Bushra Shah, a 35-year-old Pakistani, says she is realizing a childhood dream by making the great pilgrimage to Mecca – and, under new rules, she’s doing it without a male “guardian.” The hajj ministry has officially allowed a woman of any age to make the pilgrimage without a male relative, known as a mehrem, on […]
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Arab humiliation and the Temple Mount
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