if you listened carefully to the BBC and other propaganda outfits, 1.8m was just the overseas registered visitors; then there were hundreds of thousands who couldn’t get registered (quotas apply to each country); then there were hundreds of thousands of Saudis.
unregistered didn’t get the air-conditioned tents or the bottles of water, etc.
mostly it was unregistered who died. no numbers could be verified. could be 50 dead for all anyone knows.
plenty are elderly making the visit as they near the end of their lives.
I should have stayed in the lodge
instead of going to this Hajj
But I listened to my Iman
who was continually chiming
You need to go to the Hajj
No reason for you to dodge
As I lie dying in this heat
with stinking breath and burning feet
the last words from my lips
Did Mohammed really make this trip?
“...as they near the end of their lives”.
Nearer than they figured.