Word: mecca
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...been stranded, hungry, thirsty and freezing in their white cotton robes and sandals. Their plight was largely a result of Rahman's incompetence: his staff had failed to fill out the necessary paperwork for two Saudi jumbo jets to land at Kabul and whisk the pilgrims off to Mecca...
...Fairweather Muslim Harold B. Mackey ’05, who once prayed to Mecca, ate a hot dog and drank a beer on the first day of Ramadan, decided to go vegetarian this semester. “I just want to cleanse my body and mind,” Mackey said. After the first day of class, he smoked an entire eighth of an ounce of marijuana, ate three plates of boneless spareribs from the Kong and passed out in a pool of pork juices. “Allah doesn’t really see everything, right...
...Qaeda with money, men and serious theological underpinnings. Saudi Arabia is a vast country in which local tribal leaders can be wooed and bought, as in Afghanistan. In Saudi Arabia, where a constant stream of tens of thousands of foreigners from all over the world legitimately makes pilgrimages to Mecca, foreign Arab terrorists don't stick out. Would a relatively weak Saudi government crack down on a rich, highly organized and entrenched terrorist group staunchly supported by the Saudi people? And would the U.S. strike a country that supplies 18% of its oil? GERRY FELDMAN East Brunswick...
...fitting if the next great reform of Islam came from the diaspora in the West. After all, the starting point of the Muslim calendar is not the year of Muhammad's birth but the day 1,379 years ago when the Prophet led his followers from his birthplace in Mecca to found a new community in Medina. "The very foundation of Islamic civilization was built on diaspora, on the move from Mecca to Medina," says British Muslim writer Sardar. "This is where the diaspora is very important: in creating a truly moderate tradition for the future." The new diaspora...
...time. Her pop culture references, her allusions to style, her grasp of what’s hot, what’s hip and what is totally passé, is honed to the sharpest perception. For advice on men and clothes, people flock to Jenn like pilgrims to Mecca. But, her style is so accented by a clear intelligence, that questions about Louis Vuitton are left by the wayside as Jenn’s peers listen to her theories on poverty, society and classism. William Julius Wilson, the world’s authority on race and poverty is Jenn?...