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{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)In August 1987 the Iranian demonstrations on the pilgrimage escalated one further and fatal step. Excited Iranians paraded through Mecca proclaiming 'God is great! Khomeini is leader!' violating Islamic tradition by carrying knives and sticks beneath their pilgrim towels, according to Egyptian pilgrims who managed to escape the massacre that followed. A total of 275 Iranians, 85 Saudis, and 42 pilgrims of other nationalities were killed, most of them trampled to death in the pileup that resulted from the attempts by the Ministry of the Interior Special Forces to check the demonstration, which had been called by Mehdi Karrubi, Ayatollah Khomeini's personal representative in Mecca. The Saudi government refused to condemn their soldiers' actions. ... Khomeini responded with fury. He denounced the House of Saud as murderers and called on all loyal Shia in the Kingdom to rise up and overthrow them.
They are called the Raafidhah because they rejected the leadership of Zayd ibn 'Alee ibn al-Husayn, ...
They are called the Raafidhah because they rejected the leadership of Zayd ibn 'Alee ibn al-Husayn, ...