{"id":304,"date":"2010-11-16T11:38:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-16T11:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/2010\/11\/muslims-celebrate-hajj-eid-2010.html"},"modified":"2010-11-16T11:38:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-16T11:38:00","slug":"muslims-celebrate-hajj-eid-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2010\/11\/muslims-celebrate-hajj-eid-2010.html","title":{"rendered":"Muslims Around the World Celebrate Hajj Pilgrimage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Between 2 and 3 million Muslims have converged on Mecca, Saudi Arabia, for this year&#8217;s annual hajj &#8212; the pilgrimage to Islam&#8217;s holy city, birthplace of the Prophet Muhammad. (Only Muslims allowed.)&nbsp;Around the world, the event culminates with today&#8217;s Eid al-Adha celebration.<\/p>\n<p>Some links:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/11\/16\/AR2010111601226.html?wprss=rss_religion\/wires\">Muslim hajj pilgrims perform devil stoning ritual <\/a>(Washington Post)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/religionclause.blogspot.com\/2010\/11\/president-sends-eid-greetings-and.html\">President sends Eid greetings and wishes Hajj pilgrims well <\/a>(Religion Clause)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2010\/nov\/16\/eid-billion-muslims-celebrate\">Hajj rituals test Saudi Arabian authorities <\/a>(The Guardian)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/uk.reuters.com\/article\/idUKTRE6AF2HK20101116\">Mob in Athens abuses Muslims as they celebrate Eid <\/a>(Reuters)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Share your thoughts, and related links,&nbsp;in the Comments section below.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">*<a href=\"http:\/\/feedburner.google.com\/fb\/a\/mailverify?uri=beliefnet\/beliefbeat\">Click here to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong>subscribe to Belief Beat<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/strong><\/a>and<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/beliefbeat\">click here to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong>follow Belief Beat on Twitter.<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Between 2 and 3 million Muslims have converged on Mecca, Saudi Arabia, for this year&#8217;s annual hajj &#8212; the pilgrimage to Islam&#8217;s holy city, birthplace of the Prophet Muhammad. 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Some links: Muslim hajj pilgrims perform devil stoning ritual (Washington Post) President sends&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Muslims Around the World Celebrate Hajj Pilgrimage - Belief Beat<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2010\/11\/muslims-celebrate-hajj-eid-2010.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Muslims Around the World Celebrate Hajj Pilgrimage - Belief Beat\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Between 2 and 3 million Muslims have converged on Mecca, Saudi Arabia, for this year&#8217;s annual hajj &#8212; the pilgrimage to Islam&#8217;s holy city, birthplace of the Prophet Muhammad. 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