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...JAIN, RM BUMB read the signs on the shop stalls. Pitliya Jewellers has a table with a plastic washbasin filled with pearls. Jain families?members of an ascetic religious group that observes strict dietary rules?run the businesses; Muslims are the expert craftsmen. Later I notice a poster of Mecca in a workshop where four men facet lemon quartz in a weird green glow. Gauri Shankar Dangayach, production manager of one of Gem Palace's cutting units, leads De Taillac down several side streets with open gutters and into one of a dozen look-alike buildings...
...among the jihadists of al-Qaeda, denigrates Shiites as apostates. Within both Shiism and the Sunni tradition, however, there are a variety of different approaches to theological, legal and political questions, and they have coexisted for centuries. Members of both sects rub shoulders during the annual Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca...
...didn't take long to find out. At a meeting in the Muslim holy city of Mecca, leaders of the world's 57 Islamic countries issued a joint statement that "condemned the desecration" of the image of Muhammad. In late January an imam at the Grand Mosque of Mecca declared that "he who vilifies [the Prophet] should be killed." The Saudi government withdrew its ambassador to Denmark in late January as groups throughout the Middle East organized a boycott of Danish goods...
...BERNARD L. PARHARM CRIMSON STAFF WRITER Once upon a time, Harvard radio was a hip-hop Mecca. This past semester, a handful of students tried to bring back the glory. During the mid-1980s and early 1990s, the WHRB hip-hop department—known as “The Dark Side”—hosted “Street Beat,” one of college radio’s seminal rap programs. The show also spawned a campus newsletter by the same name, which later became one of the premier journals of hip hop culture...
...Bangs remembers the pioneering days of the late '70s when he struggled to convince expatriates and local hoteliers that the Zambezi was navigable: "It is hard to believe that the Zambezi has now become an adventure-sports Mecca." Livingstone might be surprised at the river's new activities, but no doubt he'd wholly approve of the spirit of adventure that informs them...