MT. ARAFAT, Saudi Arabia — At sacred Mt. Arafat outside Mecca, 2 million Muslims prayed in the main ritual of the annual hajj, and then collected pebbles to use today in the symbolic stoning of three pillars that symbolize the temptations of the devil.
But Al Jazeera satellite television, the most popular station in the largely Arab Islamic Middle East, said Saudi authorities had barred it from the event.
