Cleric slams West for 'war against Islam'
More than two million Muslim pilgrims made the climactic ascent to Mount Arafat, Islam’s most sacred site, today to pray for salvation, and Saudi Arabia’s top cleric called for Islamic unity in the face of what he called the West’s war on Islam.
After offering prayers on the mount, tens of thousands of the faithful rushed down the hill to the Muzdalifah, a few miles distant, where they collected pebbles to use in one the last rituals of the hajj, the stoning of the devil.
