The biggest and most important holiday in the islamic religion, the festival of sacrifice, is currently being celebrated by Muslim's everywhere. This year, around 3 million people from all over the world have gone to Mecca, the holy city of Saudi Arabia, to take part in the annual hajj Pilgrimage. The hajj is a huge ceremony in which muslims symbolically express their rejection of temptation by throwing pebbles at three walls that represent Satan. The beginning of this stoning ceremony also marks the start of the "Feast of Sacrifice," a muslim holiday known as Eid al- adha during which they commemorate the near murder of Abraham's son by slaughtering a number of sheep and cattle. In the past, this bustling time of year has led to deadly crushes and pileups, but the bigger problem this year is the immense amount of traffic.
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Cholera, an easily treatable desease that, when not treated, can kill by causing severe dehydration, is currently raging through Haiti. So far around 17,000 Haitians have been diagnosed with the disease, and over 1,000 have died. Many citezens feel the need to get even with whoever brought the disease to Haiti, which they are blaming on the U.N security and stabilization mission, or Minustah, for short. Riots and protests habe broken out complete with burning tires and gunfire exchanged between Haitians and the U.N soldiers. Though some Haitians are acting violently toward a group of people they dont know for sure brought the disease to Haiti, it's hard to blame them for their anger, considering the devestation of the earthquake earlier this year and the fact that Cholera cases are rising extremely rapidy everyday.
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