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Archive Home > 2010 > March > 14 > Pilgrim non grata in Mecca wanting to learn a bit about Islam

Pilgrim non grata in Mecca wanting to learn a bit about Islam


March 14, 2010

I was tempted to turn my abaya into a black masquerade cloak and sneak into Mecca, just hop over the Tropic of Cancer to the Red Sea and crash the ultimate heaven’s gate.

Sir Richard Burton, the 19th-century British adventurer, translator of “The Arabian Nights” and the “Kama Sutra” and....

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