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Per
Feb 22, 2006
Hair Elf
Related to the Hajj, as I understand it wahhabism doesn't consider Shias to be True Muslims. Why then are they allowed into Mecca?

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Per
Feb 22, 2006
Hair Elf

Shbobdb posted:

My buddy who has been on Hajj twice says the whole experience is heavily ritualized, so doctrinal differences don't really matter. It's more of a beautiful coming together of Muslims from all over the world. Plus, walking through the desert is loving brutal and it takes a particular kind of rear end in a top hat to start a fight when they are that exhausted.

I get that part, I'm just wondering why the Saudi state lets them into Mecca/Medina in the first place. I mean, typically they don't want non-Muslims there, and if the Wahhabi clerics say Shias aren't muslims...

Per
Feb 22, 2006
Hair Elf
Would you like to try living in a Muslim-majority country like Egypt or Malaysia or wherever (for a while or permanently)?

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