Word: hadj
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Khomeini has appointed Khoeyniha to direct Iran's mass hadj (pilgrimage) to Mecca, one of Islam's holiest rituals. His instructions: to foment agitation among the 2 million or so Muslims who will be flocking to Mecca in September. Khoeyniha will thus be Khomeini's agent to help promote the religious insurrection that the Ayatullah has vowed he will bring to Saudi Arabia and the other oil-rich gulf states. TIME has learned that Khomeini told Khoeyniha not to be intimidated by the more moderate clergymen among the estimated 100,000 Iranian pilgrims. "Disobedience to you," asserted...
...inevitable Alexis de Tocqueville called America une feuille blanche, a blank page, upon which history waited to be written. History has been scribbling away ever since. So have generations of traveling writers. It became a sort of religious obligation, like the Muslim hadj, for European journalists, geniuses and hacks to make their way to the New World and there test their sensibilities upon the peppy and savage Nova Zembla that interrupted Columbus on his way to the Orient...