Something like that. Yeah?

(M)an: Dude! The stampede that claimed the lives of over one thousand pilgrims at Hajj this past September, was the result of the lack of gender segregation within the crowds that collided and crushed together.

(D)ude: Man! Gender segregation is not being implemented during Hajj? Why?

M: Dude! Family members are allowed to complete the pilgrimage together, hence, there is a long-standing tradition of having all the females precede the males in family units.  

D: Man! The women in a family are allotted the front of the line, while the men provide a shield from behind?

M: Dude! Yes! And therein lie troubles and tragedies. The family unit cannot guarantee complete protection for female members from being physically harassed by perpetrators in such masses, which leads to utter chaos and the inevitable collapsing of the crowd onto itself.   

D: Man! The solution is obvious, to implement a separation of the genders during Hajj. And I’m speaking of what they’ve done in Austin, Texas malls. Remember the bathrooms in that outdoor shopping complex, the ones labeled male, female, and family?

M: Dude! Yes! That was an intelligent way of handling the transgender rights debate that sprang up in Houston, Texas and onto the ballot there this past spring. What was it? Neoconservatives arguing the specifics of gender reassignment versus identity at the time of birth, and the use of public facilities, specifically bathrooms?      

D: Man! Something like that. Yeah?

M: Dude! Why then cannot girls and women be divided from the boys and men during Hajj and Umrah?

D: Man! Why not? And what’s Umrah?

M: Dude! Hajj is the annual pilgrimage to Mecca made by Muslims at least once in their lives if they can afford to make the journey without putting financial strain upon themselves, which falls on the last month of the lunar Islamic Calendar, specifically the eighth to the twelfth/sometimes thirteen of Dhu al-Hijjah, or “the Month of the Pilgrimage”…The Gregorian Calendar that we’re accustomed to is not lunar, therefore there is a difference of eleven days between the Islamic and Gregorian calendars.      

D: Man! Lunar and non-lunar? Islamic and Gregorian?

M: Dude! The Gregorian Calendar is eleven days longer than the Islamic Calendar. And going back to what Umrah is, it is literally the “lesser pilgrimage” to Mecca and can be made at other times of the year, whereas the Hajj is time sensitive. Speaking of time sensitivity, Saudi Arabia clerics need to reevaluate the timing of Hajj in 2016.

D: Man! How come?

M: Dude! Hajj in 2016 will fall on September the eleventh, exactly fifteen years after the horrific 9/11/01 attacks in New York City. Again, Muslim clerics need to be vigilant of all havoc-generating activities and actors during Hajj 2016.   

D: Man! You want to know my take on the Tel Aviv, Israel attack and why the United States Congress is creating havoc with allegations about President Obama’s administration spying on Netanyahu? That’s because the only real threat facing Netanyahu and the world right now are the neoconservative Republicans and Teabag Democrats like Howard Dean and Debbie Wasserman Schultz. The neoconservatives in the United States Congress as led by Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan are elevating toxicity across the country by remaining unresponsive to long-term climate disaster relief while municipal neocon politicians pocket funds originally allocated for infrastructure and welfare.

M: Dude! Did you see the port-a-potty fallen on its side on Westridge Avenue, near the Ridglea Country Club? Fort Worth, Texas is in shambles. George Prescott Bush prides in telling people he’s a resident of Fort Worth, and he is the Texas Land Commissioner, but where does he live? The roads and bridges available to those of us who do not have the finances to utilize the toll roads, are torn up. The Chisholm Trail toll road, however, is decorated with these huge Vince Lombardi Trophy-like sculptures and grass that is maintained, while all the other roads—leading the rest of us to destinations in twice or thrice the time—are rigged with potholes and dangerously uneven tread and allergy-laden spruces coming out of the overgrown greens.    

D: Man! Howard Dean’s 50 State Strategy is being utilized by the Republican Party for 2016 and Debbie Wasserman Schultz is underhandedly giving away confidential campaign strategies to the Republican Party through carefully timed breaches. And, get this, the campaign strategies being disclosed were carefully designed and implemented by the grassroots-led Organizing for America, the true Democratic revolutionaries, not the members of the Democratic National Committee! Howard Dean confessed—to the Morning Joe panel on MSNBC on Tuesday, December 28, 2015—to being the mastermind behind the 6-debate schedule for the Democratic presidential contenders.  

M: Dude! It’s much worse! Jeb Bush and Hillary Rodham Clinton are making Donald J. Trump a recruitment tool for terrorist organizations themselves. Jeb Bush and Hillary Rodham Clinton have a lot to gain fiscally in a Bush 45 presidency, both being in the top 2% of the population that will see even more tax breaks and relief under another pseudo-presidential puppet controlled by Dick Cheney et al.

D: Man! America needs Bernie Sanders and Martin O’Malley to speak up and against such savageries of the top two-percent. And Hillary Rodham Clinton’s breaking point politically begins where she doesn’t agree with having all young adults qualify for tuition-free education at state colleges and universities. Rodham Clinton presumes that all young adults from the top two percent of households in the United States have access to their guardians’ checkbooks, a presumption that could not be farther from the truth. Not all children of the top two percent are as nestled as Chelsea Clinton. Some are outright manipulated and harangued by their parents and/or guardians.

M: Dude! Did you hear that Marshall Bruce Mathers’—or better known as the rapper Eminem— daughter got a full scholarship to Michigan State University?

D: Man! Eminem’s daughter carried out a deliberate rebellion. It’s time for American voters to make the deliberate decision to elect their officials, not fall prey to the far-right coming into power as a direct consequence of their disillusionment and disengagement.