Hajj and Umrah News - South Africa

21 Nov 2019

Laying the ghost of 1979 to rest

In an interview conducted last year, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said that before the Iranian Revolution and the siege of Makkah rocked the Muslim world, “we were just normal people developing like any other country in the world until the events of 1979.”

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20 Nov 2019

How the 1979 siege of Makkah unfolded

Throughout October 1979, close to a million Muslims from around the world had flooded into Makkah for Hajj, the pilgrimage to the spiritual heart of Islam that every physically and financially able believer is obliged to complete at least once in their lifetime.

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