BERNARD SHAW, CNN ANCHOR: At a Hajj sermon in Mecca Thursday, hundreds of thousands of Muslim faithful heard a call from Sheikh Abdel Rahman Al-Sudais to shun what he called globalization represented by Western materialism. CNN's Riz Khan us following the pilgrimage and reports from Mecca.</s>RIZ KHAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The pilgrimage is winding up now, as the two million-plus people who've been out in the desert for a day make their way back into be Mecca to circle the Ka'bah, the stone structure in the center of the mosque, to bid God farewell and hope that their plea for forgiveness for wiping all their sins out has been accepted. There's the ritual sacrifice of a head of cattle as part of that. It actually is symbolic of when the prophet Abraham was asked by God to sacrifice his son Ishmael, according to the Islamic religion, Isaac according, obviously, to other places. They go on then from there to -- back to
Hajj Completed With Plea to Faithful to Shun Western Ways