The Vice Guide to Travel - Mecca Diaries
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Hajj is the worlds largest annual pilgrimage that takes place in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. Last year VICE Founder Suroosh Alvi went with his family and shot footage with an old Handicam. His intention was never to make a VBS doc out of it, but lo and behold here it isshaky camerawork and all. November 27, 2009 is the Eid celebration for the Muslim world and also marks the end of this years Hajj.
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choosen faith? no one chooses their faith, it's foisted upon them at birth
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So after Hajj if you commit sin you're fucked?
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@dasdasdus I don't think many tourist want to visit.
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Well the only other they could do which of course would be hell for them to do is tourism.
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@sourmanofcoal The world will abandon them. Then they will have no resource to make money. They sure as hell dont manufacture anything else we would need to rely on them for. Once the world abandons them, then they will have to find a way to continue to fund their infrastruct that was built on Oil. They will just sprial downhill, its inevitable.
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WTF will they all do when OIL runs out?
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@Algonquin81 Why do you want to waste food like that? Better airdrop bacon on Liberia in Africa
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sauidis should just subcontract the whole hajj thing for they suck at doing it.
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Forget drawing cartoons. What would be funny is if some country air dropped strips of bacon over mecca.
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Now this is something I'd like to experience.
ShadowCrashed81 8 months ago 11
Though i'm not religious, a pilgrimage like this i think would be quite a profound experience. I think its great. The happier people are the better. Although the narrator said at 5:07 that the 4 million people during hajj was the largest gathering of people at any given time. But I was quite sure the biggest gathering of humanity was at the Kumbh Mela in one of 4 holy cities in India. 60,000,000 - 90,000,000 people. In any case its all a hell of a lot of people celebrating their chosen faith :)
decafe30au 1 month ago 4