeed news site. "they've been specially trained to differentiate between the hajj visitors and the insects" |
| Posted by:Frank G |
| #13 The only insect that is kosher is the locust that swarms regularly through the Middle East... and pretends just to be a normal grasshopper when it isn’t swarming time. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2019-01-11 22:37 |
| #12 BBQ Locusts? |
| Posted by: 3dc 2019-01-11 17:22 |
| #11 It is Allah's will -- hmm, what is Allah trying to say? |
| Posted by: Betty Ghibelline4272 2019-01-11 13:29 |
| #10 Fitting. But I never heard of locusts swarming around open pit pig manure. |
| Posted by: Woodrow 2019-01-11 13:11 |
| #9 Nukes are messy...maybe some "Rods from God" kinetic strikes would be less of a clean-up in prep for the new ME Disney 1001 Arabian Nights theme park |
| Posted by: Warthog 2019-01-11 12:39 |
| #8 Nuke it from orbit, only way to be sure. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2019-01-11 11:20 |
| #7 Huge swarm of locusts,.... and then there are the insects. |
| Posted by: USN, Ret. 2019-01-11 10:48 |
| #6 Now if the purification pools turn into blood I'll be impressed. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2019-01-11 08:59 |
| #5 Pigs eat locusts,don't they? |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2019-01-11 08:34 |
| #4 "God Smites Mecca" |
| Posted by: Ebbavirt Clunk4147 2019-01-11 08:07 |
| #3 Just saying.. Locust are high protein. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2019-01-11 07:50 |
| #2 A rain of fire works too, like hit Sodom and Gomorrah. |
| Posted by: Silentbrick 2019-01-11 07:47 |
| #1 We need a Moses to hammer the points home. |
| Posted by: Ptah 2019-01-11 07:20 |