[ April 17, 2024 ]
At least 50 people died and more than 200 were injured in a stampede at a funeral procession for Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani.
“The death toll of this incident is over 50,” Abbas Amian, director general of Kerman’s coroner bureau, told the official IRNA news agency. “Most of them are men, ranging from young to adults.”
Mr. Koulivand said 213 people were injured in the stampede.
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Soleimani funeral stampede shows savagery of U.S. enemies
By Cheryl K. Chumley, The Washington Times, January 7, 2020 (thanks to Christian):
In between all the Democrats’ mourning for the murderous Gen. Qassem Soleimani, in between all the apologies being issued by Hollywood leftists like Michael Moore and Rose McGowan for President Donald Trump’s dare-to-be-pro-America drone takedown of the terror leader, comes this bit of sad news: Thirty two died and 190 were injured — at last count — during funeral services for the killed Quds chief.
Don’t know about funerals in your neck of the woods. But typically, in more civilized sections, stampedes and angry rallying and loud vows to take out Americans and attack U.S. spots are not part and parcel of the whole funeral procession experience.
True, those long vehicle backups on the roads as mourners make their way from funeral hall to grave site can spark some nasty middle-finger waving, among the more uncouth and impatient segments of society, that is. And no doubt, the inner circle members of say, mafia and MS-13 outfits may express some sentiments of revenge when their loved ones turn up dead — but these are more private conversations. They’re not really put out there for public consumption. On the other hand, it’s true, the Westboro Baptists can get pretty vocal, cemetery site and all, with their condemnations of certain segments of society.
But even the Westboro Baptists don’t stampede.
Let’s face it. Even all the protesters at Westboro Baptists’ event emerge alive.
Not so the Soleimani mourners.
These guys, thousands of ‘em, an estimated million of ‘em, rallied, protested, waved flags, vowed revenge, hurled epithets at America, at President Trump, at the West — and generally, promised to kill, kill, kill until Soleimani’s death was avenged. And then they underscored their vows to kill by killing a few of their own — accidentally, in the heat of the moment, of course.
“Unfortunately,” said Pirhossein Koulivand, the head of Iran’s emergency medical services, in a statement reported by The Associated Press that could very well go down in history as the most underemphasized summation of tragedy, well, ever, “as a result of the stampede, some of our compatriots have been injured and some have been killed during the funeral processions.”
Unfortunately?
In the grander scheme of things, in light of the one million-plus who flocked to Tehran to take part the funeral procession, maybe that’s not considered too bad. Maybe 32 dead and 90 injured aren’t numbers, statistically speaking, that rise to the level, for Iran’s leaders, of worrisome.
Maybe Iran doesn’t get upset about funeral procession deaths-due-to-stampeding-attendees until the ratio of living-to-killed of participants reaches 10-to-1.
But this is illuminating. This is interesting. This is a teaching moment.
In 2004, more than 100,000 filed past the coffin of Ronald Reagan in the National Cathedral, to pay their respects to one of America’s most loved presidents. In 2018, thousands and thousands of people lined the streets of Capitol Hill, in the wee hours of the night — and overnight — to pay their respects to George H.W. Bush at the Capitol Rotunda. In 2005, tens and tens of thousands gathered in Saint Peter’s Square for a mass memorial for Pope John Paul II, whose body had been lying in repose in the Vatican’s Apostolic Palace. An estimated four million ultimately gathered for the pope’s funeral proceedings in Vatican City. In 2002, over one million mourners in London assembled to pay their respects at the funeral of Queen Elizabeth.
And here’s the interesting part: Those massive mournings weren’t marked by deaths and injuries.
All in all, they were pretty peaceful affairs, where grieving with tears seemed the order of the day — not stampeding like herds of angry bulls. Or zealots. Or radical Muslim terror-minded fanatics simply using the death of their lead Muslim terror-minded fanatic as an excuse to carry out the Muslim terror-minded fanaticism longer, farther and even more focused on anti-Americanism.
Potatoes-potahtoes?
More: insightful. The deaths and injuries at Soleimani’s funeral procession show how savage, how barbaric, how filled with hate and anger and viciousness, America’s enemies in the Middle East are, at root. We shouldn’t forget that.
