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Over 1,300 people have died making the trip to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, as temperatures soar around the world.
None of the flight’s passengers or crew were injured in the chilling incident, and passengers, who were headed to the Hajj, were boarded onto a new flight later Wednesday.
He wanted her to have a place in heaven, even though she was Supreme Governor of the Church of England. Saudi authorities decided otherwise.
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The Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca—the holiest city for Muslims—is taken by millions of devout followers every year.
The crackdown was met with outrage and cries of hypocrisy.
The CDC is holding 10 fliers who fell ill during a long trip from the UAE. One factor health officials may be watching: a flu outbreak among the millions on the hajj to Mecca.
Every Muslim is supposed to make the pilgrimage to Mecca, but Parvez Sharma discovered the hard way that this dirty, noisy, and nearly lethal trek was more hell than heaven.
Like the other two monotheisms that precede it, Islam has blood on its hands.
From Pope Francis in America to Mecca’s pilgrim masses, the most compelling images from the past seven days.
Thursday’s killing of more than 700 is a tragic reminder of Saudi Arabia’s dangerous exploitation of the Muslim pilgrimage. I should know—my baby and I were once nearly crushed, too.
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