[lbo-talk] The Price of Progress: Transforming Islam's Holiest Site

[sharif islam]

On 3/8/07, Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>
> --- Yoshie Furuhashi <critical.montages at gmail.com>
> wrote: The spot is also the place
> > Muslims are expected
> > to visit at least once in their lives.
> >
>
> I don't know much about it, but believing Muslims in
> the USSR (who couldn't make the Haj, obviously) came
> up with ways of getting around the commandment.
>
>
The pilgrimage is for those who are able (this means financial and physical
capabilities).

--sharif

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