Posted on 10/14/2013 9:08:13 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey
About two million Muslims from around the world prayed at a desert hill in Saudi Arabia on Monday, joined in their faith and desire to purify their souls at the start of the annual hajj pilgrimage.
It is here on Mount Arafat, marked by a white pillar, where Islam's Prophet Mohammed is believed to have delivered his last sermon to tens of thousands of followers some 1,400 years ago, calling on Muslims to unite.
(Excerpt) Read more at haaretz.com ...
But Indo-European countries have it, or countries that had Irani roots (like Kazakhstan, Tajikistan) even Hayastan (the Armenian name for Armenia)
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