If TED and TEDActive attendees are the earnest hippie parents obsessed with ideas, SXSW-goers are their punk Alex Keaton offspring preoccupied with more worldly concerns.

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It is a university of great professors, fascinating lectures and a warm hearted community that allowed us all to be free from the cares of worldly concerns, stature and wealth.

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Still, anyone who thinks that Muslims will be discouraged from making the haj is underestimating the appeal of a spiritual journey in which people forget their worldly concerns and share the hazards and joys of voyaging and praying with their co-religionists.

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