hajj
The Mall of Mecca, or a New Era of Growth?
While the Hajj has been, since its inception and throughout history, a commercial endeavor as much as a religious endeavor, these recent changes offer an unsettling secularizing view of the holy cities where profit trumps spirituality. What does this mean for for one of Islam’s five essential pillars?
Eid Mubarak and Hajj Mabruk!
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The Boston Globe is at it again with their pictorial coverage of Islam’s most celebrated rituals! The traditional prerequisite shots of pilgrims circling the Kaaba creating a blurred photo-effect are augmented with plentiful photos of Muslims climbing to and praying at Mount Arafat, Noor Mountain Zamzam water collection systems, modernized campsite accommodations, Saudi military parade stills, and an inside view into a new light-rail metro line.
God Called On Him to Follow Britney Spears
Founder of 24-hour paparazzi-driven celebrity stalker service website, Hollywoodtv, proclaimed in a Nightline news interview on a story on “The Britney Economy”(prefaced by a fiercely uncool middle-aged, stiff, anchor intro-ing the story with the phrase “fo real”) that he was divinely inspired by God to follow Britney Spears. On a pligramige to Hajj, the British-born [...]
Pilgrims Go Home
Egypt today publicly (and abruptly) conceded the Dickhead of the Year 2007 Award to Israel. After refusing to allow Palestinian Hajj pilgrims to return home through the Rafah border crossing and demanding that they go through Israel, the Egyptian government relented after 7 days and allowed all those stranded to return home this afternoon. However, [...]
Dickheads of the Year 2007
There’s an interesting little competition going on at the Gaza-Egypt border, with three competitors (the Egyptian government, Israel and Abbasshole and Co.) in a tense, last-minute struggle for the title of 2007’s Dickheads of the Year (DOTY). With the Rafah crossing (the only border crossing available to most Gazan’s) closed since June, there were legitimate [...]
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