Muslim pilgrims stone wall and cut hair at haj
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MINA, Saudi Arabia  - Muslim pilgrims threw pebbles at a stone wall outside Mecca, shaved their heads and bought sacrificial animals on Wednesday, the third day of the annual haj pilgrimage to the Mecca area.
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More than two million Muslims stand on Mount Arafat for the high point of the annual Hajj pilgrimage.
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To the Editor: Each year, approximately 2 million Muslims travel from all over the world to participate in hajj.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Grief swept through the  airport of this tsunami-hit Indonesian city overnight when  hundreds of Acehnese Muslims returned from the annual Haj  pilgrimage to learn they had lost children, parents and homes  to the waves.
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Hundreds of thousands of Shiite Muslims clambered aboard buses or began trekking homeward on foot Saturday at the end of Ashoura, a 10-day ritual to cleanse the spirit and scourge the body in honor of their founding saint.
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COLOGNE, Germany -- On Muslim holidays, hundreds of faithful hoping to pray at the city's Ditib Mosque are forced to spread their prayer rugs in a nearby parking lot and follow the service on loudspeakers. The mosque holds only 600 people.
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Muslims gathered Sunday across the Bay Area to celebrate Eid, a holiday that commemorates the end of Ramadan, the month of fasting.
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Saudi Arabia's bearded religious police, who have been known to force men to cut their hair, are being re-trained to handle a potential influx of non-Muslim tourists, a government official said on Sunday.
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Hundreds of Palestinians were trying to reach a key Islamic shrine in Jerusalem on the first Friday of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
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NAJAF, Iraq  For centuries, the world&#39;s 120 million Shiite Muslims have revered the gold-domed mosque of Imam Ali bin Abi Talib named after the slain cousin and son-in-law of Islam&#39;s prophet Muhammad as a place of pilgrimage.
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Chanting, "Oh Allah I'm here," hundreds of thousands of pilgrims draped in white garments on Tuesday began to take part in rituals symbolizing the life of their 7th century prophet and streaming into the mammoth tent city of Mina.
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Muslims from around the world descended on Bangladesh on Friday for the annual Bishwa Ijtema (world congregation), the second biggest gathering of Muslims after the Haj, with troops and police maintaining tight security.
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ARAFAT, Saudi Arabia  - Muslim pilgrims poured on to the plain of Arafat east of Mecca on Tuesday as the sun rose over the rocky hills for the day marking the climax of the annual haj pilgrimage.
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InfoWorld - The millions of pilgrims in Mecca this week for the Hajj, an annual gathering of Muslims, can stay connected thanks to a temporary Wi-Fi mesh network covering a large part of the city.
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MECCA, Saudi Arabia  - As the annual pilgrimage opens in the Muslim holy city of Mecca on Monday, few first-time pilgrims say they are entirely free of anxiety and confusion about the rituals they must perform.
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Shuffling slowly but smoothly, huge crowds of people hurled pebbles Thursday at pillars representing Satan, symbolically stoning the devil in a final ritual of their pilgrimage, while Muslims at the hajj and around the world slaughtered sheep, cows and camels to mark the Feast of the Sacrifice holiday.
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ARAFAT, Saudi Arabia  - Millions of Muslim pilgrims spent the afternoon on the plain of Arafat east of Mecca on Tuesday at the peak of the annual haj pilgrimage.