No matter how many of those on the left want to pretend America and Iran and the terrorist regimes of the Middle East are all one and the same on the scale of moral equivalencies — we shouldn’t forget the truth. Here in America we grieve death, because we revere life; overseas, our enemies glorify death, because they don’t respect life. You can see it in their funerals. And that makes all the savage difference.
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55 Comments
4 years ago
Why is this “sad news”? We didn’t have to spend a dime of taxpayer’s money to eliminate more people who shout “Death to America”.
4 years ago
Reply to
Nick Danger
Authorities shot into crowds when people were reluctant to join the processions. Of the thousands who showed up for the event, many were there against their will after leaving compatriots behind shot, injured or dead.
4 years ago
Reply to
Mike
Exactly, I couldn’t care less what happened to these muslum vermin, I have no doubt these muslum vermin would like to see most everyone who posts comments to the gellerreport murdered by muslums and the gellerreport itself outlawed.
4 years ago
Reply to
Mike
What happened , did Domino’s show up there also with an armload of $30 pizzas as in Times Square on New Year’s?
4 years ago
Some may call the deaths of the true believers Divine Justice, I prefer to call it Karma.
4 years ago
Regime leaders (Supreme Leader, Khamenei) encourage worship by the masses they control.
4 years ago
They got so worked up about “Death to America” that they stampeded 56 of their own haters to death! Are we sure they aren’t Democrats?
4 years ago
To compare the members of the Westboro Baptist Church to f’ing muslums is an argument of false equivalence writ large. No one in the Westboro Baptist Church has advocated terrorism against the unbelievers in Christianity much less funded or took part in terrorism against anyone. Furthermore the Westboro Baptist Church has a congregation that doesn’t even number a hundred members much less BILLIONS. None of their members has advocated for installing a totalitarian theocracy either.
4 years ago
Just what you would expect from barbarian savages, living in the year 1020, when ordered by the clan leader… Curiously though, some other questions incur:
*How did our drone pilots know exactly where Soleimani was?
*How did they know what his plans were and where he was going?
*How did they know what car he was in?
Answer: Someone in Iran told them… I don’t think everybody was mourning.
4 years ago
Why would anyone want to allow more Muslims in the country? We should deport the ones here but I know that won’t happen the way things are now. We truly are a nation committing suicide, not just Muslims but all the other third world riffraff we allow. Muslims definitely are the worst but there are few immigrants that benefit us today.
4 years ago
Zero f’s gjven. Keep rioting. Meanwhile, get these cockroaches out out of the USA…..NOW! No doubt they will attack again but hopefully we will turn their sand pit to glass if that happens. We have had unbelievable restraint thus far..No more! Dont start nothin, there wont be nothin! Trump is not obamy or hilary and stands with & for the USA. Buckle up
4 years ago
Stampedes are very common in the Muslim world. Thousands die every year in Mecca from poor crowd control. Sheep dogs would help keeping them in line.
4 years ago
Reply to
Obamanation
I`m thinkin, machine guns. motion sensor controlled machine guns. if a muslim even wiggles, his ears, toodleloo,bye-bye,syonara.hasta la vista,baby.
4 years ago
Dead but still killing people.
The man has a singular talent.
4 years ago
Reply to
M Aurelius
I agree Marcus Aurelius was the best the Roman Empire had to offer (maybe not materially, as in conquest booty, or in terms of territory added to the empire) but as is usual w/any kind of dictatorship the transference of power is always problematic and Aurelius’ son turned out to be the all-too-typical, rotten, corrupt, narcissistic, imperial tyrant.
4 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
So what is your point, tw@T?
The man was a genius we still revere for his insight into human nature.
And he was ANYTHING but rotten.
4 years ago
Reply to
M Aurelius
I never said Aurelius was rotten, his son was (you know the guy who democratically became emperor after Aurelius because he was so highly qualified for the job) and so were most all Roman emperors incl. the Triumvirate who had Cicero assassinated.
4 years ago
Sounds like a good start to me.
