Arafat desert reverberated with anti-US, anti-Israel slogans during disavowal of pagans ceremony

The disavowal of pagans ceremony was held in the presence of thousands of Hajj pilgrims, including the Iranians, in the Arafat desert, some 20 kms southeast of Mecca, Saudi Arabia on Thursday.

During the ceremony, the pilgrims condemned recent insults to the holy Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) in the West.

The pilgrims chanted anti-US and anti-Zionist slogans during the ceremony also attended by the Supreme Leader’s representative for Hajj affairs, Hojatoleslam Ali Qazi-Asgar.

‘God is the Greatest’, ‘Death to Israel’, and ‘Death to America’, were among slogans chanted by the pilgrims.

Every year on the 9th of the lunar month of Dhu al-Hijjah (this year October 25) Iranians and other Hajj pilgrims attend the disavowal of pagans ceremony to condemn the anti-Islam approach of arrogant powers, especially that of the US.

The faithful – men clad in two-piece seamless white shrouds and women all covered except for their hands and faces to symbolize equality — converge on Arafat.

A message by Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei for the Hajj pilgrims was also read by Qazi-Asgar during the ceremony.