Word: mecca
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jammed to overflowing, Manhattan's Mecca Temple rocked with thunderous mass cheers as Zionist Mordecai Danzis shouted: "If necessary we will recruit Jewish legions to reclaim Palestine! Tens of thousands will volunteer...
...recently stopped such immigration.) Arabs have no share in the government. Taxes have become unbearable. Jews have caused financial depression. Jews have no rights, only tolerance, at the Wailing Wall -it is an integral part of Al Bouraq el Shareef (built on the Temple site), most sacred mosque after Mecca and Medina; Mohammed once tied his horse to the Wailing Wail. . . . So said the Grand Mufti...
Happy is the Mohammedan who dies on a pilgrimage to Mecca. His soul ascends with a special sanctity to paradise. On such a soul the sloe-eyed houris lavish sweetest sweetmeats, coyest caresses, deepest delights...
Therefore last week when the creaking old Fabre liner Asia burned to her water line in the Red Sea harbor of Jidda, out of some thousand pious Mecca pilgrims, 112 shrewd Mohammedans who knew a good thing when they saw it, refused absolutely to leave the ship, knelt on the burning deck, died in an agony of expectation. The few Occidental passengers, the crew and the remaining pilgrims were rescued by harbor craft, but the Asia, on which many a U. S. citizen has sailed from Manhattan to the Near East, burned for a total loss...
...cruelly murdered Christians and destroyed great Christian Carthage in 698 A.D. Nonetheless, the visitors, including 1,000 from the U. S., swarmed over the countryside to see the sights. Silently vexed were Moslems when the visitors trooped through nearby Qairw?n, a Moslem pilgrimage centre almost as sacred as Mecca and Medina, buying nicknacks and souvenirs. But Tunisian wine merchants, beer dispensers, restaurateurs and shopkeepers stayed open for business 24 hours...