am. Below is barren desert, sand & mts. as far as the eye can see. It is a 2-engine Arabian Airlines plane. The trip is supposed to take one hour. We were served cookies (soft drink companies do a thriving business in the Muslim world because the people here are non-alcoholic; in fact; most of the non-European world is non-alcoholic). “Alcoholism seems to be a product primarily of European culture. The worst (most dangerous habit among the Arab Muslims) is cigarettes. They smoke constantly, even on the Hajj. It’s one of the evils that the Prophet Muhammad didn’t put a taboo on, but only
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