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...estimated 2.1 million pilgrims, known as hajjis, moved in a smooth procession yesterday in groups of 100,000 to the Plain of Arafat six miles from Mecca...
Police with rifles, on foot and in cars, flanked the 157,000 Iranians while military helicopters chuffed overhead, residents of the area reported. Police planned to guard the Iranians while the pilgrims camped overnight on the plain in preparation for the culmination today of the hajj, or Moslem pilgrimage...
Pilgrims go to the Plain of Arafat, hallowed for its ties to Abraham, because of the injunction in the holy Koran: "And proclaim unto mankind the hajj. They will come unto thee on foot and on every lean camel, from every deep ravine...
...culmination of the pilgrimage, each hajji "stones the devil," flinging seven pebbles at each of the three "devil pillars" on the plain. Pilgrims then return to Mecca, where they end the hajj...
...plenty of people who don't think atheists are damned to Hell, yet who don't dismiss God's relevance to the world. These are not the Moral Majority--the Moral Majority wouldn't consider them moral. But then again, many atheists would consider them deluded, misguided or just plain silly. Although they're harder to see and hear, these people are proably the majority. And their belief in God should receive the respect accorded to the other points of view. Although they are less flamboyant, their believe is just as strong...