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...Yesterday Moslems from throughout the world converged upon Mecca, to fulfill the fifth pillar of the Islamic faith, a pilgrimage to the holy city. The following article describes their journey...
...permutation has long since washed back across the Hudson, it was only last year that consenting New Yorkers were once again permitted to play the pins in public. Similar bans on pinball were decreed in Los Angeles and, of all places, Chicago, which is the Detroit-some, say the Mecca-of | that addictive, kinetic pastime. In those cities, as well, the pins have only in recent years returned from exile. Their return has been Napoleonic...
What has all the Arab countries jittery, especially Saudi Arabia, is that during the next few months millions of Muslims will be making the pilgrimage to the holy shrine in Mecca. Cholera has already appeared near Medina on one of the routes followed by the faithful coming from as far away as Indonesia and the Indian subcontinent, where cholera is endemic. (Israeli authorities have arranged with Jordan to cooperate in the immunization of 5,000 Muslims living in Israel or occupied territories who will be making the pilgrimage.) Arab governments are so concerned that this week they will hold...
Most of the film's three-hour length is taken up with a camel's-pace exposition of the troubles encountered by the Prophet's disciples when their monotheism threatened the economic health of Mecca, which in the 7th century A.D. was in the graven-image business-attracting pilgrims to the shrines of some 300 local gods. The tortures, exiles and triumphs of the Prophet's followers are accompanied by much pacifistic blather-at least in the version for infidels. The intent is to counteract the Western belief that Islam is a faith that comes bearing...
...expected to instruct members in the Koran and the Bible. At "temples," renamed "mosques," the seats have been ripped out so that members can prostrate themselves during prayer. Wallace also stresses such traditional "pillars" of observance as the month-long fast of Ramadan, the five daily prayers while facing Mecca, and the Hajj (pilgrimage...