4 years ago
We need to encourage more funerals for these brain-dead savages. It is like culling the herd. Gosh, they are so inbred and ill-educated that zombies would die of starvation in Iran.
4 years ago
I heard Supertramp was the opening act and covered Trampled Under Foot by Led Zeppelin.
4 years ago
Trumps rallies are bigger and more fun:)
Oh yeah…ezr 2 stay alive too.
4 years ago
Trumps rallies are bigger and more fun:)
Oh yeah…ezr 2 stay alive too.
4 years ago
ahhh that just hahahahaha breaks my heart hahaha
4 years ago
This happens every year on the Hadj to Mecca
4 years ago
The Dummycrats will soon be complaining about all the collateral damage.
4 years ago
50 dead and 213 injured, AWESOME!!!.
4 years ago
The world is slowly starting to learn what a bunch of savages Muslims are. Once the mainstream population is educated on Islam, then the pushback against Muslims will finally happen.
Sidenote, many Muslims consider it a privilege to die at Mecca (or a funeral) in a stampede. These people are really insane and they do love death more than life.
Too bad the Quran didn’t have one verse that said something like “after your 20th Ramadan, end your own life and be with Allah.” If only Islam could’ve been a suicide cult instead of a genocide cult, we’d all be much happier and Islam would’ve ended itself a long time ago.
4 years ago
Reply to
Ban Islam
Need only to correct that typo, ought to raise stock prices of post its. Get the correction printed onto a few billion, send them out as junk mail to every mosque on the planet.
4 years ago
Nope. In every known instance of islamic stampedes, it is we known that a shiite in some corner of the room would shout,”Free Pancakes and Beer! His next line, never delivered, was to be “And Sausage Biskits! Islum wilts in relief.
#Constitutional+Carry!
4 years ago
I bet there were NOT millions of them there….
4 years ago
That’s an high amount of deaths just to bury a finger. I wish it were a hand.
4 years ago
Ha ha The killing of this inbred General Muslim loser is the gift that keeps on giving..56 dead Muslims. Not bad????
4 years ago
Couldn’t have happened to a nicer group of admirers, but it goes to show that this scumbag continues to cause the death of people even after his own death.
4 years ago
How many deadly stampedes occur in America? It is the mass herd instincts of islamic training that makes them act like insects.
Too bad we couldn’t have sent omar there for the funeral stampede!
4 years ago
CRUSHED TO DEAD?? Great proofreading there. (It’s crushed to “death” BTW)
4 years ago
Has this been reported by MSM?
4 years ago
I am truly saddened by the number killed and injured. It should have been many more.
4 years ago
Technically speaking it was Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, who passed away in 2002 at over 100 years of age! Queen Elizabeth, the Queen of the UK is still alive!
The reality is that the Persians were an advanced civilization that were in some cultural areas superior to the ancient Greeks! What happened to this ancient people is indeed a commentary on Islam’s affect on human culture! Wow!
Also, there were pilots of the late Shah whose overthrow caused Iran to just go down the toilet to the abyss who still served the Islamic Republic of Iran after the Mullahs imprisoned them just for serving in the Shah’s Air Force in the Iran-Iraq War by attacking Iraqis which is a really sad commentary on the lack of basic, critical thinking skills modern Iranians have! These Iranian people have been stupified by Islam to the point they are like the Walking Dead zombies of the movies which is probably why they can just walk over their own people, killing them without normal human empathy? Israelis couldn’t do that which says it all about savages versus civilized people!
Again, I would say that in a perfect world, we Americans would involve Russia in negotiating a lowering of tensions in the region because the Iranians are really, generally, CRAZY and I’m sure the Russians know this! The Obama was ok with this kind of people having nuke technology of any kind and giving them any extra money? Think about that one folks! The George Soros-ian globalist banking clique in their support for Iran shows their kind of cultural standards too! Not good for civilized societies supported by me and you!
4 years ago
I would really to know how brutal these people are to the population. Do these “security” forces execute people out of hand? Torture along the lines of Pol-Pot, Mao and the Nazis? Has the younger generation in Iran been murdered and culled out or living in fear unable to react and just follow orders? Are they being starved to death?
