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- Dec 13, 2013
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You can learn something every day, like this amazing knowledge I learned last night.
In 1674, according to Johann Ludwig Burckhardt, someone smeared the Black Stone with excrement so that "every one who kissed it retired with a sullied beard". The Shi'ite Persians were suspected of being responsible and were the target of curses from other Muslims for centuries afterwards, though explorer Sir Richard Francis Burton doubted that they were the culprits; he attributed the act to "some Jew or Greek, who risked his life to gratify a furious bigotry."
Yes that black stone. Probably the most holy relic in all of Islam.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Stone